In 1947, he won the U.S. Open by defeating Sam Snead in an 18-hole playoff at the St. Louis Country Club in Clayton, Missouri after the two men had finished tied at 282 in regulation.
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That same year he won the first golf tournament to be broadcast nationally in the United States and golf's first $100,000 tournament, the Tam O'Shanter World Championship of Golf, in spectacular fashion.
While Chandler Harper was being declared the winner for the television audience, they saw Lew Worsham use a wedge to hit an eagle from 104 yards for an unexpected win.
Lew Wallace | Lew Grade | Lew Ayres | Lew Tabackin | Lew Irwin | Lew Hoad | Lew Brown | Jack Lew | Lew Stone | Lew Pollack | Lew Christensen | Lew Burdette | Richard Beebe in the original line-up of '''Lew Irwin and The Credibility Gap''' (left to right): John Gilliland | Lew Perkins | LEW Hennigsdorf | Lew Hayman | Lew Dockstader | Lew Cody | Elizabeth Van Lew | River Lew | Peter Lew | Michael Lew | Lucky Lew | Lew Worsham | Lew Stringer | Lew Sapieha | Lew Rywin | Lew Lewis | Lew Leslie | Lew Lehr |