Evening star., 1933-06-11

T Tot weather has brought in its
- wake an orgy. of low scoring,
locally as well as in the National
Open championship at Chicago
Two rounds of golf have been played
during the past week which take rank
as two of the finest exhibitions of the
game ever seen around Washington.
First, AL Houghton, the Kenwood
Kleagle, blistered his way over the tor4
rid fairways of his home course at Ken
wood with score of "a, picking up
eight brides in that round to play the
layout in seven strokes better than par
Then along came towering Dick Lunn,
who has so far been revealed as the
leading amateur of the season around
Washington, burning his way over the
Chevy Chase course for 81, to tie the
official record set by Maurice Nee on
May II. to win the Chevy Chase cham
pionship by 10 shots.
Finer rounds may have been played,
but they haven't come so close together.
One day last Summer Houghton played
his home course in SO strokes. but We
doubt if that round was so consistently
to score his g. In the first place there
were no accidents in Houghton's "a. 1t
was a finely played and stoutly made
64. No chip shots found the bottom of
the cup and no mashie shots were holed.
ITO be sure, the Kenwood pro did sink
i flock of lengthy puts, ranging
from 20 feet down to feet, but he
hit the cup on at least two other oc-
casions for brides that did not drop.
Indeed it is hard to understand how his
putt for an eagle at the twelfth failed
to fall. 1t hit the tin and remained
outside by only blade of grass.
Only twice did Houghton fail to hit
the greens in regulation figures or better,
and then he got his par just the same
His only real mistake of the round came
at the ninth, where he made too bold
bid for and missed 4-footer for 4.
Bob Barnett has played Chevy Chase
in Ga, and Gene Larkin has had several
rounds in 65, as well as Barnett, but
we doubt If finer round has been
played over that classic layout than
the 81 scored by Dick Lunn. The tall
youngster who attends Friends School,
stood on the sixteenth tee, needing two
pars for IS, under the rigorous test
of medal play conditions That he took
on the seventeenth and finished
with a 81 does not detract whit from
the excellence of his score.
Undoubtedly those Cts made by Lunn
and Nee will stand for years as the
finest scores shot by amateurs at Chevy
Chase Six brides fell to Lunn's blaz-
ing clubs as the tall youngsters hot
as the day-walloped the ball amazing
distances and converted tough par
holes into drive-and pitch affairs. That
round of golf sewed up the competition
for the Oden Horstmann Trophy. He
won it with total of 290-the finest
72-hole score ever recorded by a local
amateur in stroke competition over such
a hard course.
THERE is no limit to the distnace
i such youngsters as Lunn and Nee
can go. They can win national
championships if they maintain the
scoring pace they have set this year.
But: How do you think Al Houghton
felt about qualification in the Ma
tional Open. as he played his home
course in better than 10 strokes on
three consecutive rounds? Such golf
would have put Houghton very close to
a national title if he could have gone
to Chicago.
And to keep the scoring ratio going,
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