Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19

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Winged Foot is hard but fair. There
are scores and scores of traps scattered
about its rolling surface to make the
nnwary pay for their carelessness. But
no bed of sand is unfair. The perfectly
hit shots will not find trouble.
3' The greens are as near PERFECTION
as putting surfaces can be made. The
bali rolls straight and true If properly
hit and in the majority of cases next
week those that should 60 In will do
Just that.
Rain Would Help.
A good rain will prove helpful. A
week before the big chance comes to
the games best. the fairways are hard
and the ball gets more roll than is
possible under normal playing con-
ditions.
In tuninr-up rounds yesterday, Bobby
Jones. Johnny Farrell, Mac Smith, Gene
Sarazen and Charley Hall, the long
driving pro from Birmingham, were
getting great distance from the tee.
A soaking rain will make the game
different, Just as the wind changes
tactics without warning on the course.
The course has four one-shotters,
two on each side. Two will call for a
spoon from a majority Of the players,
for under the championship conditions,
other two will be reached with a No. 4
iron. The thirteenth, a long iron or
short wood has a trap to the right
giving an impression that the Sahara
Desert has changed its base. The five
par holes four of them also equally
divided between the two mines, are
back breakers. Two will be more than
500 yards and two in the neighborhood
of 460 The long hitters who are able
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well trapped green's will deserve the
brides that will be their reward.
Mike Brady, veteran Winged Foot
professional, who has done the course
in 81. with play at each hole starting
from the back tees is too modest to
talk about his own golf performances,
but there are plenty of his friends at
the club who will assure one and all
that Mixes record is in no danger.
A 81 under the strain incident to cham
pionship play would be golfing mir
acle. There are many who insist that
10 is not likely to be bettered on a
single round in the championship play.
Believe 2sS VIII Win.
Some of the professionals who have
tried out the course resistance suggest
296 for the 70 holes of play as a score
likely to stand the attack Of the 153
WHO Will seek IIlN NISdLA u LLIC
game. Bobby Jones agrees. II think
a count of 296 will give any one ieel-
ing of security when the scores are all
in" the amateur champion said.
At Oakmont in 1927 Tommy Armour
and Harry Cooper tied for the lead at
3o1. Hundreds of strokes we're lost on
the Pittsburgh course in the traps, not
quite so numerous as those of Winged
Foot. but with more vicious bite. The
traps at Oakmont we're filled with heavy
sand and furrowed so that a good lie
in the hazards was impossible, A hard
rain made the conditions even more
dif1cult.
There are tons upon tons of sand in
the Winged Foot traps, but it IS light
and burrows cannot be made in it. Heel
prints will be the worst foes Of the
Eharpshooters.
"It's no trouble to get out of the
traps" said Brady. Getting in them
probably will cost a stroke, for even
the best can't always pitch out close
enough to get down in one putt. but
that's what they are there for. That
sand trough is easy to play out Of" 1t
is a question if some of the players who
grow too familiar with the traps next
week will agree with Mike.
Winged Foot is real golf course, no
matter If the man who laid it out did
wear seven-league boots as he walked
from the tees TO the green's up hill and
down hill, and through the forests.
It's no course for women and chill