Exempt status

• PGA TOUR: Deceased

Personal

• An all-around athlete, he played center on his Valley High School basketball team, was a pitcher and outfielder on the baseball team and a halfback during football season. He was a self-taught golfer, learning the game by playing with "clubs" he fashioned from tree limbs.
• Got his start in the game as a caddie at The Homestead at age 7.
• His wife, Audrey, died in 1990.
• His nephew, J.C. Snead, is a long-time PGA TOUR and Champions Tour player.
• Was named the fourth recipient of the PGA TOUR's Lifetime Achievement Award, given in 1998.
• Was the author of two best-selling books, How to Play Golf (1946) and The Education of a Golfer (1962).
• Appeared uncredited as himself in the 1951 movie "Follow the Sun" about the life of Ben Hogan and was also in the 1953 motion picture "The Caddy."

Special Interests

• Fishing, hunting

PGA TOUR Victories (82)

• 1936 West Virginia Closed Pro
• 1937 Oakland Open, Bing Crosby Pro-Am, St. Paul Open, Nassau Open, Miami Open
• 1938 Bing Crosby Pro-Am, Greater Greensboro Open, Inverness Invitational, Palm Beach Round Robin, Chicago Open, Canadian Open, Westchester 108 Hole Open, White Sulphur Springs Open
• 1939 St. Petersburg Open, Miami-Biltmore Four-Ball, Miami Open
• 1940 Inverness Invitational Four-Ball, Canadian Open, Anthracite Open
• 1941 Bing Crosby Pro-Am, St. Petersburg Open, North & South Open Championship, Canadian Open, Rochester Times Union Open, Henry Hurst Invitational
• 1942 St. Petersburg Open, PGA Championship
• 1944 Portland Open, Richmond Open
• 1945 Los Angeles Open, Gulfport Open, Pensacola Open Invitational, Jacksonville Open, Dallas Open, Tulsa Open
• 1946 Virginia Open, Jacksonville Open, Greater Greensboro Open, The Open Championship, World Championship of Golf, Miami Open
• 1948 Texas Open
• 1949 Greater Greensboro Open, Masters Tournament, PGA Championship, Washington Star Open, Dapper Dan Open, Western Open
• 1950 Los Angeles Open, Bing Crosby Pro-Am, Texas Open, Miami Beach Open, Greater Greensboro Open, Western Open, Colonial Invitational, Inverness Four-Ball Invitational, Reading Open, North & South Open Championship, Miami Open
• 1951 PGA Championship, Miami Open
• 1952 Masters Tournament, Palm Beach Round Robin, Inverness Round Robin Invitational, All American Open, Eastern Open
• 1953 Baton Rouge Open
• 1954 Masters Tournament, Palm Beach Round Robin
• 1955 Greater Greensboro Open, Palm Beach Round Robin, Insurance City Open, Miami Open
• 1956 Greater Greensboro Open
• 1957 Palm Beach Round Robin, Dallas Open Invitational
• 1958 Dallas Open Invitational
• 1960 De Soto Open Invitational, Greater Greensboro Open
• 1961 Tournament of Champions
• 1965 Greater Greensboro Open

International Victories (6)

• 1940 Ontario Open [Can]
• 1941 Center Open [Arg]
• 1948 Havana Invitational [Cuba]
• 1952 Brazilian Open
• 1954 Panama Open
• 1961 World Cup [indiv]

Additional Victories (42)

• 1937 West Virginia Open
• 1938 West Virginia Open
• 1940 Ontario Open
• 1941 St. Augustine Pro-Am [with Wilford Wehrle]
• 1942 St. Augustine Pro-Am [with Wilford Wehrle]
• 1948 West Virginia Open
• 1949 North and South Open
• 1949 National Celebrities Open
• 1949 West Virginia Open
• 1952 West Virginia Open, Greenbrier Pro-Am
• 1952 Greenbrier Pro-Am
• 1952 Julius Boros Open
• 1952 Seminole Pro-Am, Julius Boros Open
• 1953 Orlando International Mixed Best-Ball [with Betty MacKinnon]
• 1953 Greenbrier Pro-Am
• 1955 McNaughton Pro-Am
• 1956 World Cup [with Ben Hogan]
• 1956 Boca Raton Open
• 1957 West Virginia Open
• 1958 West Virginia Open
• 1958 Greenbrier Invitational
• 1959 Sam Snead Festival
• 1959 El Dorado Professional [tie, with Doug Ford]
• 1960 West Virginia Open
• 1960 World Cup [with Arnold Palmer]
• 1961 West Virginia Open
• 1961 Sam Snead Festival
• 1961 World Cup [with Jimmy Demaret]
• 1962 Royal Poinciana Plaza Invitational
• 1962 World Cup [with Arnold Palmer]
• 1964 Haig & Haig Scotch Foursome [with Shirley Englehorn]
• 1964 World Senior Championship
• 1965 World Senior Championship
• 1966 West Virginia Open
• 1967 West Virginia Open
• 1968 West Virginia Open
• 1970 West Virginia Open
• 1971 PGA Club Professional Championship
• 1971 West Virginia Open
• 1972 West Virginia Open
• 1973 West Virginia Open
• 1936 West Virginia Open

National Teams

• 1937, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1959, 1955 Ryder Cup
• 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 World Cup
• 1951, 1959, 1969 Ryder Cup Captain

JOINED TOUR

• PGA TOUR: 1936