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Show Golfing Trail Grows Tougher By LARRY ROLLINS MIAMI, Fla, Dec 13 WV-Take It from Henry Picard, who should know, the big time touma- rry .i a U.K. ml ' ! , jwts t " , ment golfing grind is getting tougher each year. "More and more good young golfers with fir and ambition are knocVing at the door," said Picard, Pic-ard, P. G. A. the year's top golfer- to. data. "Th leaders dare not get out of condition or slip even a trifle for fear of get- Ftoard ting trampled In the stampede. He was on the practice green rapping in putt, trying for the delicate touch h will need In th 110.000 Miami open starting tomorrow. to-morrow. Picard nodded to the other side of the green. "See that fellow over there," he said. "That's Henry Poe, who Is about ready to hit the headline. And there are any number of others, such aa Ben Hogan, Clayton Clay-ton Heafner, Jimmy McHale and Charlea Fallow, who are always In condition, always practicing, always al-ways getting better." There may have been a time, Picard said, when a top golfer could dissipate before a tornament and (till win. That wa because the competition competi-tion wasn't nearly aa keen," he asserted. as-serted. "The stars were so much better than the rest of th golfers that they could wast a few shots and still win. That's not so now." |