Huck Finn in a hat. Mark Twain would have loved him. Sam Snead, coonskin golfer. We shall not see his like again. A legend past his time.

Sam Snead was a perfect foil for Ben Hogan ... like in the dust and dirt of Fort Worth, Texas. Snead wore the straw fedora hat and was outgoing, a hillbilly boy from the Blue Ridge Mountains ...

Sam Snead could not have been more courteous or generous to a kid reporter. We met inside the Eldorado locker-room where Sam was still wearing the chip-straw hat he used to conceal his premature ...

BBC golfing commentator Peter Alliss paid tribute to Sam Snead, labelling him one of the most graceful athletes of the last century in any sport. Alliss, whose father played against Snead in the Ryder ...