Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-27
EVANS TELLS Of
BEST SCORES IN
OLF|NC HISTORY.
Chick Says Each Club Should
Keep Record Of Remarkable
Plays by Members
Bv hick Evans.


r ness for collecting data and in
terestlng facts and souvenirs Of
clubs. balls with which great matches
have boon won. newspaper clippings
and pictures alI serve 10 recall
famous monuments in the history OF
Golf MANY time have | shown a
man The different shots that ! use
while a Stonocrapher has taken down
each stroke In detail as ! stood before
him
The other day most interesting
littie book came 10 my notice. II is a
very tins red leather-h bound volume
With the word Golf In gilt script
trailing carefully across the upper
left hand corner II belongs 70 -
scott Chisholm. well known golfer
II is collection 81 record scores or
memorable scores by the great play
cre of the world and II has already
Travelled three times across the At
lantic aud u viii probably make
many journeys more This little rec
ord Of The players at their best is a
pleasant IDEA. ! have always thought
there should he some way of pre-
serving these best scores for they
serve AS monuments 81 a certain line
~ action. / think a course record
should pc hung In prominent place
IN the clubhouse. and only destroyed
when new record has been made
In the case Of championship rounds
Of great importance II would be in
teresting TO see a little description Of
the weather ar the time they were
PLAYED and the score should be pre-
served whether q record or not
Evans Stars on Chicago Course.
9 a IL
n; Chicago Golf cub I'm July. 1912,
az the best eighteen holes ever
made. but the ~ ia the qualifying
round at Garden city last year per
hans, should have been given as the
l2st nine in that round Included a
succession Of holes that were particu
larry good.
The first score IN the book was
made by James Braid. playing in the
open championship Of the world al st
Andrews June 90, 1910. lie won that
wear. as he has done on four other oC-
casions, but apparently this round
stays in his memory have no doubt
he could ten YOU where every shot
landed. although II was four years
ago Many Of us have made 16 hut
not al a critical time
HIS score was,
ieiI ..s+....s 2 y - 81 %
In .... 5 3 4 5-3S-I6
Harry LADDERS Score Good.
Page No sees a record score by
n. VI. Barker at Garden city. but
since then the course has been
changed His two on the sixteenth
would mean n 200 yard shot holed on
the present course
The score was
out 49,. = 3 4 5 4 SO
In .... 344 3 3 4 . 3 90 GS
Harold Hilton comes next with his
last half Of the qualifying round IN
the 1911 national championship at
Apawannis We were all very close a.
him. but the following remarkable
round gave him the medal
ont .......4 3 8 3 3 I 637
In ...... 80 5 4 31-,i
There is a score ny Harry Lauder
playing in the Wappenshaw tourney
al NanCourtlandt Park, New York
and II shows him to be an excellent
PLAYER;
out .....4 s rs
In ........ 4t5 60 6 5--t2-S,
Vardon and Massy Tie.
John Ball comes next. out OF thou.
sands OF fine rounds he chooses this
one. and | should like TO talk 1t ovel
with him II was made al Holyoke
en- the edge of when course he ha'
lived all his lie
out ....... 64b 3 4 r as
In ... 424 a. IS =
Harry Nardou and Armand Mass,
were ted for the worlds champion
ship in June 1911. WAS there an'
saw the following score "a missed put
here and there, but every long sho
perfect
Out ....... 4 3 5-S5
In .-.-.- a . 4a34 5-S7-1
Alec Herd presents a e on the SANE
course lie led the feid after tina
round. but lost his advantage:
out ....... 3 3 3 SIS
In .-..... 4444 4-S1--7
Findlay Douglass, an American am
ateur. signs fine II at Apawannis
Out .....4 44S SO 5S6
In ... A434 as z
Rays Record Wonderful,
Archibald Graham, former runner
up IN the National, presents u o.
prominent Jersey course
out .... ~ IS
In ...... 4 , "a 81 e
Edward Ray won the open world
championship at Muirfeld In 1871
has played the course ii is marvellous
Out ... s a 4 1 4-S6
In ....... 3 4-S5-5
Al the time made my record chi
csgo Coli covered nearly $500 yard
and averaged stroke for ever
hundred yards
ont ....... Q g 5-34
In ........ 4 3 4 4-3i d