Evening star., 1936-01-23
HE'S 10 UNDERPAR
DESPITE BAD HOLE
Boots Away Three Shots in
Epic Performance-TWo
Eagles Mark Card.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.


~ ONE day the perfect round OF
golf may be played, but it isn't
likely that any golfer will be
~ satisfied completely. At some
spot on the course, no matter wheth-
er he gets down in the low COS or
whether he barely breaks 80, he will
be able to point where he lost shot.
But there isn't much doubt, not
withstanding the 62s made at Indian
Spring by Roger Peacock, the 65s at
Columbia by Fred Mcleod and the
Gas at Chevy Chase by Bob Barnett,
not to mention the 81 at Washington
by Al Houghton, that the greatest
single round Of golf ever played at any
local course was the 63 made back N
1927 by Tommy Armour. Sizzling
golf? Yep. every bit Of it. For that
year Congressional was a par 70 golf
course. 1t has been changed to a par
72 layout, and Tommy, with 7 on a
par hole, played that par 73 course
in 63 strokes. Literally, he booted
away three shots on a hole that
should have been a pushover for a
man so accurate with the pitching
clubs, and yet he scored the 18 holes
in 10 shots better than par. Along the
route Tommy bagged a brace of ca
giles and he picked up so many brides
that even he was dizzy. Had he scored
a on that fairly easy fourtethth hole
'now the fifteenth. and played then as
it now Isl he would have had the al
most unbelievable card of so for l8
holes.
Peacock Masters Indian Spring.
THAT round was a sizzler and prob
ably the finest round of golf ever
seen around Washington but there
have been others. For eEample, one
day last August Roger Peacock got all
his clubs working particularly his
putter) and blazed his way around
Indian Spring in So whacks. which
happens to be 9 better than par. He
had done it before, but the 81 of last
year was better one than the e2
Of 1884, when his putter went wild
for him. But. to prove his versatility,
Roger had played the par II Manor
course in 81 strokes in 1898.
Al Houghton, former Kenwood pro.
had three or four good scoring years
between 1881 and 1885. In those
years it got so that Al would bet Oh SO
at Kenwood, a par II golf course,
played in those days under Winter
rules. One day he went completely
dizzy and grabbed himself a 63, a
mark that never has been eoualed
since. But his high spot of scoring
came in April, 1884, when Al breezed
over the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club course in 81 whacks, with
nine brides and nine pars.
Chevy Chase has seen manv a siz-
zling round of golf against that tough
par OF SO, but two of the finest ever
shot over that rugged course were ac-
complished by two of our better
youngsters-Maury Nee of Columbia
and Dick Lunn Of Chevy Chase.
Maury stepped out over a water-soaked
course in the qualifying round of the
1888 invitation tournament and
burned his way over the course for
an amateur record of 81 strokes.
McCarthy-Pitt a Great Match.
A ND at that he finished with a S.
Dick Lunn beat Maury in the
tournament final and then. not to be
outdone. Dick did the same stunt in
the club championship of that year.
Out in SO, against the par of 35. Dick
came to the seventeenth needing a
brace Of pars for 65. But he took 6
on the seventeenth and finished with
ST to tie. Bob Barnett has PLAYED
Chevy Chase several times in 81
strokes, mark that probably never
will be done in competition. But one
OF the finest rounds Of match-play
golf ever put on az Chevy Chase goes
back seven years or so, where Harry
Pitt, then at the crest OF his game,
met Maurice j. Mccarthy in the first
round OF the invitation tournament.
Harry whacked the ball around that
course in 68 strokes and beat Maurice
by stroke and by single hole. There
may have been better matches PLAYED
somewhere. but you would have to 90
far to find EN-.
Ernie Caldwell. the tall string bean
from Baltimore, put on a one-man
show at Columbia in the Middle At
lantic championship final of 1882.
when Bill Lanman did fiat II and
was licked by 3 and g. Ernie did noth-
ing much that day but bag a SO over
course stretched out to its ultimate
limit Of distance. His putter was blaz-
ing, and he holed 'em from any dis
tance.
Roland Mackenzie has done his
share of great scoring. He has played
Columbia several times in 66 strokes
and one day last Summer he got
around Congressional in 66, which is
6 below par. Some day he will get
down belo wthat mark, for Congress
sional, to a man who hits the ball as
far as Roland, is course where some
great scoring can be done.
OF them all, that SO made by
Armour still stands as the top. What
a score 1t would have been had Tom