Evening star., 1933-12-12
PEAC0CK'S 68 HELD
GREATEST OF YEAR
Nee, Lunn Record 81 Each,
but Not in Face of Such
Hot Competition.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

/ were played by a trio of the
finest amateurs about
Washington this year. The scor-
frg-feats of Roger Peacock at
Indian Spring in the final round
OF the Maryland State title
tourney; of Maurice Nee in the
qualifying round of the Chevy
Chase invitation to rnament, and
OF Richard Lunn, the District
champion, in the Chevy Chase
Club championship, were out
standing featS.
Peacock's round of 68 over his home
course to win tournament that ap-
peared hopeleSSly lost was, in my opin-
ION, the finest competitive round plaved
py any amateur golfer near the Capital
this year.
The CTS shot by Nee and Lunn at
CneVy Chase were made in the trying
test OF medal play. Peacocks SO was
three strokes better than the par of II
Tor the Indian Spring course, while the
blS scored by Lunn and Nee were two
shots below the rigid par of 50 at
Chevy Chase.
Many other fine scoring rounds were
turned in this year, but these three
stand out, since all were played in COM
petition and will stand in the records
For example, Roger Peacock got real
~ hot" one day during the past Sum-
mer at Manor and burned up the course
with subpar score of "a, shattering
by four shots the unofficial record of
90 which previously had been jointly
he'd by Harry Pitt and Al Treder.
One Midsummer day Al Houghton in
Tited Calvert Dickey of Washington
over to see the Kenwood course and
showed Dickey such a lot of golf that
when the KenWod kleagle holed a Is
footer for a birdie on the eighteenth
green his score showed he had used
only 64 strokes to play this par 70 lay
Cuc.
Sandy Armour had several 68s at
Congressional; Horton Smith PLAYED
IenWcod in 68 in the National Cap
1tal open; Fred Mcleod had several
66S at Columbia, and other players went
below 70 on occasions.
But OF all the rounds played in COM
petition this year those three by Pea
tock, Lunn and Nee get the laurelS
Peacock Given Palm.
nEACOCK'S round I believe to be
the best because it was made
Tic IlOILESL kulQ O1 IRE,
against an opponent who can both take
and give and who replied with near
par golf, only to find himself swamped
under the drum-fire of brides shot at
him by the District champion of 1882
Late in July Peacock and Pitt were
locked in a head-to-head struggle for
the Maryland title over the 36-hole
route. Pitt shot a fiat 70 over the
morning round to turn up on Roger.
And when Pitt won the second hole in
the afternoon, to go up, it looked as
III Roger was destined to take a severe
licking.
But the raven-haired youngster chip
ped one in for winning birdie at the
third hole and moved fast away from
there. He holed a 20-foot doWnhill putt
fer another birdie at the fourth. won the
fifth with a par, the sixth with a par
ana the seventh with birdie From
that point on, no matter what Harry
nid, Roger did better.
The barrage of brides and pars that
came off his red-hot clubs would have
w4thered any human opponent. Al
though Pitt played the 36 holes at In
dian Spring in a total of 144 strokes, he
lost the match by and g. Rogers per-
foTmance in the final of that Maryland
State championship was easily the
finest bit of inspired golf put on by any
amateur around Washington this year
For years the Chevy Chase amateur
had stood at SO, since the day
George Voigt set the mark back in 1926
in the qualifying round of the invita-
tion tourney. 1t stood until May of
this year, when Maury Nee Whirled
around the course in 81 strokes, only
a few hours after a heavy rainstorm
had slowed down the layout to the point
where even the long hitters were using
two wooden shots to reach the sixth
green.
Unhindered by Damp Courses.
TAURY stood on the sixteenth tee
vi with three IS for 65, but he
weakened over those remaining
testing holes, taking SIS on the sixteenth
and eighteenth for a 81, marking the
first time par had been bettered by an
amateur in medal play over the Chevy
Chase course. Nee was beaten in the
final round of the tourney by towering
Dick Lunn.
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