| Show Mangrum Fazio Play Off Today for Title After Dramatic Tie in Utah Golf I A Llo Lloyd d 1 M Mangrum a an n g r rum u m leading t mone money winner vinner in golf goll this year c seemed to be on h hf his wa way to first prize in the thc Utah Open tournament Monday as he went vent one stroke ahead of George Fazio on the third hole at Fort Douglas in their play- play off oft Mangrum Ian l m birdied the hole holev v alter after both pla players ers had bad paned the first two 3 30 n I With ith a big biff colorful gallery Th streaming out be behind ind them Tr- Tr Lloyd Mangrum and George GeorgeI t I George Fazio both purred the first hole bole at Fort Douglas In Inthe the hole 18 ph playoff off for lor the Utah Open golf Joll championship Mangrum's 1 drive was about i I yards on the downhill hole I and his second shot hot was just short hort He chipped up to within j I 1 six inches of the cup and sank the for his par Fazio hit a beautiful approach out of the edge of the rough after driving about yards His birdie putt just missed and he ho had bad a 12 for lor the par The weather was hot and c humid with a few drops of rain 11 1 falling failing just before the two golfers golfers golf golf- ers rs left the first tee at 2 pm p.m. 1 1 7 B By Jack Schroeder In one of the most niost dramatic golf golfi i rounds ever recorded in the historic hIstorIc his hIs- tone Utah Open Lloyd Mangrum the suave Tam Tarn 0 o pro and George Fazio razio a surprise contender battled to a tie at the end of 72 holes Dholes at Fort Douglas Sunday A special hole 18 play-off play willbe will willbe be held Monday at 2 pm p.m. Both finished with identical cards Mangrum carded 69 Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day as Fazio got his third 68 But ol 01 No 18 green held the I 0 answer as to whether there would be another round of play Monday Both golfers were tied coming cominI into thc the last hole Jimmy Demaret had eliminated himself earlier when he took a par 72 to slide to a for forI forthe I the meet d V- V Playing with Skip Alexander the three e golfers put their second shot fairly close to the pin Both were putting for birdies but Fazio figured figured fig- fig 1 the roll a little short and his ball hung on the lower lip of the cup cup and trickled away rot nit Too High A I- I Mangrum watching the Fazio putt put stroked his ball a little higher highers s J but it proved to be just a little bit too much and it slid off the top topI I rim of the cup Fazio sunk his and Mangrum watched his ball make menacing moves toward the top edge of the cup but finally fell through It co couldn't have ha been a more dramatic finish The entire gallery was cas clustered around the green since the Mangrum-Fazio- Mangrum Alexander trio was the last of the v name big-name threesomes to come in t It was Ironical that both the contenders contenders con- con tenders Henders fighting it out for the 2150 top prize e should be playing in the same threesome It narrowed nar- nar narrowed narrowed rowed the possibilities to just those two after Demaret reported with witha a Fazio whose greatest claim to fame was a 1947 victory in the Canadian Open had very little difficulty difficulty difficulty dif dif- dif dif- with the Fort Douglas greens the greens the very thing that had fooled most of the top pros The friendly pro who hails from Conshohocken Conshohocken Conshohocken Con- Con Pa used his trusty trust putter to great advantage throughout through through- out the the- tourney 0 Consistent Golf M Mangrum who is golf's leading leadin money mone winner for 1948 played playe very consistent golf throughout the meet He is undoubtedly one of the greatest putters in the game today Dr Cary Gary shot a sparkling spar spar- kUng hUng 66 Sunday to bring his four- four day total to and get a tie for third place with Demaret Middle- Middle coff cot had two of the best rounds of the tourney a 65 and a 66 Ale Alexander ander and Bob Hamilton both carded Sunday to finish at Dick Metz the likable competitor com com- competitor corn com from Virginia Beach and George Schneiter the P G A tourney tourney tourney tour tour- ney director from Ogden came in with lith 2793 fi r Metz carded a 66 Sunday while Schneiter took a 68 Ben Hogan the favorite and Clayton Clayton Clayton Clay Clay- ton Heafner ended up at at Ho Hogan an had a 69 while Heafner took a 73 Ellsworth Vines Ed Furgol Ralph B Blomquist lorn qui stand and Johnny Palmer finished with totals of Furgol had the best round of the four getting a 69 Vines had hada a 72 Blomquist a 71 and Palmer soared to a 73 Billy Johnston the Ogden youth took the amateur honors when he had a hole 72 total of The Idaho amateur champ and former Utah titleholder had his worst round of the tourney Sunday when he took a 77 Phil Kunkel got a and Walt Harris Barris a for second and third places among am ng the simon entered entered en en- in the meet I. I 1 I George FazzIo Lloyd Mangrum Cary Gary Jimmy Demaret I S. S Ir s Skip ip Alexander B Bob Hamilton 4 27 I. I F Dick Metz George Schneiter N r Ben Hogan Clayton Heafner i Ellsworth Vines Ed d Fur Furgol ol Ralph Blomquist Johnny Palmer Palm r. r I wJ T 4 4 74 7 I I w F f ii I L I Ii 7 I i V I I i 4 1 it 1 t. t I I t 5 7 I f F t t t 1 p. p t k I p Y I r c S I 1 f l t Tribune Photo khoto White Forced Into Playoff Lloyd Ma la Mangrum grum Tam Tarn o 0 pro rests in the thelo thelo lo lter ker r room r om after shooting a 69 60 and earning a atie atie tie with ith George Fazio for Utah open golf crown He Surprised Everyone George Fazio a surprise surprIse- contender fired a a. 68 Sunday to tie Lloyd Llo d Mangrum langrum at at the end of 72 holes and force a playoff Monda Monday Tom McHugh Says Divot Prima Donnas oF Give Golf Bad Name This is another In a series of articles on the Utah Open golf goll tournament b by Tom McHugh veteran Nibley Park Patk professional who is writing his impressions of the big meet exclusively for the Telegram By BJ Tom CHug McHugH l lA A lot of the old timers around golf in Utah and after 20 o or 25 years of it I guess you would class me as an old timer think that it is wonderful seeing these big time pros in action but that the Utah Open championship should be strictly for Utah golfers Twelve thousand five hundred dollars is a lot of money to let slip out of ot Utah and practically all of that will go out this year as the traveling golfers depart Naturally we couldn't have anything like that in prizes prizes' with just Utah golfers r J n competing but the local pros who have so it f 1 z much to do they dont don't have time to practice practice tice could compete on even terms AA k- k Maybe once every three years we could 5 have a big tourney and have the name fi f f players here but once every three years years' i would be enough I am getting a little fed l up with the prima donnas of golf Those 1 t p t pros seem to forget that they were once ok caddies a and d that they arc are now royalty r- r or something t We W have to bow and scrape to them and J. J p r they expect everything ng to be done for them t tj J But the bigg biggest st beef I have with them is 1 4 Y the way a lot of them treat their caddies caddies- i 7 V like slaves A caddy is just a kid and N bound to make mistakes but a real sport III should realize this and make allowances o something a lot of the pros didn't do here Tom McHugh Now of course there are a number of real gentlemen in that bunch of traveling pros but there are also a lo lot of guys who do golf little good Now that is off my chest let us get on Lloyd Mangrum might be able to thank a spectator for finishing in a tie for first His ball hit a fan on No 2 and Mangrum got a birdie on the hole At that point he looked like he was going to tomake make a runaway of the final 18 for he was two under nar par after th the two holes Did you notice that four started and three finished Ernie Jr slipped a little on the second 18 and didn't make malte it but you youcan youcan youcan can bet your shirt that this youngster will be heard from in the future George Ernie and Earl the three golfing brothers all played good golf all the way through Everything about the Fort course was excellent during the tournament tournament tournament tour tour- but I think that that No 1 hole is a very poor getaway for championship golf It should be a long par four or par five hole A blind hole is is bad enough anywhere around a championship course but to open with a blind hole is extra bad About the only casualty of of- the tournament happened to a Jaycee ticket seller N. N B. B Topping put the bite on a non ticket wearer and the gate crasher told him what he could do with the ticket Topping told him he would have to leave then turned around to watch a shot Just about that time the unwelcome guest copped a sneak on Topping and the thc blow broke Toppings Topping's glasses and cut cut his face Toppings Topping's s pals the marshals came to the rescue called the cops and the gate crasher was taken to the pokey Who's Vho's going to win that playoff Mangrum is at least a two- two to-one to shot In fact if you like Fazio to win you should get a couple of strokes edge |
