Editing Sam Snead (section)

===Personal life===
Born in [[Ashwood, Virginia]], near [[Hot Springs, Virginia|Hot Springs]], Snead began caddying at age seven at [[The Homestead (Hot Springs, Virginia)|The Homestead]]'s Old Course in Hot Springs. He worked as an assistant pro at The Homestead at 17 in 1929, then moved to the Cascades Course and turned professional in 1934.<ref name=mapga/> During the depression, Snead taught himself the game of golf from a set of clubs carved from tree limbs. Snead joined the PGA Tour in 1936 and achieved immediate success by winning the West Virginia Closed Pro tournament.

In 1936 he won two matches at the [[Meadow Brook Golf Club|Meadow Brook Club]], earning a $10,000 prize. This gave him the money he needed to start playing professionally full-time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Moss |first=Richard J. |title=The Kingdom of Golf in America |page=188 |date=June 1, 2013 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-4680-5 |lccn=2012047430 |oclc=841906541}}</ref> In 1944 he became resident playing professional at [[The Greenbrier]] Resort in [[White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia]], and maintained ties to Hot Springs and The Homestead all of his life. During the winter, he was a resident playing pro at the [[Boca Raton Resort]] from 1956 to 1969.<ref name=mmay>{{cite news |url=http://www.gogolfandtravel.com/florida-historic-golf-trail/boca-raton-resort |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708232552/http://www.gogolfandtravel.com/florida-historic-golf-trail/boca-raton-resort |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 8, 2019 |publisher=Go Golf and Travel |title=Golf @ The Boca Resort: Living, Breathing History |first=Mike |last=May}}</ref> Each spring he returned to the Mid-Atlantic, stopping at The [[Masters Tournament]] on his way back to The Greenbrier.

Snead served in the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]] from 1942 to 1944.<ref name="Gettinto">{{cite book |title=Gettin' to the Dance Floor: An Oral History of American Golf |author-link=Al Barkow |first=Al |last=Barkow |year=1986 |publisher=Atheneum |location=New York |isbn=978-0-689-11517-2 |lccn = 85047660|oclc=42892255}}</ref> He was an athletic specialist in Cmdr. [[Gene Tunney]]'s program in [[San Diego]], and was given a medical [[Military discharge#United States|discharge]] for a back injury in September 1944.<ref name=ssgmd>{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p5ExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yU4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3860,1762916 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |agency=Associated Press |title=Sam Snead discharged from navy |date=September 13, 1944 |page=6}}</ref>

Snead appeared as himself in an episode of ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]'', "The Colonel Breaks Par", in 1957.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Colonel Breaks Par |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0674174/ |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>

His nephew, [[J. C. Snead]], was also a successful professional golfer, winning tournaments on both the [[PGA Tour]] and the [[Champions Tour]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vshfm.com/hall/induct_jcsnead.html|title=Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Inductees Class of 2003|access-date=March 15, 2010|archive-date=November 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130135629/http://vshfm.com/hall/induct_jcsnead.html}}</ref>