Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-04-16 | Page 15 | Cooper Explains Difficult Shot of Tricky 'Hanging Lie' Variety

Cooper Explains Difficult Shot Of Tricky Hanging Lie Variety I By ART KRENZ NEA Service Golf Writer S Light Horse Harry Cooper had todo to todo todo do some tall 1311 galloping in the Western West West- ern era open at Peoria last summer ir in nosing out Ky Laffoon i in a playoff of two hole 18 rounds Trailing Laffoon by four strokes at atthe atthe atthe the end of the first nine Cooper hammered hammered ham ham- awa away until he had erased this advantage They faced the seventeenth seventeenth seven seven- t nth all even This hole was a long par 3 of yards A cros wind cross wind made holding the green difficult Selecting a No 2 iron Cooper hooked his tee tec shot into the rough 70 feet from the green Laffoon put his first one on and had two putts for a par To lose a stroke here probably meant losing the match to Cooper On approaching his ball to pIa play his second out of the rough Cooper found the pellet on a bank This position position tion called for a shot to be pa played ed from a hanging lie He Forced to stand above the ball the Englishman played playe l lIthe Ithe the shot with a niblick scooped the sphere out and laid It three feet from ithe the cup He sank the putt and kept the match alive Threes were scored on the eighteenth eight eight- and each finished with a c cord card rd of 67 forcing the e pla playoff off into another 18 IS' holes in which th Cooper defeated I his younger opponent 66 to 69 It was the gre greatest test shot I played in the tournament Cooper relates Toe The contour of the ground called for tor a shot that had bad to be hit from the inside I had 1 to stand above the ball which I played from about way half between my feet The success of the shot depended on hitting the ball with an open blade and putting enough spin on it to hold the green Copyright 1935 NEA Service Inc