Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 41 | Remarkable Golf Shots by Experts

Remarkable Golf Shots by Experts By MAX MARSTON, New Jersey State Champion. jv ,4! & w. . Hfiir? -sr P: ry --4 h ! 41 f ' f t ; 'Hill lU r- ' ' ft t " , J i-' I fire MA'S fvCraia-tClh 3 ft The national amateur er)arnpion&hip in 1315 over the course of the Country club of Detroit vas urmsual for me, because a two-foot putt beat me for the title, a ud a remarkable recovery shot from a. wood keep nle in the tournament jus, when J was about to be eliminated. Thus shot ca m c in i n y ni a to h with Howard i Let. in the round just before the semifinals. semi-finals. This recovery was the most rc-marke.ble rc-marke.ble shot of its kind I have ever seen. Coming to tlie long sixteenth in my match with Lee. I badly sliced a braasie through a wire fence into a patch of wood. There was some doubt at first aw to whether the ball was out of bounds, but it was found that there was no local lo-cal rule to this effect, so I was permitted to play out without penalty. Jumping over 1 ho fence. I took a difficult sta.nce between the wire and a tree trunk. The safest thing would have ben a cViort, pitch to the middle of the fairway. But it &b happened that there was a narrow r opening between the trees which wa.n ; ! just about in hne v ith the far-away flag. I decided to take this chance, fig- I uring that a halved hole wouldn't. ny. i me any good, an I was 'two down 'it the ' j time. 1 i Using a heavy niblick. I look a barfl swing and met the b;i 11 suanely. ft ' ! flew up cpjickly and barely missed a tree : oti the right in its flight through the 1 . clumn. The ball got clear past the tree? and ; traveled all the way tr (be edge of i he 1 green, front vh?re, a, hort clip shot put me in posh ion for an ea.!v putt. ' Tne recovery from the patch of woo4 waft considered the nmst spectacular shot. -of tho tournapient. Certainly none - a.fl more usciul. for it won the hoie and later tho maJch, though it was necessary to go two ex'ra holes i-fforo securing a victor' o v Mr. Lee. who was on 3 Of 1 tho best players of the T'etrojt club.