South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-08-13
Southern Open Golf Tournament
In September Attracts Big Stars
More Than Seventy Professionals Indicate Intention of Enter
ing-"Chick' Evans, Willie Hunter Gene Sarazen
and Others Play - Prizes Numerous.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Aug. -. -
The fourth open championship of
the Southern Golf association to be
played on the Belle Meade course
here Sept. $3.50, offers probably the
richest prizes of the season to pro-
fessiOnals and promises to bring to-
gether the leading professionals and
several of the best amateurs Of
America as well as representative
British players.
More than 20 professionals have
indicated their intention of taking
part. including Gene Sarazen OF
Pittsburg, American and Southern
open champion; Walter Hagen, Brit
ish open champion: Joe Kirkwood.
Australian open champion; jim
Barnes, American champion of 1921:
Jock Hutchison, British open cham
pion Of last year; George Duncan
and Sandy Herd, former British open
champion.
Chick Evans. who has held both
the amateur and open American
titles; Willie Hunter. former British
amateur champion. and Frank God
chaux. New Orleans. runner-up in
the Southern amateur this year. are
among the amateurs expected TO
play. Bobby Jones, Atlanta who
holds the Southern amateur title and
was tied with John Black Of Oak
land, Calf, for second place in the
American open. will be unable to
contest because OF matriculating at
Harvard, while Black probably will
be unable to make the trip from the
coast.
The prizes offered for the tourna-
ment total $4,000 IN cash for the
professionals and plate for the anna
tours. The prize list runs: First
prize. $500; second, $1,000; third,
$3.50; fourth, $500; fifth, $500; sixth.
$500; seventh. S175: eighth. $50;
ninth. 125; tenth. 500; eleventh.
800; twelfth, 500. other prizes
include $50 for the professional
turning in the lowest score for SO
holes: gold medal for the lowest
qualifying score; medal for the anna
tours finishing among first 20 con-
testants.
The tournament program will be
as follows:
Opening day. Sept. IS. qualifying
round OF So holes, the lowest o.
scores qualifying for the champion
ship fight.
Sept. %, the first 86 holes will be
played
Sept. 80. the finest Sc holes will
be played.
In the event of tie for the first
prize, a play-ofr viii be held az SO
holes on Sunday oct. /.
Entries for the tournament will
close Sept. 81 at 6 p. m.
The Belle Meade course, regarded
as a fine test OF golf, has been put
into its best condition. Seventy
three Is par for the course, a de-
scription OF which follows:
No l.-453 yards: elbow hole:
one Of the best No 1 holes IN the
south; a ditch running angleways 70
the hole $50 yards from the tee;
green guarded by two sand traps,
one on the left and one on the right.
Five strokes is par.
No. 2-2I0 yards; a one-shot hole
modeletl after the famous Redan
hole, North Berwick, Scotland; sand
trap guarding raised green in front,
one on left and on the right; par 3.
No 3-416 yards. a very good
hole. but easy 20 play: green guard
ed by ditch IN front; sand trap 20
left and one 20 right OF green; par =.
No. $50 yards; a creek 60 feet
wide has 20 be crossed twice; first
$50 yards from the tee and again
in front OF the green; par 4
No. 5-412 yards; a sliced ball al
! this hole u out OF bounds a quarry
guards the left side OF the fair7vay;
| the green which Is a rolling one Is
guarded by a long sand trap; a sliced
second shot Is out OF bounds as the
! green IS near the road: par 4.