Evening star., 1932-06-22
WINNER UNLIKELY
TO APPROACH PAR
Perfect Figures Are 10 and
Four. 72s Regarded as
Good Enough.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

T'LUSHING, Long Island, June
r p. No toy layout - this
L Fresh Meadow golf course,
where Isl professional and
amateur golfers will struggle for
the national open golf champion
ship of the United States. begin
nlng tomorrow. No bed of roses
Tor the fellow who hits 'em far
and wide and adheres not to the
straight and narrow path between
tee and green. No cinch at all for
any man, even for Sarazen. the
stocky little Italian American,
who held down the professional
berth at Fresh Meadow for three
years and only a fortnight ago
won the British open with a rec
ord-SmaShing 283.
Built by Arthur w. TilEnghast less
than 10 years ago, the Fresh Meadow
layout is rated by professionals who
played 1t in the P. G.. A. tournament two
years back as one of the hardest and
most genuinely testing golf courses in
the United States. Up on the northern
shore Of Long Island not far from
Manhattan, the layout is usually swept
by breezeS off Long Island Sound.
Tillinghast has two championship
courses this year, for he also is the
designer of the Five Farms course of
the Baltimore Country Club. where the
national amateur championship will be
played next September Never a strong
believer in sheer power from the tee.
he has placed a high premium at Fresh
Meadow on placing OF the tee shot, for
here the long hitter who hooks the
ball will always be fighting the out
of-bounds penalty of the left side OF
the fairway.
HIHAT score will win the champion
w snip? Par for the course is 70
and there isn't much doubt that a
quartet Of 72s will win the 1882 edi-
ton Of the national open. But not
one OF the professionals gathered here
has any idea that four TBS will be
made. For one thing. this tournament
IS the national open, an affair where
men Who can crack the ball in prac-
tice around any golf course in u or
better suddenly find themselves steer
ing the pill to keep out of trouble And
steering golf ball never did get any
one anywhere For another thing,
Fresh Meadow has watered fairways
None OF the big roll that comes from
fast fairways is being obtained up here
on Long Island. And, furthermore, the
normally slow fairways have been
slowed up by week Of wet weather.
The course plays 68l5 yards in
length, Which is about normal for an
open championship test in these days
when to get anywhere your winning pro
has to knock the ball long way. While
much of this yardage is packed into
two holcs-the fifth and sixteenth-an
analysis of the course shows that only
on these two holes will your good golfer
have to use his brassie if he hits his
tee shot fairly we'll The fifth hole
plays 578 yards, and the SiXte enth is
587 yards long. Only on these two
holes is the brassie needed for the
second shot if the player hits his tee
shots well But scattered along the
bunkered route are plenty of holes Of
real par range-holes like the 437-
yard first; the 435-yard eighth and the
448-vard thirteenth. If big wind
comes up from either east or west dur
ing the championship all these par As
may become something else again.
THE best score in competition at
i Fresh Meadow is Leo Diegel's SO.
made in the qualifying rounds of
the P c. A tourney of 1880. Twice
during the past few days Diegel has
gene below 10. scoring a brace OF 695.
and Al Ciuci. the club pro. has played
the LAYOUT in Sc. But it is fairly GER
tain that brace of 72s-even 4s fer a
total Of 288-will win this champion
ship. Even without a Jones to lead
them the boys are fairly good at knock
ing golf ball around in economical
figures
All the big shots are here. Led by
Sarazen the professional brigade has
turned out in all it spenGor for its
second Jonesless championship in 10
years. OF course Gene, with that amaz-
ing 283 in the British open behind him.
is the bellwether of the flock. but YOU
can't casually toss of men like Tommy
Armour. Macdonald Smith. John Far
rell Billy Burke. George Won Elm and
the two visiting fOreigners-Jose Jurado
from the Argentine and Tomakichi
MiyamotO, the little man from Japan
with the enormous wallop from the
tee. Any one of them may win, or there
may come along an outsider such as
was Billie Burke last year. to stalk of
with the honor and the dough.
Fred McLeods favorite to win Is
Macdonald Smith. the Carnoustie Scot.
who has finished second in so manv
championships his neck is covered With
spike marks from pushing the leaders.
If Mac" doesn't come through this
time Freddie may go into bankruptcy
for he has gone down heavily on Smith.