Evening star., 1947-06-19
|Worsham 5 Erratic II
Fails 10 Disturb Him
In P6A Qualifying
by MerreH WnIffiesey
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DETROIT, june 19.-Conndencs
probably Is the greatest asset in
golf, and because that National
Open victory helped Lew Worsham
build up stock In himself. The
Chin Is not in the least disturbed
over his opening "A In the National
PGA championship.
This week-long tournament Ii the
last holdout against medal play
golf, and the 18-hole rounds yss-
terday and today only serve to c,it
the field from 141 to 81 match play
qualifiers who will scrap man for
man until the fnalists play . total
Of 214 holes.
A pair of 74s. or possibly stroke
or two higher, will qualify, and
Worsham's only objective In the
first round was to shoot score low
enough TO keep from having to
really 60 to work today.
Washington's Open champion was
1 over par at one time In that
round of "a, and after he hooked
a tee shot on Is he borrowed some
baseball parlance and yelled, Take
me out, coach" But he came back
with two brides from there In.
Demaret Registers 6S.
Top money winner Jimmy Dema-
ret was the only national golf1ng
figure OF the last two years to
land among yesterdays i've TO-
breakers. Most of the first-day
stories already were written when
stubby, 38-year- Clarence Doser,
q semifinalist in 1945, came in with
q 5-under par 81 to top Demaret
and Claude Harmon, the Winged
Foot IN. W and Seminole Club
(Florida) pro-, who had 68s. Com
parative unknowns Jim Milward OF
Madison, Wis, and Dick Shoemaker
shot $685. The scoring was not q
great deal different from the first
round of the National Open, al
though the qualifying days here
have none Of the pressure Of the
Open championship, and this is an
entirely different type golf course.
The 6,9o4-yard Plum Hollow
course was not made artificially
tough for the tournament. It's al
most pleasure to get into the
rough. The great hazards here are
huge traps that are SO deep several
pairs Of steps lead into each trap.
The fairways are velvety and the
green's conducive to good putting.
The length does not bother wor-
sham, Sam Snead, Chick Harbert.
Ben Hogan, Demaret. Lloyd Man
grum and the like. Some 19th-hole
quarterbacks are saying that Bobby
Locke has far less chance here than
he did to win the Open, but with
few exceptions Locke doesn't con-
cede any distance. The South AZ
rican champion started with Q
neat 10.
Greater Test Of Coli.
The pros will not stand for any
more match play tournaments on
the tour, but this one 10 somewhat
of . novelty. It Is, perhaps, q
greater test Of golf, q fact proven
because 1t has taken greater golfers
to win it, but it does not have the
field Of the National Open. ANA
teurs, naturally, are barred and
many Of the upcoming pros have
not filled their apprenticeship, In
cluding Ed Furgol, Garry Middlecof
and George Payton.
Lawson Little said once that the
older you get the moro you prefer
medal play golf. which 10 the usual
stroke competition. But many Of
the great players were tops both ut
match and medal, including Walter
Hagen, who won this fvs times. and
Gene Sarazen, three. Bobby Jones,
equally adept at either, had little
choice. San Francisco used to be
a match play event, but the pros
voted 1t down.
Worsham, who played an insignifi-
can't amount Of amateur golf and did
not compete In the National PGA
until last year, when he lost in the
second round to Harry Bassler, has
played little match play golf.
Wasted Shots on Two Holes.
Lew would have had a good match
play round yesterday, f1ve brides,
but he also had six bogies. On two
holes he completely wasted shots.
one in q heavy patch OF grass and
one In q trap, where he barely
the ball each time. He had
80 puts for the round, hit II
green's in regulation figures.