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OUTIaOOK,
VOL. XXIV. NO. 13
MARCH 10, 1921
10 CENTS
SENIORS' TOURNAMENT
THEORY VS. FACT IN GOLF
L. A. Hamilton Wins Chief
Honors
The first Seniors' Tournament played
at Pinehurst on March 3 and 4 brought
out a field of 98 contestants ranging in
age from mere lads of fifty-five to middle-aged
gentlemen in the upper seven
ties. The tournament consisted of two
days' play, 18 holes each day, and prizes
were awarded for the best gross, best
net each day, and best selected holes
scores.
L. A. Hamilton of Garden City, turned
in gross scores of 82-76 158, and led the
field by a 12-point margin from Dr. J.
S. Brown, at 89-81170. Hamilton also
led in the selected holes contest with a
round of 72-369 for his best 18 holes,
and as he elected to annex the trophy
that went with that particular achieve
ment the prize for the best gross score
for the 36 holes was awarded to Dr.
Brown. George T. Dunlap of Plainfield,
took third honors, at 90-84 174, and
was followed by H. W. Croft of Green
wich, and W. E. Wells of Oakmont, who
tied at 175.
Dunlap finished with a score of 78-7
71 in the selected holes contest and tied
for second honors with D. S. Brassil of
Scarsdale, whose best 18 were played in
85-1471. Dr. Brown and W. E. Wells
followed, at 74.
George W. Statzell of Aronimink, won
the Frank Presbrey prize for the best
net round the first day with a score of
84-1470. Colonel H. W. Ormsbee of
Massapequa, was second best in this di
vision at 98-27 71, and S. M. Morgan
of Altoona, Andrew Baxter of Wykagyl,
and T. S. Wheeler of Augusta, tied at 72
for third honors in this division.
In the second day's play, D. S. Bras
sil of Scarsdale, won the best net score
prize at 94-2767, and was followed by
George T. Dunlap, and Commodore J. T.
Newton of Brooklyn, at 97-2770.
One of the most interesting features
of the tournament was the close race be
tween the oldest two contestants, John
Carley of Sharon, Pa., aged 78, and Dr.
Carlos F. MacDonald of New York, who
only recently celebrated his seventy-fifth
anniversary. Carley, the dean of the
tournament, finally won out with a gross
total of 221 for the two rounds as against
224 for Dr. MacDonald, and also tri
umphed in the net score race at 169 to
170 for the doctor, despite of one stroke
handicap advantage in the latter 's favor.
The following is an alphabetical list of
scores of those who turned in cards.
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A. B. Alley
C. H. Ash
S. K. Ames
N. L. Bates
D. S. Brassil
J. S. Brown
J. E. Brodhead
A. Baxter
M. Burke '
Jas. Barber
G. H. Converse
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(25
(24
(18
(27
(11
(30
(22
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83-89-
80- 93-
82- 89-
83- 85-76-67-
78- 70-76-83-72-76-84s84-
81- 82-
79- 87-88-93-
-172
-153
-160
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-159
-148
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-166
-181
THE PINEHURST CHAPEL
SUNDAY SERVICES
Holy Communion, 9:15 A. M.
Children's Service, 1U:00 A. M.
Morning Services
and Sermon, 11:00 A. M.
(Continued on Page Eleven)
. ROMAN CATHOLIC
SERVICES
Early Mass .6 :15 A. M.
Second Mass. 8:00 A. M.
When visiting Priest is at Pinehurst.
By Jack Hoao
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Editor
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How many clubs do you carry that you
seldom if ever use? If you have no confi
dence in a club or in your .ability to play
it the club should have no place in your
bag, it is dead timber and the sooner it
is disposed of the sooner will the tempta
tion to experiment with it be removed
and the faster your game will improve.
How often do you hear a defeated golfer
say, "I wasn't hitting them well so I
changed my stroke or tried out a club
which I seldom use."
If you were seriously ill with pneu
monia and your doctor said "I don't
seem to be helping him much, he's a sick
man, guess I'll give him a dose of arse
nic and see how it works on a man in his
condition" you'd call him several varie
ties of fool and fire him at once, and yet,
you are just as foolish when you experi
ment in the face of a desperate situation
during a golf match.
A good golf game is made up of a
series of strokes which you know that you
can rely upon, and when playing a match
you should never attempt a shot which
you are not confident that you can pull
off successfully. Golf is a game of get
ting the ball from the tee to the hole in
the fewest number of strokes, and a man
should use the club which he has confi
dence in regardless of the opinion of
others or how much he violates the theo
ries of the game. Golfers learn by prac
tice but a close match is no time or place
to experiment in, and the man who wins
is the fellow who knows his own limita
tions and does not attempt the impossible.
To return for a moment to your bag
of clubs. The writer examines hundreds
of sets a year and times without number
we've had a golfer say in answer to a
query, "Oh, yes, I carry that club but I
seldom use it. I hit a good ball with it
one day and bought it, but now I can't
seem to do anything with it." And yet
he kept it in his bag and made some poor
caddy tote it day after day. A close
examination of the offending club usu
ally showed that it did not correspond
with the player's other clubs, and often
it was the lie of the club that was at
fault.
The real difference between the clubs
of an amateur and a pro lies in the uni
formity of their lies. A pro realizes the
importance of having the lie of his clubs
fit himself while the amateur buys his
clubs on a hit-or-miss plan, and it is sel
dom that we find a well-matched and well
graded set. Another important differ
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