Evening star., 1936-09-05
WAKES too TOUGH
FOR D|FFENBAUGH
Indian Spring Pro Remarks
Big Improvement in Lad
of II Last Year.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.
e6THESE kids develop fast. One
year they are shooting


around 50 and few
months later you can shoot
"a and have tough time licking
them"
George Diffenbaugh, Indian Spring
Country Club mentor, and District,
open champion, was soliloquizing
along the line of how fast young
golfers come along in the game. He
pointed out to the practice tee behind
the Indian Spring golf shop, where
slender, tow-headed Bobby Brownell,
who probably weighs somewhere
around l20 pounds, teeside, was put
ting the sharp edge on his iron shots
In preparation for the District anna
teur championship and the bigger test
TO come a few days hence at Garden
City, where Bobby will have his first
try at the national amateur cham
pionship.
Take Bobby's case. Take him if
you want. You can have him. He's
getting too tough for me. But, seri-
ously, the kid was just another young
golfer last year, boy who dipped
NOWi III GilC llASll ~ D y,
and who usually shot around 80 or
q little worse. But this year, after
he spent several months in Florida,
he suddenly came onto what is his
real golf game. Today that slender
kid Is pretty close to being the best
amateur We have around Washington
OF course, always except Roger Pea
cock, who Is pretty good himself. But
this Brownell boy, with little more
tournament experience and a few
tough matches against good opposi-
tion under his belt, can make Roger
step along.
Makes Puts Look Easy.
YEP, they certainly do move along
fast. That Brownell boy sud-
denly turned into one of the longest
of long hitters, one of the better iron
marksmen and he always has been
an accurate and confident putter
Why the hole looks as big as a bucket
to these kids. They don't even worry
about 5-foot putt. They just bang
1t in, and Bobby is like all the rest
OF 'em. He just rolls 'em in, without
thinking about EN-"
Over at Manor, where Eddie Stevens
and Brownell have been doing a
brother act in informal four-ball
matches this year, and with consider
able success, Eddie has the same high
opinion of the brand of golf shot by
the Brownell kid, at the age of IT
years one Of the most promising
juveniles ever developed around Wash
1ngton. I've seen lot of Bobby's
game this year." says Eddie. who isn't
SO far along in years himself. He has
developed very fast, but he needs
toughening in tournament golf. Right
now he is darned good medal player,
q boy who plays any golf course in
good figures, but I have an idea he
may not be quite SO good at match
play. This District championship and
the national will show something along
the match play line. But right now he
Is good enough and he will be better.
The funny part of it is that Bobby
shot 70 and II at Columbia, which
seems to be a tougher course than
Manor, and yet he hasn't broken 70
on this course"
Ordered to Take 1t Easy.
RoBBY BRoWNELL probably will
~ be the toughest youngster in the
field to beat If he enters the Middle
Atlantic Junior championship next
Wednesday at Congressional. His chief
opposition will come from Billy Dett-
weller and Billy Shea, the two Con-
gressional kids. who can play that
course to the queens taste. and from
Clarke Lea and Frank Sutton, the
Richmond youngsters.
And Bobby still is far from q husky
youngster. His doctor has ordered him
not to tire himself out with too much
golf, and he is taking treatments to
build himself up. That's why he went
to Miami last Winter. But this kid,
a little under weight, wiry and strong
in the spots where strength brings
lusty hitting of golf ball, can go for
our apples any time in any golf match
At the age Of II he easily can be
real sensation in that coming national
joust.