TEE PINEEUBST OUTLOOK
PAGF, FOUR
RECOLLECTION'S OF PINEHURST
AND BRAE BURN
By "Jim" Barnes
The first week of April each year
finds the professionals of the country
back in their northern berths starting
out the new year of service to their
club members "teaching the young idea
how to shoot ' and equipping themi
with "tools and sound advice." As a
curtain raiser to those duties and pleas
ures comes the ever popular North and
South Open Championship at Pinehurst,
alway well attended and looked forward
to with eagerness by the "Pros." My
good fortune to compete quite success
fully in many tournaments during 1919
may have had its auspicious beginning
from the success which came to me in
this first Open of the Northern Season
The North and South.
Never before, I am told, have two
courses been used for this event and that
is such a good arrangement I hope it
will be continued. The two courses are
quite unalike, the No. 2 in my opinion
being the best test of golf, and the No.
3 with its fine holes and variations lend
ing an agreeable change and eliminating
some of the monotony of similarity and
repetition.
The ball lies close on the soft sandy
soil at Pinehurst and requires greater
accuracy in playing the strokes than on
the Northern courses of thick, heavy
grass. That adds to the interest and
makes a better test. There is also s
better chance for a long roll of the ball
which is always appreciated.
On the No. 2 course, particularly, well
placed drives are always rewarded by
making the second shot easier. These
second shots on good sand greens are
always interesting and all the ap
proaches have to be of the pitch and
to these greens they are delightful and
some very long puts can be holed, some
times from off the green. When the
ball is given a chance, it keeps the line,
beautifully right up to the cup.
I feel quite fortunate in winning the
North and South Championship last
year from a .fine field. Bob MacDonald
and Pat Doyle were leading at the end
of the first round, but it is quite com
mon in tournaments for Bob to lead at
the first two rounds. It would please
me very much to see him lead at the end
of the tournament, as there is no finer
golf er in the country. His failure to do
so, I believe, may be attributed to his
putter, the occasional failure of which
seems to make him lose confidence. Some
day I hope to see him get over that and
then his name will often head the list.
Paddy Doyle's downfall after his
early lead was possibly due to his mis
fortune of being taken sick the night
before the tournament and so being un
able to last out all four rounds.
The boys were really looking for Fred
McLeod to win, for on a fast course he
is most deadly with every shot. The
rain the night before made the course
slow and affected his chances.
Walter Hagen was not at his best,
but came right back in his very next
tournament, The National Open, at
Brae Burn, and showed the stuff he is
made of, by coming from behind and
finally winning out. He is one of the
few golfers who can win under such
conditions, being a true fighter all the
way. Next year we shall read of his
play in England at the British Open, in
which he has already decided to be a
competitor. We wish him the good luck
to finish at the top, but ho will be up
against the best golfers of the world.
His excellent ability, determination and
fighting qualities will surely place him
among the leaders.
Brae Burn, where the National Open
Championship was held in June, is
recognized as one of the finest courses
in the East; length and accuracy are re
quired all the time, although some of
the sloping ground of the fairways in
troduces a tendency to occasionally bad
fortune beyond' the player's control.
The greens are a fine, fair test of put
ting in general, but in some cases a
little inclined toward trickiness. It is
a most excellent course for a ckam
pionship. I wanted very much to win this tour
nament, for while I have finished first
in most every other yearly open tourna
ment, I have never yet succeeded in win
ning this one. I had been playing fine
golf and felt quite confident, but some
unfortunate incident occured right at
the start which robbed me of the proper
keenness which is so necessary in these
events. My chances of finishing up
well in the prize list disappeared.
J. D. Edgar, who won the French
Open Championship in 1914. from a fine
field which included most of the leading
British players, (Harry Vardon being
in second place six strokes behind) was
a competitor, having 'but a short time
before arrived in this country. His be
ing . linacclimated to our weather and
conditions evidently was the cause of
his poor showing, for I am sure he had
much confidence in being among the
leaders. He is a fine golfer and will al
ways be a contender. Late on in the
season his victory in the Canadian Open
at Hamilton demonstrated his ability.
At the end of the third round Brady's
lead of five strokes over Hagen made
him appear a sure winner, but the lat
ter is never beaten until the last put is
holed and I presume he started that
last round with more confidence in being
able to overcome that handicap than
most any other player or spectator,
possibly Brady feared this confident
spirit and fighting ability which he
knew opposed him. Only Mike can ex
plain the reason for permitting Walter
to get back every one of those five
strokes.
The" gallery was well paid for follow
ing the contest when these two played
another exciting round of elimination,
owing to the tie for first place. It was
an exciting contest with Hagen a victor
when he calmly holed a fifteen foot put
on the last green to win by a single
stroke.
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