Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-26
NATIONS EXPERTS
EASILY THWARTED
Nick Par in Single Rounds,
None Able to Equal 1t
for Full Route.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

SCllCS wiz p1dJCN III O1iS
i National Capital open
championship at the Ken
wood Golf and Country Club two
weeks ago failed to get very far
In their task of Subduing the Ken
wood course.
Not only did the winner fail to equal
the par of 210 for the three rounds
of the championship distance, although
par was broken many times for single
rounds Of the layout, but the same lads
who have shattered par on hundreds of
golf courses along the Nations bun
kered battle front had plenty of trou-
Bile with few of the holes-notably
the first and thirteenth, two of Ken
woods lengthiest. Harry Kidder. the
same gent who presides over the Hand
leap Committee at KenWood. and is In
the habit OF issuing statistical sum-
marieS on stated occasions, has come
forth with a tabulation of the results
of the Kenwood open which shows that
the grand average score for all the
nationally famous pros who played on
the final day of the tourney was ISL.
The same summary shows that the
first nine, a comparatively innocent
looking layout, is harder than the Sec
ond nine. for the boys who do their
talking with pin-seeking iron shots piled
up a grand average of 37.7 for the
first nine, while they averaged 374
for the second nine, with its two long
par 5 holes.
TIME first hole at Kenwood. measur-
ing 458 yards in length, which
is just yards more than par
Il eta 10 A
the course. Only one man among
birdie on this hole, while 54 scored
As and 118 took S. Kenwoods second
hole. which measures 483 yards, and
is another par 4, was far easier than the
first hole, for five men bagged brides
on this hole and II gathered As, while
only 112 took IS. Ralph Guldahl. the
beetle-browed gent from Texas, was the
lone competitor to gather 7.
OF the par-3 holes, the 275-yard
tenth was the toughest. There were 7
deuces on this hole. but only 81 threeS,
as against the lit threes scored on the
par-3 sixth, 112 on the par-3 eighth
and 119 on the par-3 seventeenth. The
tenth is the hole where Walter Kozak,
who finished in second place at 212,
one stroke back of Paul RunyanS WIN
lllll6 al, LCdAy lOob lLlO bOul
Here Kozak hit tee shot which might
have kicked onto the green but kicked
instead behind bunker. He pitched
into the bunker. whacked the ball out
and got down in S. when would
have won the tourney. One competitor
holed a pitch shot for an eagle deuce
on the fourteenth hole.
Twice the course record, first set by
Tommy Armour in 1881, was tied.
Kozak tied it with his second-round 68
and Horton Smith. the 1882 winner,
hopelessly out Of the tournament after
his second-round 80. came along on
the last round and tied it again. The
official record for the Kenwood layout
still stands at SO, although Al Hough-
ton twice has broken IS, not in compe-
tition. Houghton did a SO in 1881 and
scored 81 this year.
T@HE difficulty of the Kenwood lay
out is shown by the fact that on
the final day, with most of the
leading par-seekers of the Nation
shooting for considerable piece of
money, there were 98 scores Of 80 and
over Kenwood is like that. 1t can
creep up and bite you when you are
not looking. 1t may not be the hard
est golf course around the National
Capital, but the fact remains that in
three tournaments par never has been
eQualed for the three rounds of the
"open" tourney. If Kenwood holds Its
tourney next year in the Spring; as the
ditlonS probably will be far better than
they have been for the previous affairs.
1t will be interesting at that time to
see whether dII ang one OF the Pr effa
pace along the route.
Literally everything eatable for Thanks
giving from soup to nuts, will be offered
the competitors in the Women's District
Coli Association tourney tomorrow at
the Manor Club. Prizes for the affair
have been donated by William NJ. Smith
and the association hopes for finc
turnout in one of the final events OF
the year. Four live turkeys will go to
those with the four low gross and net
scores, while two of those lower down
in the scoring will get brace of capons.
Other prizes include soup, in cans, md
glace nuts. Seventeen prizes in all will
be put up for the best competition,
which will be at 18-hole handicap medal
play.
DANDY ARMOUR, Congressional pro,
- is having these days revival of the
same accurate game that won for
him the Scottish amateur title two dec
AIDES and more ago. Sandy's latest stunt
was to play his home layout in 63 strokes.
better than par for the course. With
that famous putter, known to hundreds
of Congressional members as Spark
Plug" the elder Armour is knocking
the ball into the hole from any and al,
distances. If Tommy Armour could
putt like his brother he would win al
most every tournament he enters.
Among the unique instruments used
to coax an Grant golf ball into the cup
on local courses, none is more unusual
than the putter used by E. M. Talcott
of the Chevy Chase Club. Talcott, a
veteran golfer, and thorough student
of the game, has made for himself cen
ter-shafter putter of the Schenectady
type from a piece of ivory With this
weapon he is able to hole the ball con-
sistently at distances up to 10 feet, and
he has become known as one OF the best
of many fine putters who play at Chevy
Chase. For years he used the aluminium
Schenectady, but he believes his present
club is better than the old type.
CERTAIN fundamentals OF teaching
golf should form the basis OF the
new teaching code which the Pro-
fessional Golfers Association is to i'm
part to its members, in the opinion OF
Fred Mcleod and AL Houghton, pros at
Columbia and Kenwood There are
two or three reasons for a SLICE
Houghton says, land these should be
included in the new teaching curricu-
lum. Likewise there are two or three
reasons for hook and for topping and
these also should be included
Fred Mcleod says that every profess
sional worthy of the name should know
and Immediately recognize the different
types Of mistakes that cause slices,
given the code much Thought, but it
may work out" Fred says. There are