The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
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REIDSVILLE, Sept. 16.-P)-
When steady rains today forced a
further postponement of play in
the Carolinas Open Golf Tourna-
ment here, the tournament COM
mittee decided to replay the en-
tire tournament next weekend,
it was announced by Alex Johnson,
chairman of the tournament COM
mittee.
The tournament which involves
the Carolinas Professional Golf
AS ociation championship will be
reduced from the originally plan
ned 70 holes to 81 holes. The first
q holes will be played next Sat
urday and the final q holes will
be played Sunday.
All scores of last Friday will
be thrown out and a completely
new start made. All players who
had paid their entry fees will be
eligible to compete without fur
Their fees. Any person who had not
previously entered may do so dur
ing the current week.
While it was realized by johnson
and other members of the tourna-
me1ft committee that the decision
to eliminate earlier scores and
replay the tournament imposed a
severe penalty on Orville White,
of Winston-Salem, who was lead
ing by two strokes after the first
days play and other golfers who
had scored well in the earlier
! rounds, it was the belief that the
best interest of all concerned could
be best served by starting the
tournament afresh next weekend.
With the weather having al
ready forced postponement for two
days it was considered impracti-
cal to resume play before next
Saturday. The committee feared
that with SO great lapse of time
during which the contestants
would of necessity return to their
homes only those players well up
in the scoring would return to COM
plete play and the field would be
reduced to a mere handful of play
ers unless new start was made.
The committee felt an obligation
to the persons who had purchased
tickets for the event and did not
think it was fair to them if the
field was cut to a half dozen or
so of golfers who were close on
the heels of the leader after last
Fridays rounds .. by making a
new start next Saturday it was be-
lieved a full entry list would be on
hand seeking the more than $1,000
in prize money contributed by
j various individuals and firms.
George Corcorab, Greensboro pro
and president of the Carolinas
PEA, while keenly regretting the
necessity of discarding his first
DAYS fine score which left him
in second place two strokes be-
hind White and two strokes ahead
of the third placer agreed with
the tournament committee that the
course they decided to pursue in
replaying the event probably was
the best plan.
Naturally the entries who had
been unable to score well in the
first days play which was con-
Quoted under most unfavorable
conditions were happy to have the
oppo- tunity Of starting all over
when it is hoped the course will
have dried out sufficiently to en-
courage improved scores.
It was generally conceded that
the water soaked condition of the
course last Friday and the continu.
alton of play in a steady downpour
of rain ran UP many strokes in the
individual scores. Only White and
Corcoran were able to break the
par for the nine-hole layout in
their aggregate 27-hole scores for
the first day. Tournament officials
are confident that the field as a
whole will turn in a much lower
score if playing conditions return
to normal when play begins next
Saturday.
New pairings and starting times
will be arranged when the players
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