Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
.144 SET AS LIMIT
OF Low SCORERS
Pacific, as Greatest Water
Hazard, Lends Charm to
Pebble Beach.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

IRON all accounts reaching the
East from those enthusiastic
Westerners who claim Pebble
4 Beach to be n Of the real
championship tests of the golf
world, the gent who slices in the ma
tional amateur championship next
month will need plenty Of aspirin II he
is to frighten away the headache
caused by his wild shots to the right on
no fewer than seven Of the holes OF
the Pebble Beach course. A ball hot far
of the fairway to the right will find
the Pacific Ocean, greatest water
hazard in the world" and on another
a hooked shot will find the borders of
the same expanse of water.
H. Chandler Egan of Medford, Greg,
former amateur champion n the
man who redesigned Pebble Beach in
preparation for the coming title chase.
believes, however, that a score Of 158
for the 36-hole qualifying round will
make the select 80 who will play of ut
match play and that la will be about
the limit Of low scoring. This estimate
Of top and bottom scoring is about the
average in the qualifying rounds Of
the amateur championship. Last year
at Brae-Burn "a hard championship
course) the low qualifying score was
143 and the top figure to qualify was
157. So it will be seen that a top of
1873 and a bottom Of 143 or ia is
about the average.
Fine Test Of Game.
Both Egan and Phillips Finlay be-
lieve that Pebble Beach is a finer test
of the game than Brae-Burn or Mini
kahda. Il look to see some m scroe
about even par to win the qualifying
round" Egan says. "Given decent
weather I believe that IA or las will be
the low score. With so man, very fine
players some one is sure to be hot in
the NEEDLE round"
The course, as 1t will be played in
the coming championship, will measure
1861 yards in length, which again
neutrality-suspicious. a little shorter than
the average Of championship courses.
A safe route is provided from each
tee for the average player and a more
difficult route for the long and &C
curate hitter. Both tee and green have
been changed on the first hole, which
now calls for an accurately placed tee
shot to reach the green. The second
hole measures 400 yards in length and
is a stiff par s.. No. 3 now measures
2l5 yards, with a direct carry of just
that distance. The green Is small and
well trapped.
Short Holes Reap Havoc.
Up at Winged Foot the short holes
| caused a good deal of havoc with the
scores because of their length and their
severe trapping. The same thing will
hold true at Pebble Beach, for at the
California course the greens are tightly
trapped and in addition If the ball goes
over them it may find the breakers OF
the Pacific.
A new tee has been built at the fifth,
! <in~,o al;ar - O0E y,orI 20 50, 70 y1ay fhic
two-shotter correctly. The fifth like
wise has a new green at this l65-yard
hole. Two strong wooden club shots
are needed to reach the green at the
sixth. They must be straight, for the
ocean fringes Of the right and traps
cut into the fairway at the left. The
seventh Is a one shotter, and the eighth
another two shotter with a barranca
to cross.
I, Fine Holes at Finish.
And so 1t goes, making what Chand-
Ter Egan claims Is one OF the most
difficult courses in the world. Long
carries and hard one-shot holes will
make scoring at Pebble Beach a try
ing affair. he says. Two fine holes
wind up the layout, providing some
what the same sort of finish that was
faced at Brae-Burn. The seventeenth
is a one shotter of 225 yards. The
eighteenth is a three shotter of $40
yards, with the tee shot going across
an arm of the ocean. The green has
never been reached in two shots. The
tee is placed on the rocks right out
over the ocean.
The industrious gents who make up
the United States Golf Association will
have a garb all their own at Pebble
Beach. In order that they may not get
a gentle kick in the pants from some
gallery marshal who fails to see their
| official badges, they will all wear bril-
liant red coats to differentiate, them
from the hoi polloi.