Evening star., 1932-04-19

v you don't have to go to national
| " championships to see fine golf
and fine shots. Our profess
sionals at clubs around Wash
ington and Baltimore, even though they
don't win national titles as general
rule, are capable Of making shots which
MANY of the big boys would like to
make on certain occasions.
Consider the men who played in the
sweepstakes tourney at Kenwood yes
terday. where Al Houghton, the home
club pro- put on such hot finish over
the last nine that he romped down in
front to score II and win by four
strokes Consider Houghton's eagle 3
on the par five twelfth and his three
straight IS beginning at the fifteenth.
Consider the truly great iron shot that
Glenn Spencer played at the 275-yard
mar three tenth hole and the mastery
pitch that Sandy Armour played from
the right side of the twelfth green to
stop that ball within few feet OF the
pin when the green, fast as skating
rink. sloped away from the flight OF
Consider the Hagen-nke shot that
Red" Cunningham played from
bunker at the seventh to get an easy
par, and the booming tee shot tnat BOD
Barnett hit on the fifteenth. No, you
don't have to go to national champion
ships to see great golf shots. Our own
home bows can make EN-. too. The only
difference between them and the men
who win national championships IS
that the big shots Of golf make them
a little more often.
THAT tenth hole at Kenwood is the
Il longest par-3 hole around Wash
ington. It stretches AIS yards from
tee to green. a green we'll hanked with
shallow trans. At the back Of the green
| is a 4O-foot bank and it isn't considered
good golf to go over that green: yes
terday most of the boys used NO. irons
! with the wind behind them, and they
| were generally finding the bunker at the
left. for the ground slopes that way.
But Spencer who has more than repu-
tation as long hitter, played his shot
the other way. He stood and swung for
| a deliberate slice. and the result was
| one of the finest shots we ever nave
seen. high-hying ball that carried far
| out toward the green and then sliced IN
| toward the pin to hold its line against
the left-hand bounce and end only Il
feet from the pin.
Al Houghton used brasSie Tor MS
second shot at the twelfth, and was
one of the few who reached the green
| in 2 on his par affair. But he
topped his two shots off by holing a
| 2o-foot downhill putt for the eagle.
At the same hole a few minutes later
| Sandy Armour put his second shot to
| the right OF the green, leaving himself
a tricky pitch over a yawning SAND
| trap to a fast green sloping away from
him. So deftly did the Congressional
Scot execute the shot that he stopped
the ball within 4 feet of the hole. And
at the seventh Red" Cunningham slid
his second shot into trap over the
green. He stepped down into that trap
and pulled Walter Hagen's old stunt.
With a putter Cunningham knocked
the ball within a foot of the hole and
got his par Just the same. That's the
main difference between professionals
and amateurs. The pros know how to
handle themselves in trouble and most
amateurs do not.
Houghton, the winner Of the tourney,
was out in 81, but he picked up an
eagle and two birds over the back nine
to romp home with the bacon and most
Of the purse Bob Barnett of Chevy
Chase and Ralph Beach tied for sec
| ond at IS. and John Flattery Of All
View was fourth with rs.
EIGHTY woman golfers have entered
- in the annual tourney for the
Phyllis Keeler Memorial Trophy
which will be PLAYED over the course of
the Washington Golf and Country Club
tomorrow.
The tourney is an 1o-hole medal plav
handicap affair, open to members of
clubs affiliated with the Women's Dis
trict Golf Association The field is the
largest In the three-year history of the
tournament The pairings follow:
s:30, Mrs Ora Emge CBeaver DAM. Mrs
H. A. Neff Beaver DAM, Miss Virginia
Pope (Kenwood); $40, Mrs. L. w. Worrel
| (Washinstonl, Mrs. Moore (Washington)
Miss Elizabeth Harris tKenwood); s:45, Mrs.