Evening star., 1948-06-03

It's a two MerTeH Whittlesey.
man team handicap tournament,
similar to many played through
the summer months in the
METROPOLITAN New York area.
The events are tremendously
popular up there.
The idea is for the top players
at the club to get average golfers
as partners, and vice versa, be-
cause two good players would have
little chance. An excellent best
ball by two scratch handicap
players would be only 2 or 3
under par, while good golfer
with an 8 to 10 handicap player
as partner might easily come up
with q 50 or So.
wednesday will be devoted to
a best-ball qualifying round by
the 48 teams entered, with the
medal round to be played from
scratch. The low 16 teams will
comprise the championship fight,
with two other flights provided
for those who fail to make the
grade.
Match play starts next Thurs
day morning, and that's where
the handicaps come in.
The lowest handicapped player
In each match will be reduced to
scratch and the other players cut
proportionately. For instance, II
Bobby Brownell, with a 2, and
Harry Bachman, a 10 handicap,
would meet George Voigt, 4, and
Fred Neuland, IL, Brownell would
drop to scratch and the others
would get two strokes cut from
their allowance. Then three
fourths of the remainder will be
allowed with the strokes to apply
on the score card in the column
for handicap strokes.
Congressional is providing all the
trimmings Of the member-guest
tournaments. Lunch. dinner and
entertainment are planned each
day. Although the honor for
winning the championship flight
will be greater. the prizes will be
the same in all flights-silver ice
buckets to the winners, radios to
the runnersup, duffle bags to the
consolation winners and golf bags
N tho r,oodolisfs
In addition to the teams men,
toned above, pairings include,
with the guest first named in
each instance, Jim Gardner and
r. I. Pruitt, Ralph Bogart and
Ed English, Capt. Fred Mosely
and DR.. w. j. Evans. Earl Nc
Aleer and H. A. Mihills, Martin
Mccarthy and Charles Given,
M. B. Swanson and Billy Shea
and Tommy Webb and Earle
Chesney.
Each guest has been asked to
supply his own club handicap,
par for his home course and the
length Of the layout.
Bob Morris, one of the Dis
trict's top amateur golfers from
Prince Georges, still keeps his
hand in as District public links
committeeman for the USGA.
Morris warns the local municipal
linksnen who hope to qualify for
the National that entries close
June 16 at either Rock Creek,
Anacostia or East Potomac.
Sectional qualifying rounds will
be held June 20 at Baltimore's
Mount Pleasant course, one Of
the Nations finest pay-as-you-
play sites. S. G. Leoffier, boss OF
the District public courses,
promised Morris that the WASH
tngton qualifiers will 60 to At
lanta with expenses paid.
An added attraction to the Ma
tional Public Links champion
ship this year is that the sec
tional qualiflers 60 right into
match play on the scene of the
tournament. AS Gene Sara
zen said at the PGA recently.
that's the way 1t should be. It's
more satisfying to come home
and say you were beaten by a
good player than to say you
didn't even qualify.
Somebody is going to win the
Annapolis Roads Open Monday
with a score of about los and
II you think that's an odd golf
score you're right. because the
s2O0-added event will be played
at q holes.
The Shields brothers. Ray and
Roy. wanted to make their first
tournament in years more than
an l8-hole affair and with only
a nine-hole course they wouldn't
have time to get the expected
field finished with SO holes in one
day. So they settled on ~.