The New York herald., 1921-03-31
PAUL HUNTER PLAYS
SENSATIONAL GOLF.
Makes Six BRIDES in Row in
Record Round Of SO at
Pasadena.
by KERR N. PETRIE.

DIR. Paul Hunter. the former star of
the Midlothian Country Club, Chicago.
who since he became a full blown med
leo has been mingling with the golfers
out, Los Angeles way, appears to be
playing right at the top Of his game
these days. his latest achievement being
round of SO made in medal competi-
ton over the Pasadena course. Paul
Hunter, to give him the plain. unadorned
name by which he was known to golfers
of the East, was one OF the regular ma
tional championship entrants from about
1909. the year In which Robert Gardner
won his first title, until about five years
ago and those linksmen who feared he
had been lost to the game will be glad
TO learn that he Is playing as often as
his professional duties will permit. which
appears to be often enough to keep him
right up to top notch form. This year
he already holds the California cham
pionship. and that 50 at Pasadena would
appear to be his way of demonstrating
that the winning of the State title is In
no sense a fluke.
The Pasadena Is the course over which
Leo Diegel made SO about five weeks
ago. but while quite authentic, that card
was not made In the heat of competition
and therefore Is not regarded as an
official record. Hunter himself has
made a 8S In practice. but his so Is a
new amateur mark and. besides ties the
record held by Ernest Martin. the pro-
fessional.
Hunter got off TO a disheartening
start for on the first two holes he
slipped three strokes TO par. taking on
the first and on the next At that
however. he was even with par at the
turn with a 35 for the nine. and back In
"A. which is one better than par.
SIX Holes I'm Twenty-Five.
About Or. Hunters round there were
several unusual features. For instance,
he played six consecutive brides begin
nIng with the sixth. Then. beginning
with the fifth and finishing at the elev-
enth he had every hole in three but the
nirth-six holes in twenty-five
strokes In view OF this Il may be worth
while TO set down the card of Or Hunter
and to compare II with the par for the
course.
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But the threes and the brides do not
conclude the list of features. At the
tenth DR.. Hunter drove 325 yards, hav-
ing a seventy-five yard pitch TO the
green after his tee shot on 425 yard
hole This, II is declared, is absolutely
the longest drive ever seen at Pasadena.
In any event II may interest those who
know the course to hear that the shot
carried to the edge of the canal and to
the right OF the fairway. At the last hole,
I. should also.be mentioned, the man
whose footwork In 1911 attracted the
attention OF Harold II. Hilton. had putt
for a 6S, but the ball trimmed the cup
and refliRpd to droD
The changes in the course OF the Ged-
ney Farm Country Club, started last au-
tumn under the direct supervision Of
Walter j. Travis and Or. ID. Austin
Snlffen, chairman of the green com
mittee, are rapidly nearing completion.
few green's remain to be altered, but
this will be done slowly 80 that the play
ing will not be interfered with except
on one green at q time.
This course, always interesting and
thought sufficiently severe-which state
ment Is borne out by the fact that the
par OF the course, 70, has never been
betterea but once, and that by Jack
Dowling, the Scaredale PROFESSIONALS
now taking on the quality touches by the
conditioning Of the fairways, additional
drainage. enlarged tees and lengthening
OF some Of the holes so that the total
length IL now close TO 6,250 yards. Most
important OF all. perhaps, is the fact that
no less than thiTeen OF the eighteen
putting Eresns are being changed from