 Turnesa displaced Snead as the oldest PGA champion to date, at 39 years and six months.He was later passed by Jerry Barber at 45 in 1961 and Julius Boros in 1968 at age 48.Battling an ailing back, defending champion Snead lost in the first round to Lew Worsham, who had defeated him in a playoff five years earlier at the 1947 U.S. Open.