The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
Golfers Prepare for Grand
Exodus to Southern Links

ready mentioned there will he MANY
others of a smaller nature at all Of
the various resorts. Hagen and
Barnes, as we'll as some OF the 9TH
ers, will also engage in special meet
ings, so that all in all there will be
enough doing from January Is to
April to keep all hands interested
The big tournament, of course.
will be the annual North and South
meeting at Pinehurst, where Fred
Mcleod won the title last March
in most sensational meeting. The
diminutive golfer of the Columbia
Club got a flying start on the first
day and held on to his lead until
the end, although Walter Hagen
came with a brilliant rally on the
last two rounds and almost over
took him. Hagen's secondary nIav
brought him from twelfth to third
place, and had he not missed an
easy putt he would have tied NC
Leod for top honors.
Brady Winner Last Yenr.
The Florida East Coast cham
pionshp, at st. Augustine last sea
son was won by Mike Brady, who
finished in first place with the grand
score of 292, eight strokes better
than his nearest competitor. Leo
Diegel, who had an even 300.
Thy Florida West Coast cham
pionship. played at Belleair Heights,
was won by Walter Hagen. who
won this title with the same score
that Brady made at St Augustine
| 2s2. Here, again. Diegel was also
| the runner-up, his score being 3O4.
Jim Barnes finished in a tie for
| third place on this occasion.
Francis Ouimet won the annual
North and South amateur meet
while Harold Weber, who also play .
| ed well in this tourney, was tn :
winner of the annual spring tou :
nament at st. Augustine. WeIe
also captHed the trophy in the Palm
Beach championship meeting. The
South Florida championship was
won by Stuart Stickney. of St. Louis.
/ Normand B. Perkins. of Williams
burg, KY, won the annual C,rmond
Beach meeting.
OF the special matches played the
most notable was that between
Hagen and Barnes, played at New
Orleans for prize of $1,000 Hagen
was victOTA winning out y l up on
the thirty seventh Rots..~ ssSter he had
squared the match with S-foot putt
for a birdie 3 on the seventeenth
hole in the afternoon round, and
won the deciding hole when Barnes
hooked his tee shot off the green.
Hutchinson Close Victor.
/ Jock Hitchison, of Chicago. and
| Davie Robertson. of Pittsburgh. had
an interesting struggle at Belleair,
| Fla, Hutchison winning the money
] by a score of 3 to ..
/ 1t will be interesting to note that
! during the seasons play several
/ course records were broken. Leo
| Diegel, playing over the Pine Forest
Inn course at SummerVille, S. c..
knocked par for a lopsided goal and
the record with it when he turned
in a score of 65-33 out and 80 in
Par is 35 both ways. Following
this, the Chicago youngster lowered
the record at Augusta, Ga, with 6
total of 81.
Walter Hagen made a new record
for the Everglades course in Florida
while Wallace B. Nelson lowered the
course record at Miami Beach with
a score of 81. Hagen's new mark
was 73 Brady made a SO at Miami
but he said it would be a long timl
before 81 is beaten or even eqUaled
/ Undoubtedly we shall begin to hear
of a repetition of these various
feats now that the golfers are
about to start on tour.