End Zone: Manhasset's Burns Had Open In Hand, But It All Went Wrong - Fashion News

For three splendid June days at Merion Golf Club in 1981, big George Burns, the pride of Manhasset, had passed them all. He had taken over the 54-hole Open scoring record set by Jack Nicklaus at Baltusrol the previous summer and would go to bed Saturday night with a three-shot lead.