Evening star., 1949-07-03
Never a Dull Shot
AS SIammer Clicks;
Penna a Gallery Hif
By ChorIey Price

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known author, Samuel ]. Snead.
1T is quite easy" said MIR.
Snead in his opening paragraph.
All you have to do, we gather
from the text. is hit your first
drive 200 yards. then pitch it
five feet from the hole. Sink
this for your first birdie. On the
next hole leave your drive three
feet short of the green. Dire-
gard the fact that the green u
323 yards from the tee. Chip 1t
close and putt out for your bird.
On the third you hit . drive and
q short iron on the green and
then. just to prove you are hu-
man, take two puts.
After this you manage to hit
a par-5 hole with drive and
a four iron, take two puts, and
settle for a birdie. Follow this
up with a deuce on q par-3 Job.
On the sixth hole. flabbergast
the gallery by three putting after
you have managed to crash your
tee shot we'll over 300 yards. In
turn you promptly miss an g.
footer for a bird on the next and
make up for it by sinking an al
most identical putt for birdie
3 on the next hole.
Scratch down a 4-under 80 on
your score card for your first nine
by taking a legitimate four on the
ninth.
Open up your back nine by
hitting the par-5 tenth which
measures 528 yards. by reaching
it with a drive and midiron.
then take two puts for your
second birdie 4.
On the 11th. knock your second
shot stiff-approximately three
feet-and then ease it in for still
another birdie. BY the time you
get to No. IL brides will be getting
monotonous. so merely take a par
4. On the next hole. it will be
about time to get back to taking
3's. so roll in 20-footer after
getting down with drive and a
six iron. Grab your par 3 on the
succeeding hole and then be salts
fed with a par on the 18th. Since
the 10th measures slight 516
yards, make q point to hit your
drive we'll over 300 yards. You see.
this makes it easy to hit the green
with an iron, although almost
every one else in the world would
have to use a wood. Then all you
have to do is two-putt for your
birdie
Well, along about this time you
stand 8 under par, so finish 3-4
which is two pars, for "a. But
don't start patting yourself on the
back. You really haven't done any
thing remarkable. The only thing
out of the ordinary you have ac-
complished is to one-putt six
greens, a total of 80 puts. which is
six under the regulation 36.You can
be a little proud of the fact that
you have hit every green in two
shots, except the par 3'S, which
you hit in one shot each. and two
of the three par SIS which you hit
in two instead of the regulation
three. That isn't bad, as a mat
ter of fact it is two less than ac-
cepted perfect.
Toney Penna. dark and hand
some veteran of the tournament
circuit who is now the present
North South Open champion. has
made solid hit with Washington
fans. On every green. where the
gallery congregates, Toney has a
remark for the fans. If he sinks
any putt of consequence, he pulls
it out of the cup with a strut and
a smile and any one OF a bagful
of remarks that years of banging
around the circuit have guaranteed
him will bring laugh. In yester-
days round he strengthened his
hold on the gallery's affections by
requesting the marshals not to
move the crowd back so he could
line up putt. Leave them
alone" he commanded, they're
paying customers" The tour could
uses a few more muggers like
Penna.
A consensus among the pros re-
veals that the best hole on the
course is the ninth. Most Of the
play for play brigade regard it as
the tops among the 18 from the
standpoint Of high-powered golf.
Lawson Little, one Of the few
golfers in the world whom you
could call great without getting
an argument from any one, was
stricken with perhaps the tough
est break of the tournament. Co
ing to the 18th hole with an even
par score. Little strong armed one
through the woods. watched it hit
a tree. and failed to see it fall.
After considerable searching a
spectator happened to notice the
ball stuck firmly between the
crook of two branches. Lawson
took a stroke-and-distance pen
atty.
Despite the fact that he has no
visible excess weight, National
Open Champion Cary Middlecof
seems to perspire more than any
other contestant. Coming to the
10th hole he was ringing wet. His
pants, shirts, and sun visor looked
as though he had been caughtsin
a rain storm. Although he plays
golf strictly like man at work.
Middlecoff has captured the ad-
miration Of the gallery. Once he
requested in a loud voice that sew
eral members of it please refrain
from moving about while he was
putting-tantamount to slapping
/ t.