In Golf Today, One Must Look at the Big Picture

Nice of you to find space for a small picture of Phil Mickelson (the guy who actually won) in your all-Tiger-all-the-time format! Enough already.

D.S ADAM

Newhall

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Byron Nelson’s string of 11 tournament victories is indeed an accomplishment, but it is overblown when you consider that a great many of the top pros at that time were in the armed forces--Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, to mention a couple.

AL MEYERS

Los Angeles

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Editor’s note: Snead and Hogan did serve in the military during World War II but both played tour events in 1945, the year of Nelson’s streak.