Show Now He Tells Us Western Open Scores Show No 15 Hardest No 12 Easy By BILL COLTRIN Practically cv everyone has had his fling tUng at analyzing the Salt Lake Country club course but the description description de de- description de- de and opinions on each holeby hole holeby i by Bob Bird written itten for the official off off- I cial Western Vestern Veste i open program is perhaps perhaps per per- per per- haps the best To check up on Birds Bird's offering a study was made of the hole-by- hole hole holc score of ot the 11 top finishers In the Vest Western rn open The chart along with this yarn explains just what these 11 players did in the last two rounds of ot the Western open In other words each hole was played 22 times by the worlds world's leading golfers and the results rec re re- re c corded Those golfers goiters whose scores were used are Johnny Palmer Bobby i I Locke Ed Porky Parity Oliver Jimmy Demaret Ed FurgoL George Payton Payton Pay- Pay ton Sammy Snead Dick Metz Met Jim Ferrier Lloyd Mangrum and Bob Hamilton Mr Bird calls No 1 a reasonably reasonably reason ably moderate beginning hole That sounds about right since the hole would rate about ninth or tenth in difficulty according to the figures figure These golfers made mad only four birdies in 22 tries trIes' on the hole Sin in the last two days The toughest par on ori the course Mr Bird says in the program is No 6 He He could be right At least this is one of oC the toughest holes according to scores registered for lor forthe the chart There were 16 pars only two birdies and a grand total of four bogies shot here on thelast thelast the thelast last two days by the top 11 golfers However one hole will have to I rate slightly more difficult lt That ThatIs Thatis Is No 15 where 16 pars two birdies birdies birdies bird bird- ies three bogIes bogles and one big bad double bogey were turned In No 16 has to be rated rough also since there were three bogies only one birdie and t the erest rest pars turned In there Most everyone was fooled when it came to predicting the easiest hole for the pros Scribe Bird like the others who figured the course before the tourney figured No 3 the short par five hole as the easiest evidently the tough- tough up enIng-up process before the tourney tourney tourney tour tour- ney fixed that According to the statistics No 12 the yard par five hole was the easiest Here th the golfers tanked 15 birdies and three eagles o git it of 22 tries at the hole No bogies or or double bogies were made h here re |