Show S S This Game Gam OF GOLF I By 0 O. B. B Keeler In a perusal of at the statistics st emanating emanating ema ema- from tram the final match of at th the recent national professional golfing golfin championship at the country club I do not recall any important important im urn- combat in which fewer putts were employed in both sides According According According Ac Ac- cording to Armour Burke an and defeated by the finalists in inthe inthe the he earlier rounds the vivid putting pyrotechnics of at the last day merely made nade it unanimous Tom Creavy in defeating Denny Shute 2 and 1 turned in cards o of oC 73 and 72 against 76 and 71 just jus good average golf judged solely by the totals The method of at achieving these thes totals however is not at all aU usual Shute the used only 60 putts In let the two rounds conceding con con- ceding eding him a pair pall of at putts at th the green which was not played Giving Creavy y the same concesIon conces conces- slon and Ion and either or both might easily have taken only one putt- putt he tho new used 56 putts in tho the two rounds or an average of ot 28 putts to the round against an average of at 30 FEW PUTTS IN P. P G. G A. A Years ago I kept track pretty closely losely of pf the putting of ot the winnen winner winne In n our national open championships and nd over a term of at years ears it worked out ut between 32 and 33 putts to the round I do not remember observing ing ng any two rounds in important competition with as few putts as those lose of at Creavy and Shute in the P. P G Gi A A. finals Shute had ten greens in the 35 on n which he used only one putt and nd Creavy had the astonishing number umber of at 15 That each of at the players scored worse than an aver aver- I age ge of at 72 for lor the two rounds Indicates In- In some rather shocking play before belore the putting began Jones Jones' used 33 in the most perfect round of at golf gol he ever played the 66 at Sunningdale and in one of the hardest rounds of his open championship champion champion- ship career the fourth at St Sl Annes Anne's in the British open the same year ear 1926 he scored a 74 with 39 putts in itOn it itOn On the other hand the fewest putts I ever knew him to use in an Important medal round were 28 in his ope opening 68 at St. St Andrews in inthe Inthe inthe the British open of 1927 He used 3 31 34 putts next day |