The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-14
OLD MAN PAR
STILL ALIVE.
KELLER SAYS
Struggle For Low Scores to
BE Revived at Tourney,
With Par Remote
(RY q. II. kEELER)

Every year, in the. open champion
ships Of golf, the perennial struggle
between the best golfers in the world
and Old Man Par is renewed. And
while you hear and read often Of
the drubbing OF Old Man Par on this
course and that, in this match or the
other, you have yet to hear where
the stubborn old fellow ever has
succumbed, in the United States or
Great Britain. to any golfer in the
standard combat Of four rounds-the
! long route of 70 holes.
| In Canada, at the fine Hamilton
course in 1919, Old Man Par once
took beating at his own game, in
the Canadian Open Championship,
when the late j. Douglas Edgar just
over from England. shot him full of
holes with cards of 1911 go 66-27S,
and set the lowest mark ever scored
in national open champ ionship.
Evans Tops List
But the low mark in Great Britain
is 29l, held jointly by James Braid
at Prestwick and Bobby Jones at St
Anne's. And in this country Chick
Evans, with score of 2s6 at the
Minikahda course near Minneapolis
stands at the top. Gene Sarazen
with 268 at Skokie in the oper
championship of 1922, is next. And
Long Jim Barnes, with 2s9 at the
Columbia Country club. Washington
in 1921, is the only other to win ;
f., United States open championship
with score better than 900.
Indeed the L. S. G. A. Red Boo
,, diseloses the fact that only three
~ l. + L L.. :,
/ that fixture Jock Hutchinson il
1916 shot card of 2SS at Minlkah
!; da to be runner-up to Chick Evans
= Bobby Jones and the venerable job
y Black tied at $50 as co-runners-u
;, to Sarazen at Skokie. And no on
: else has been under 900 for the ~
!, hole bout with Old Man Par in tn
= United States open championship.
Not One of Wins
RI And of this gallant sextet, not on
q has beaten or tied that steady OF
e chap who never gets down in a singl
o putt and never takes three; VIII
J. never shoots a birdie at you, nor il
IS ours buzzard. Not one Of the 81
y Musketeers has equalled Old Ma
: Par over the long route.
e Minikahda, Columbia, Skokie - a
were ranked strict par Of 20, ar
four times 70 amounts to $50.
even the brilliant Chick, in the t.
place today, was half dozen strok
off the traditional opponent in h
f record bout at Minikahda. Saraz,
. was two strokes a round back of Il
0 old fellow at Skokie; and Jim Barn
D was two and quarter stroke
Oithough Barnes and SaraZen al
Evans each had one round that be
Old Man Par--for one round.
And now we have Oakmont, a
z Old Man Par stands on the first
o as the 1927 open championship /
= gins---and who will beat him the
: or tie him?
Is Harder
Y No one, ! think. The Oakmont p
q today is ~. But it used to be
a And the course is longer and me-
I severe today. Four times II is 2
a And that has been beaten but or
and tied but twice in our Americ
championship. And then on cour,
which were shorter and simpler tn
q the great spread at Oakmont, "
o it, 1000 yards and its $50 furrov
q bunkers.
They'll be shooting at him in t
al championship. Bobby Jones
"A Knocked over the impartial old
"a low in a practice round Of 81,
years ago before the national al
2lteur championship at Oakmont. b
nel By is in this field, too; and the =
4 Of TIT golfing world. But I'd