Evening star., 1939-06-14
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Too Tricky 10 Yield
Score Under So
Competitive Mark Is 81.
Though Mcleod, Home
Pro, Has Hit 65s
BY WALTER McCALLUM,

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
par means nothing" said Fred
Mcleod. "It's a good yardstick for
good golf, but it doesn't seem to
mean much any more" Nor did the
little Columbia pro allude particu-
larly to the record smashing 50
made by Harold Gug) McSpaden in
practice round at San Antonio
Sure they'll break so in a tourna-
ment some day." Freddie said.
But don't think any one ever
will crack 60 on this Columbia
course, or on any other course which
has fairway watering and good
deal of length" Freddie himself
never has been down near a score in
the high sos, but over the q years
he's been around Columbia he has
done pretty fair job of smacking
par for row of brides. The little
fellow ChonesD has lost track of
the times he has played the Colum-
bia course in IS strokes.
when it got to around 20 times
I sorta lost track of it," he said.
Maybe III get lower some day, but
I don't imagine so. Sixty-f1ve isn't
bad score. It's S below par on
course where there isn't so much
chance to knock off brides unless
you happen to be putting very we'll"
Freddie holds the non-competitive
record for Columbia, but the COM
petitive record stands to the credit
of two other fellows not named Joe.
Diffenbaugh's 81 No Winner.
Back in late September of 1884
George Diffenbaugh, then of Indian
Spring. broke out in rash of brides
in the Maryland open championship
of that year, bagging six in a round
of ST, to set competitive mark that
still stands as the professional COM
petitive record George had brides
on the second, sixth, seventh,
twelfth, fourteenth and eighteenth
holes. But his card was marred by
trip of buzzards on the fifth, ninth
and sixteenth. George didn't win
the championship, for despite his g.
Al Houghton nosed him out by a
shot.
Roger Peacock, then probably
Washington's best amateur golfer,
got red-hot on an August day in
1886 to score another competitive
81 and set record for amateurs
that still stands. Roger had five
brides in that medal round, played
In the sectional qualifying rounds
for the national amateur champion
ship, and twice went over par.
But the hottest round of golf ever
played at Columbia in match play
stands to the credit of Ernie Cald-
we'll of Baltimore. Ernie has been
a good golfer for 10 years. but he
never had been a hot putter up to
the June day in 1882 when he met
1t. w. K. Lanman of Indian Spring
in the final round of the Middle
Atlantic championship. Bill Lanman
shot a holed-out II and was licked
3 and. z by the wild man from Balti-
more. Ernie ratified puts in from
all over those expansive putting
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Diegel Hot on Last. -
Fifteen years ago Leo Diegel won
a 100-to-1 bet from Guy Standifer
that he couldn't play the last nine
in 20 shots. He did it-and collected
And back in November of 1888 Nc
Iced, tuning up for the senior
P. G. A. championship, which he
later won, played the same nine in
80 strokes. to the utter dismay of
Emil Leoff1er, Perry Del Vecchio and
Ted Luther, visiting firemen from
Pittsburgh.
That same Ernie Caldwell likes
the Columbia course, for he later
shot the layout in 81 in competi-
tive round to tie Peacock's mark.
Not long ago Bob Jones played the
course in SO, holing trap shot at
the eighteenth for a 3.
But over the years Columbia-one
of the great golf courses of the land,
and the only one in this sector on
which national open has been
played-has stood the test of time.
No man is going to turn that Co.
lumbia course into race track and
burn it up with scores in the low
Cos. It's too fine course and there
are too many spots along the route
where good score may be wrecked.