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==In popular culture== Snead was mentioned several times in the comic strip ''[[Peanuts]]'' at the height of his popularity during the 1950s<ref> *{{cite web |url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1954/05/16 |title=May 16, 1954 β Peanuts |work=gocomics.com}} *{{cite web |url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/06/01 |title=June 1, 1955 β Peanuts |work=gocomics.com}}</ref> and 1960s.<ref> *{{cite web |url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1960/09/08 |title=September 8, 1960 β Peanuts |work=gocomics.com}} *{{cite web |url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/07/12 |title=July 12, 1962 β Peanuts |work=gocomics.com}} *{{cite web |url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/04/25 |title=April 25, 1963 β Peanuts |work=gocomics.com}} *{{cite web |url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/05/06 |title=May 6, 1963 β Peanuts |work=gocomics.com}} *{{cite web |url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1968/04/10 |title=April 10, 1968 β Peanuts |work=gocomics.com}}</ref> As its creator and avid golfer [[Charles M. Schulz]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,898627-10,00.html |title=Comics: Good Grief |magazine=Time |date=April 9, 1965}}</ref> said in a 1971 interview: "I was a great admirer of Sam Snead. I once watched him play a round in the St. Paul tournament when he hit every green in regulation figures β and all the par fives in two β for a truly flawless round."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMlJTPWp6O0C&dq=SNEAD&pg=PA71 |title=Charles M. Schulz: Conversations |editor-first=M. Thomas |editor-last=Inge |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2000 |page=71|isbn=978-1-57806-305-5 }}</ref> He played himself in the 1951 Ben Hogan semi-autobiographical movie starring Glenn Ford and Anne Baxter called ''[[Follow the Sun (film)|Follow the Sun]].''<ref>{{cite web |title=Follow the Sun |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043550/ |website=IMDb |access-date=August 25, 2024}}</ref> There is a Sam Snead Street in [[San Antonio|San Antonio, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Merrisa |date=30 September 2014 |title=San Antonio street names and groupings |url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/slideshow/San-Antonio-street-names-and-groupings-94695.php |website=mysanantonio.com}}</ref> There is also a Sam Snead Dr in on the east side of [[El Paso, Texas]].
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