Evening star., 1960-07-25
TEE TO GREEN
Give Golf Back TO the PIoyers
By MERRELL WHlTTLEsEY

The MASTERS is A PRETTY GOOD golf tournament
and there's denying the prestige of the British Open
which played the Tooth time couple of weeks ago
at St Andrews. And both of these great CHAMPIONSHIPS
were completed without any trcking by the highly
publicized golf archtect-Robert Trent Jones
But Mr. Jones had been turned loose the FireSone
Country Club at Akron almost year ago and he made
it nightmare for the PGA championship which was won
yesterday by Jay Hebert
You couldn't want tighter finish than the PGA pro-
duced yet In watching it on eevon there something
lacking Almost everybody shooting H. or 72 or 49,
or a. or higher and the bogeys numerous the
finishing holes
THE PROS HAVE BEEN complaining that Jones' who
advises both the United States Golf Association and the
PGA, caters to Arnold Palmer Mike Souchak and the
hers who strong wrists to pow through
the tough rough and reach the long urs in shots
Jones is short, rotund fellow who seems to take
nendSh delight in sending most Of the in the high
7OS and 80s and boasng that nobody will approach par
on course he has designed, re-designed.
Yet, look who almost the PGA championship
The near winner 45yearold Jim Ferrer who
of old knee injury has the strangest swings in
golf Ferrier plays little tournament go but with three
holes to go he was on top.
1T RECALLS AN INCIDENT IN 1885, when Jones
boasted that he had made monster of the Olympic Club
In San Francisco and only of the games great players
would win the National Open championship the San
Francisco course.
So who it? Jack FIeck nice guy, but neither
before nor since has his been household name
Jim TurneSa quoted the other day as saying that
Jones designs golf course for five six players 80 why
not play the championship just between those players and
save expense money for the otherS?"
Mike Souchak said the first thing Jones does when he
redesigns is to add several hundred yards few
sand traps the farways and the par
72 to TO- Mike left the inference that somebody might
bit more imagination
PAR is CHEAP ON THE WINTER TOUR, and the golf
reading public yawns the low-6O scores Tucson
through Florida
Yet there's happy medium. The USGA, with one
two exceptions selects great golf for the Open
championship and it is assumed the PGA follows suit for its
championship
If the selected of proven ability before
Jones was used conSultan why not make few minor
changes and give the pros go at them? After ALL you
could trick Rock Creek nobody could break 100 given
enough time and money.
HEBERT WON $1,000 and of the games major
titles yesterday while Carl Lohren only silver tray
in his victory in the Middle Atlantic Amateur champion
ship at Columbia Country Club Yet the Middle Atlantic
must have been more thrilling to watch.
Columbia, basicaly, is a sound golf The Ma
tonal Open was held there in 1921 and the Canada Cup
in 1854 1t has been the site of dozens of sectional cham
pionshipS The golf sells the tournament
The 900 700 people who watched Lohren and Deane
Bean play ourunder par golf for So holes at Columbia
yesterday were buzzng at the finish Of great golf match
Most Of the people hurried eevon set to watch
the finish Of the PGA and unless they particular
fans OF Jay Hebert, they hardly agog.
Columbia rewards skillful golf shots with brides
Beman and Lohren pair of ightweights with deft
touches who played of the finest golf matches you'll
want to At Akron they might have been srug
Cling to break 80.
Let's give the game and the golf courses, back to the
players