Evening star., 1947-05-31
|1riumphs by ; and 7
AFTER Being 5 Down
EAf End Of First 9
BY fhe Assoeiafsd Press

CAFSNCUSIIE. May 3l.-Willlf
Tu1nesa Of White Plains, N. Y, de-
| feated his Walker Cup teammate
Dick Chapman of Pinehurst, N. C.
3 and 2, in their 36-hole final match
today to win the British amateur
golf championship.
/ Five down at the end of the frs
Icine holes and apparently doomed
to take a bad licking, Turnesa raj.
lied to win five straight holes ane
square the match at the end Of ths
morning round.
| He took the lead for the first time
at the 9th hole in the afternoon
clung tenaciously to his advantage
| in a hot fight down the home stretch
and closed Chapman out on the 34tt
green.
| Plays Great Golf.
Stroking like an autonaton, once
he got poor Al out of his system
on the first nine holes of the match
Turnesa played some of the Creates
golf of the week as he shot the fina
rs holes in three strokes under ever
fours over the soggy Carnoustie
layout.
Pars on the 32d and 33d holes en-.
abled him to close out Chapman
who couldn't get down his puts. Or
the 34th Chapman studied his putt
nearly five minutes and stroled il
carefully, but it refused to drop anc
Turnesa was the champion.
Willie-the only amateur in 9
golf1ng family of six sons-pourec
par after par at Chapman all after.
noon and each time Chapman left
an opening.
In becoming the sixth American
to capture the British title, Turness
for the last Is holes shot brano
of golf that would have done credit
to any of his money-playing broth
ers in their prime. One of his mosi
noted brothers, Joe, went arounc
with him today and advised hin,
frequently.
| Excellent Recovery Shots.
On his sizzling 25-hole stretch
Willie took only two fives, all the
rest were fours and threes, though
several times he was forced to make
great recoveries from traps or make
| good with his deadly chip shots tt
4,hold back Chapman's challenge.
Chapman, himself. had only one
poor stretch-on the second nine
where he scared to a Al to lose his
flve-hole lead. He was only / ovel
par going out in the afternoon anc
was even fours coming back when
the match ended.
The high caliber of their play was
the more remarkable for the fact
that the course was flooded by an
early morning downpour taht de-
layed the tee-off for more than
an hour. Water was inches deer
in many traps.
Chapman started out as though
he would win decisively, knocking
down a series of long puts to win
four of the first five holes.
| He knocked in a 25-foot putt to
win the first hole with a birdie 8
sank 35-footer for another bird
on the second, and then suffered
his only lapse of the front nine as
he hit the rough and lost the third
! Turnesa Wins No. 4.
He won the fourth with a par as
Turnesa 3-putted the fifth with a
birdie by holing curving 25-foot
putt, and the long sixth with par-5
when Turnesa took two shots from
the rough. After the seventh and
eighth had been halved in even pars
Chapman won the ninth to turn
Sup as Turnesa, still struggling, hit
his second into tall grass. Turnesa S
40-foot putt for a half hit the cup
and bounced out.
Turnesa, apparently In for bad
beating when they finished the first
nine. ripped off successive scores of
444 24-two brides and three pars-
to win five straight holes from Chap
man and square the match at the
14th hole as a gallery of about 1000
raised yell.
Turnesa drove into the rough on
the 453-yard 10th, but made great
recovery with a wood and reached
the green in three. Chapman
planted his second in bunker and
required two shots to get out and
roll across the green. He conceded
it to Turnesa.
Barely Misses 30-Footer.
Again Chapman needed three
strokes to reach the green on the
18th, and his six-footer for a halt
hung on the lip. Turnesa pulled his
drive into the rough, but put his
second on and barely missed a 30
footer for birdie.
I On the 18th Chapman put his Sec
ond atop a hump guarding the green
and Clipped short of the carpet with
his third. Willie holed a 30-inch
putt for his winning 4.
/, Tt1rnesa shot brides on the l68-
yard 18th hole and the 473-yard 18th
to square the match. He curled his
Iputt around a partial stymie to get
down from six feet for his birdie 2
on the 18th after Chapman had
trimmed the cup from seven feet.
On the long 14th Turnesa loftec
his third shot feet from the hols
and knocked it down. Chapman
after driving in the rough, wounc
up with another 7-footer for &
half, but again missed it.
| Rally by Chapman.
! They halved the 457-yard 15tf
in par IS, Turnesa again getting
down with a single putt after clout.
ing his drive into short rough.
Chapman rallied to take tn.
shorty 18th with a par when Tur,
mesa missed an 8-foot putt fo'
a half but Willie deedlocked i
again with q on the 454-yard It'll
when Chapman missed a 5-footer
Both got down in par IS on th'
home hole, Chapman failing to sinl
from about feet for a win. Tur,
mesa negotiated a partial stymie t
gain his half and go to lunch al
square.
just as Chapman was hot on tht
first nine, which he shot in 2-lIn
Ider-par 81, Turnesa sizzled on tn,
way back with his 35.
Morning round;
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