Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-11
GREAT GOLF Shots
Examples, Good and Bad,
That Players Hold in Memory.
EDWARD RAYS FINE PLAY
Puts Made by Women That Have
Become Historical Events
of the Links.

the LONDON Sketch
In the course Of the season those who
watch big golf see some scores of shots
made that they think and talk about for
long afterward. They are all shots that
provoke comment and discussion. They
may be extremely good or very bad, r
peculiar in some way, but they are not
like the others.
Then one by one or in little patches
many Of these shots drop out of the
memory and the talk. When the season
Is dying there are even then but two or
three remaining. These select few live on
and IN and never will be forgotten.
The American championship and the
big professional affair in the early DAYS of
October may add something to the col
lection. The latter tournament has, to
the best of my belief. only produced one
shot that will live forever, and that was
that wonderful one that Braid did from
the bunker at the tenth at Sunningdale
when playing against the present cham
pion. Edward Ray, in the second round
nine years ago
Nine years. and the shot, as one might
say. is as young as ever. just like Fred
rats water shot at the Alps at Prest-
WICK. and HiltonS spoon shots to the sew
enteenth at st. Andrews. which will
never have gray hairs upon them. Re-
versing the process that is killing all us
humans, these great strokes Of golf get
younger and younger as time passes by.
Best Shot of the Year.
There is no doubt as to what is the best
shot in great golf of the year. and moth
ing that can happen at Sunningdale or
wheaton, L. S. A.. can rob it of dis
tinction. 1t is crowned already-that re-
markable shot played by Edward Ray. .e
champion, to the eleventh hole at Muir
field in the third round Of the champion
ship. 1t was his second. played with his
driver, and he was SO situated that the
most useful shot he could play was a
long one with a little Slice
BUT the playing. especially from the
rough lie that he had and the situation
of the hazards round the green. was in
numbered with many perils. Ray, how
ever. did it as only a champion can; he
hit the ball from the heel of his club and
sent 1t soaring to the left until 1t over
hung bunker there; then just before ii
dropped 1t turned round toward the
green and Topped down lifeless only
:even yard from the pin. Nobody who
s-w it will ever forget that shot.
There was another played by Ray
which refuses to get out Of mind for the
time being and that was not a good one.
1t was when playing to the eighth hole in
his last round that he just smacked the
ball on the top and sent it auttering like
a wounded bird only little way on. 1
suppose / shall never forget the Ameri-
can McDermott putting those three balls
over the wall at the seventh hole at the
same meeting, and l still remember
James Braid taking four puts on the
home green. and the Hon. Michael Scott
and Laurence Ayton hammerfng away
for an unconsciOnable time in the big
bunker in front of that same green.
Those are the shots of Muirfield from
which the final historical selection viii
ladies that will live for long time. |
recall three that are as fresh i'm mind
as when they were made There was
Miss Ravenscrofts reaching the NTH
green in the championship at Turnberrs
i'm two shots easily made, but the other
three things that I remember are putt.
at which the ladies have done as well
this year as any man I have seen.
That Wonderful Three.
There was that wonderful :; that Miss
Rayenscroft got in the semi-final against
Miss Cecil Leitch at the eleventh hole
f;:3O vards). as the result of running
down long putt when her opponent had
inst succeeded with one of practically
the same length for 4. That was
magnificen: thing. And then i think
that the long one that Miss Leitch holed
OH the home green in the same match,
when her opponent was already dermie
one, and was a practically certain win
ner. was in the most depressing circum-
stances an effort quite heroic.
The other putt was that long curly one
that Miss Temple did on the fifteenth
green in the final. when she got at
a very long hole that nearly all who
read this page and the man who writes 1T
would be quite glad to do I'm as reg
ular thing. Somehow there were ex-
tremely few shots that stood out from the
others i'm the amateur championship at
Westward Ho.
There was a good deal of struggling
round about the ditch at the eighteenth.
but so much of il that ii became common.
and there was some great play. and some
horrible disasters. at the forest of PUSHES
at the tenth. to which the same remark
applies The shots that will be remem-
bered were one or two in the final. but
7 think il will be the four-foot putt that
Mr.. Mitchell missed OH the home green.
when. il he had made il. he would have
been champion. that will he longest re-
membered-longer than his ditch shot
at the hirty-eiehth hole. when he caught
the ball as it was falling back and gave
up the game as lost.