Show i iBy i I SPORT PARADE V By Oscar Olcar Fraley 4 ls BIRMINGHAM Mich June Tune 15 UP UP-A UP A man selling straight razors could have wound up with witha a fortune Friday as the bells tolled on the first round of the U. U S S. S Open Golf Tournament The cream of the nations nation's golfers golfer's golfers golfers golf golf- ers er's just thought the Oakland I Hills course was tough before the country's top fa fairway classic started Now they know it Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- ing has ever er been seen before beCore Noth-I Noth such as the horrible scoring which teed of off this one Get Gel a load of oC this you hackers and you'll shank your shots without hanging your head every time the pro strolls past with that condescending smile on oa his kisser 59 Over 80 There were entrants in the first round of the Open Thurs Thurs- day Of that number 59 so-called so experts hacked their way around this bit of Atlantic City City Michi n 1 gan Michi real estate in 80 80 or or more more blows Most of the time lime it was I more And three of them took 90 or more whacks in a tournament I which usually has a fair lair share of and even one 64 Speaking of that 64 it was posted at Merion Country Club last Jast year by a long-hitting long young man from Birmingham Ala named Lee Mackey Young Mr 11 Mackey l was here Thursday but j II with not the same results This time it was a horrendous 43 43 1 41 41 84 You t think h i n 11 k the weary arm weary arm Mackey l had trouble Well two themselves I other pros chopped out which probably will send them home the long way probably probably probably ably via Shanghai Leland Pyle of Overland Park Kan turned in a laborious 49 42 9 42 while Ted paged Maged of Farmington Mich l had a 48 Pyles Pyle's pile of 49 blows won top honors in the wrong direct direction on I II I I Takes Terrible 92 But the crocheted niblick for lor forgoing forgoing going nowhere in the greatest number of of shots went to ama- ama Hal Ifal Haddock of Denver Get a load of oC this fellows fellows he he had a 46 46 92 Well VelI including a nine on a par four job at least he was steady One of the most disgusted was Chandler Harper of Portsmouth I Va ra the Professional ProCessional Golfers Association Association As As- I champion Getting more violent on every shot Harper I had it when he reached the end I of 14 holes seven over par He folded his tee shots and went elsewhere Henry Williams of Kutztown Pa the other 1950 P I G A finalist stuck it out and manfully reported a 42 39 42 39 81 The pros before the morning was half over were ready to give this chunk of territory back to the It was just too tough for them Only Sam Snead and I Sam Byrd were able to crack par paron paron I Ion on the front nine nobody did it fleeing home On the last four I rugged holes of that backbreaking break back ing chamber of horrors they call the back nine only two Smiley Quick and Ed Furgol did better belter than regulation figures All in all it was a tough Thursday Thurs Thurs- day day and and everybody who still had the strength to lift a putter was afraid today was going to be bea a black Friday So go ahead fellows hook it or slice it or do whatever comes naturally These guys would sure like to be in your place right now now- |