Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
AVE you ever heard Of 3 pro-
fessional golfer missing . putt
in serious competition OF less


be done, under certain conditions, when
the man is not keyed up to the making
of the stroke. and perhaps has little
Of the Il don't care" spirit about it.
In the qualifying round for the
P. G. A. tourney at Indian Spring last
Tuesday we saw two well known pro-
fessionals miss puts which we're ridic-
ulously short. On the eleventh hole
Fred Mcleod of Columbia, already
played out by the enervating heat Of
the day, made q pass at q 3-inch> putt
and missed it, and on another green
Dave Thomson, the pro at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club. missed
O putt of less than q foot in length,
which caused Brick" Wood, his assist
ant, to exclaim something like this:
will miracles never cease?"
Undoubtedly had Mcleod and Thorn
son stepped around to get in proper
position for the putt they would have
made both of them. But the heat of
the day had gotten to both of them
and they were a wee bit careless as
they putted. And George Diffenbaugh,
the Indian Spring assistant, tells of
how Monro Hunter, who can putt with
the best of them, blew q putt of less
than a foot but not in competition,
for Hunter did not play in the 2. G.. A.
qualifying round. A few years back
Tommy Armour took puts from a
foot away, the mistake costing him the
Canadian open championship. Care
lessness on the short ones in medal play
just doesn't count--except in favor of
the other fellow.
ItTOME on, Doc, knock it in the
~ hole. The ball has to stop some
where, and ! know you can do
It," The speaker was NJ H. Maier, chair
man Of the Beaver Dam Golf Com
mittee, as he exhorted Or. D. G.. Davis,
his partner, In four-ball match, to
knock that ball in the hole on the
fifteenth green. And Bill White. green's
committee chairman, stood OF and
grinned as only Bill can grin, as he
asked, Under what rules can he knock
that ball in the hole.'
The lengthy thirteenth hole at Beaver
Dam has been shortened to par 4
affair by Use of front tee. So many
members complained that a good tee
shot round the ditch about 1875 yards
away from the back tee, White explain
ed that front tee was put into use.
The new tee makes the hole a stiff
par 4. where from the = TX tee, the hole
was n larry ehSN !.-hi y.
THOMAS ]. Davidson and George P.
i Grau. jr., will meet next Wednes-
day at the Manor Club in the final
round of the second annual golf tourna-
ment ged by the Washington Chap
ter, American Institute of Banking.
Qualifying rounds in the tourney were
PLAYED early in June at Bannockburn,
and match play rounds have been
played at other coureses subsequently,
leaving Davidson and Grau, the final
lists. The sixteen qualiflers were Nathan
Poole, W. 3. Robinson, Donald Jones
Grau, Davidson, Aubrey o. Dooley
Patrick r. Cook, T. Edwin Norris, II
r. KimbaIl. Kenneth Davis. Wilbur c.
Dieter, Jeffrey A. Abel, Vincent A.
Shelby, L. j. Reddington, Norbert z.
| Norris and Frank Cook
| From the qualifying round eight men
we're chosen to rpresent the Washing
ton Chapter in a team match with the
Baltimore Chapter to be played later.
Those who made the team were Robin
son, Cook. Poole. Grau, Jones. Davidson.
/ Norris and Dooley. At the opening
| meeting Of the washington Chapter, to
| be held n -9r. cniber, the winner of the