The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-03
FLORIDA LINKS
 HAVE HELPED
 FREAK PLAYS
Season Down South Was a Very Unusual One-NeWS and
 Gossip of Golfers

Florida this season added it's usual number of freak shots to the game.
 At Palm Beach, F. R. Madison of
 New York missed two shots entirely,
 when he got in a bid spot and then
 holed out his next getting a par four.
 Walter Hagen made the best shot
 ever seen in golf when he played
 ed the ball around two trees on to
 the green, a distance of 22O yards,
 During the same tournament Mike
 Brady and Hagen both sliced their
 drives and both landed in an uT-
 playable lie in the rough. + cost
 them two strokes to drop out. At
 BeIleair Ellsworth Augustus during
 the Belleair championship hooked his
 drive into the garage. The ball roll
 ed il 2 the private office, where he
 played out to the rough, then over
 the green, taking a. six finally.
 In one of the earlier tournaments
 Ham Kerr played out of q sand trap
 with a spoon, q distance of ITO yards.
 and put the ball stone dead. On the
 number four hole on the same course four ones were made in a month s time, something very unusual for hol- ing out tee shots. At Palma Ceia the tournament was played with the course half under water there being more casual land than water. Despite this handicap Hagen made a 74. At Boco Grande two golfers sliced and hit the same tree, bounding back on the fairway and landing within two feet of each other.
 The Useppa Island golf course in Florida is one of the smallest courses in the United States and is usually 1 referred to as the west pocket course 1 Of America It is only nine holes to begin with and the distance only D. 100 yards, but any golfer to get a good score must play faultless golf. l During the latter part Of March 1 golf as a rule gives way to fishing in l Florida. The best fishing is in the l gulf on the west coast. Everything 1 from a tarpoon to a sunfish can be l caught at this time Of the year The i Eingfish is now running, and it is no 1 trick at all to get twenty or thirty. 1 The average weight is fifteen pounds, l When the golfers gather at the i Country Club of Lakewood fer the l annual spring tournament there April 1 24, 25 and 26, they will find one of ] the best athletic fields in New ter 1 sey at the resort in the pines. The 1 field is being built behind the high school, and work is almost conplet- | ed. It includes a baseball diamond, | cinder track, football field, tennis l courts and out-of-doors basketball 1 court, and it is the intention to hold 1 big field meets.
 For the second time in tive years | the AshevilIe professional tournament 1 was won by Jock Hutchinson of the i GIenvie~ Club, with Eddie Loos of i Beverly and Mike Brady of Oakley 1 tied for second honors. In leading l the field Hutchinson played brilliant 1 golf, with rounds of 6S, 72, Fl and 72 | for a total of 2S3. His nearest op- l ponents tied at 2SS. Wilfrid Reid of 1 Wilmington was fourth with 289.
 Donald Ross. the well known ar
 chitect, will probably be called in by the officials of the Overbrook Coli Club to re-organize the course there l and add nine new holes. The agita- ! ton for eighteen hole circuit was first 1 brought about by Charles Barton Keen, one of the moving spirits in l the organization, who has just re- i turned from Pinehurst. Keen incl 1 dentaIiy says they are planning to | add two new courses to this winter 1 meet for golfers.