Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-11

lON diC SOu sOlllS W ISuTe
a fellow like Chandler Harper,
who has won two of the last
three tournaments on the pro
circuit, one over probably the
easiest course the pros play all
year, and the other over the
toughest?
Chandler had the touring pros
In his own backyard at Cavalier
Country Club when he won the
Virginia Beach Open with even
65s. That's the type course
where Mike Souchak used a
driver only twice in 10 holes.
On the other par 4s and SIS Mike
was sacrificing distance, which
is not important there, for &C.
curacy.
Harper putted 'em silly at
Virginia Beach. playing green's
he has known since he was a
youngster.
Two weeks later he won the
$4,000 Colonial Invitation at
Fort Worth by eight strokes,
beating Hogan, Nelson, Littler
and Middlecoff, among others.
That brings to mind a late
evening discussion during the
recent Masters tournament, when
two Texas golf writer's were
saying the Colonial Club course
was the toughest in the country
It's over 1000 yards and the
previous eight tournaments there
had produced some of the high
est scoring on the tour.
Yet Harper shot 69-65-7O-72,
breaking three tournament rec
ords en- route.
If Chandler isn't careful those
IeXans are going to be claiming
him He won the Ell Paso Open
In 1858, the Texas Open in "a
and the Colonial, their pride and
JOY, in IS. With Hogan and
Nelson in virtual retirement and
Jack Burke and the other Tex
ans not having won anything
lately, they're liable to say.
"Chandler's our boy"
x x X
Dick lanes, the Court House
pro. told an amusing story on a
couple of his members.
In the recent spring handicap
match play tournament, played
in flights of Is players each,
lanes used the 32-player match
play score sheet. He had the
first and second flights on one
sheet. the third and fourth on
another, etc.
Dana Jones won the third
flight and Phil Fox the fourth.
But inasmuch as the larger
sheets are carried out another
match. Jones and Fox thought
they only had reached the final.
They passed up their usual
foursomes last week end and
went at it head-to-head. 1t was
a good match too, close all the
way and both played good golf.
They reported the result to
lanes, who had to tell them that
all they we're playing for was
exercise. That is. after he found
out what had happened. 1t con-
fused him, too. for moment.
x X y
Woodmont's pro and the third
and fifth brackets will play at
home in Sundays Maryland
State team championship final
against the Country Club of
Maryland, but that wasn't par
ticularly good news to Billy Bup-
pert, who will play in the pro
spot for Woodmont against Andy
Gibson.
AS an amateur Buppert was a
member of the Country Club of
Maryland for five years, and he
knows it much better than he
does Woodmont. Billy was hop
ing the toss of the coin would
put him out of town. Buppert
will be playing for Woodmont
because Pro Clarence Doser was
invited to the Greenbrier Open
that starts Thursday.
X X X 4
There are eight par 3 holes at
Glenbrook, which, of course, les
sens the odds on aces. There
were two more there day or so
ago, one with an odd twist.
Pro Smitty Padgett reported
Bill Hegle played two consecu-
tive holes in three shots. On
the par-four 18th he knocked an
8-iron second shot into the cup
for an eagle deuce, and on the
188-yard 18th he smacked