Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26
EVANS TELLS Of
BEST SCORES IN
GOLF INC HISTORY.
Chick Says Each Club Should
Keep Record of Remarkable
Plays by Members.
BY Chick Evans.

= offers are noted for a fJnd-
II ness for collecting data and in
teresting facts and souvenirs Of
clubs. balls with which great matches
have been won, newspaper clippings
and pictures. all serve to recall
famous monuments in the history OF
golf Many time have ] shown a
man the different shots that ] use
while a stenographer has taken down
each stroke in detail as ! stood before
MIN
The other day a most interesting
little book came 10 my notice. II is a
Very tiny red leather bound volume
with the word Golf" in gilt script
trailing carefully across the upper
left hand corner 1t belongs 10 ID
Scott Chisholm, Well-knoWn golfer
II IS a collection of record scores or
memorable scores by the great play
ers OF the world. and IT has already
Travelled three times across the At
lantic, and It win probably make
many journeys more This little rec
ord of the players at their best is a
pleasant idea, ] have always thought
there should be some way of pre-
serving these best scores. for they
serve as monuments OF certain line
should he hung in a prominent place
in the clubhouse and only destroyed
when a new record has been made.
In the case of championship rounds
of great importance IL would be in
teresting TO see a little description OF
the weather az the time they were
played and the score should be pre-
served whether record or not
Evans Stars on Chicago Course.
| have chosen my record OF 6S, made
al Chicago Golf club in July, 1912.
as the best eighteen holes ! ever
made, but the II in the qualifying
round at Garden city last year, per
haps, should have been given, rs the
last nine in that round included
succession of holes that were particu-
larlv GOOD
The first score IN the book was
made by James Braid, playing in the
open championship of the world at st,
Andrews June 90, 1910. lie won that
year, as he has done ON four other &C
asions but apparently this round
stays In his memory. have no doubt
he could tell YOU where every shot
landed, although II was four years
ago Many Of us have made 76. but
not at a critical time
HIS score was:
In ..... 3S44 As 8 5-SS-76
Harry LADDERS Score Good
Page No. > sees record score by
II H. Barker at Garden City, but
since then the course has been
hanged, His two on the sixteenth
would mean a 200-yard shot holed on
the present course.
The score was:
out $4,000. g 4-3s
IN ....,.. 3 80 3 4 ? 4 3-32 -6S
Harold Hilton comes next with his
last half of the qualifying round in
the 1911 national championship Al
ApawanniS We were all very close TO
him. but the following remarkable
round gave him the medal:
out ....... 8 3 3 , 4 6--Sl
In ........ 4S as 4 3-S7-74
There IL a score by Harry Lauder,
playing in the Wappenshaw tourney
st NanCourtlandt Park, New York.
and II shows him to be an excellent
player:
out ....,,.4 54544 SIS
In ........ . & 5--i2-S0
Vardon and Massey Tic,
John Ball comes next. out OF thou
sands Of fine rounds he chooses this
enc. and should like TO talk it over
With him II was made at Holyoke,
On the COge oil Nnltn course ne mas
lived all his life;
out ...... 524 : AS
In ........ 434 - 35-1S
Harry Vardon and Armand MassS
we're tied for the worlds champion
ship in June, 1911 I Was there and
saw the following score "a missed putt
here and there, but every long shot
erfect
out ....... t4S45S 80 SIS
In ....... . 4 3 5Si -ic
Alec Herd presents = - on the same
course He led the fold after tina
round. but lost his advantage.
out -...... > { : ; 5-36
In .... 54t4i ar -
fiudlsy Douglass an American am
stcur, signs a fine II Al Apawannis.
out ....... i44S 6 3 5-36
IN ....... 4AS 3 3 4-S5-7l
Rays Record Wonderful.
Archibald Graham, former runner
up in the National, presents a Il on
a prominent Jersey course.
out .,..... 3 . ( so t-$5
In ..--.... 4 , - SIS 81
Edward Ray won the open worlds
ampiolship at Muirleld in 1912
Isn't his score beauty" To one who
has played the course it is marvellous
out ....... SO
In .....s.. 500 - SOL
At the time made my record Chi
ego Coli covered nearly $500 yards.
and averaged stroke for every
hundred yards
out ....-.. 5SS 45S4 S-ai