Byron Nelson was a contemporary of Snead's and winner of five Majors between 1937 and 1945.
This year Byron Nelson, for the final time, and Sam Snead, will carry out the honours.
It took the American to within seven victories of Sam Snead's record tally of 82.
Snead was the honorary starter at Augusta since 1983, including this year shortly after he suffered a mild stroke.
Sam Snead won the Greater Greensboro Open eight times from 1938 to 1965.
Carter Snead, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, said that he wasn't surprised by the deal.
Croquet-style putting, in which a player straddles the line of a putt, was nixed in 1968, much to Sam Snead's dismay.
Sam Snead shot 60 in the 1957 tournament at Glen Lakes Country Club, which at the time tied the PGA Tour record.
"He was the strongest and the fittest and the best competitor in his era, " said Faldo, a three time Masters winner like Snead.
However, victories in the last four singles matches by Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Ed Dudley and Henry Picard brought an end to British hopes.
Mr. Snead is professor of law and was recently appointed director of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame.
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For Woods it was a fourth tournament win of the year, one which moved him onto 78 PGA Tour wins, four off Sam Snead's record of 82.
While still a teenager, he saw Nelson, Sam Snead and Hogan each win the PGA Tour event in Dallas, and Hogan win the first Colonial Invitational, in 1946.
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It was his record seventh win at Bay Hill and gave him 72 career wins, trailing only Jack Nicklaus (73) and Sam Snead (83) on the all-time list.
"The good news is we've got 36 holes to go, " said Woods, who seeking to join Sam Snead as the only player to win the same tournament eight times.
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Even back in the '50s, rivals like Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead claimed there was more to Hogan's secret than he was letting on, and a cottage industry was born.
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He has won a tournament in 20 different years, including in 1991 as an amateur -- putting him behind only Sam Snead (24 years of wins) and Jack Nicklaus (21).
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The American is third in the all-time PGA Tour rankings in terms of career victories, with only Sam Snead (83) and Jack Nicklaus (73) having done better than his 71 successes.
While Snead needed 27 years to mark up those victories, Woods took just 13 -- nearly half the time -- to achieve the feat, having also managed to win three other tournaments on seven different occasions.
Woods became the first player since Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one season, while his nine Tour victories in one year in 2000 were also the most since Sam Snead won 11 in 1950.
But if Woods and McIlroy are to become truly great adversaries along the lines of Nicklaus-Tom Watson and Ben Hogan-Sam Snead then they can't afford to become too cosy, according to sports leadership expert Khoi Tu.
The previous oldest U.S. captain was the legendary Sam Snead, who was 57 when he oversaw his nation's retention of the trophy in 1969 -- made famous by Jack Nicklaus' concession of a match-equaling putt to Tony Jacklin.
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Yet apart from age (the Homestead opened in 1766), a Southern sensibility, sprawling grounds (3, 000 acres here), and a claim on the legacy of the late golf legend and local boy Sam Snead, the pair don't share many similarities.
During summers at the Homestead, you can opt for a meal in the formal dining room, head to Sam Snead's Tavern down the road, or do as most seem to: just hang out at the barbecue on the great lawn, mingling with your fellow guests.
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