Show 0 A ANO 7 k W T I 1 HE ancient and honorable game of golf is looking for a standout one who can be labeled the champ so far no such person has propped himself against the skyline of fame starting with the los angeles open the winners of this year years s tournaments have been ben hogan L lloyd I 1 0 y d angrum bobby locke D dutch u t c h harrison jimmy demaret a and nd sammy snead close up and threat engg we have had skip alexander dick metz johnny palmer and sev eral others who sam snead have ripped the hide off par to no avail with win cers ners beating the old man by 15 or 16 6 strokes one of the thrills was to find snead locating a long lost putting touch which brought him the texas open title in for the 42 holes just 20 under par wherever he finishes snead still carries a big gallery hav ing the type of swing big gal lenes love to watch full and free with complete lack of effort snead hogan demaret and locke are the gallery favorites be ing possessed to a large degree of that indefinable ingredient known as color color is something the galleries or or the crowds like something with a dafin te human appeal there must be better definitions but we 11 let you think them up ruth and dempsey had it to a greater degree than anyone else locke is playing as well as he did last year but so far he chasn t been able abl to leave the pack behind n T the he pros will all be in florida at an early date and from florida the trek will be into the carolinas Caro hnas and then to augusta ga for the mas which should be a nectarine full of juice aice this season with so many possible winners playing over a championship course keep Sivi nging recently we visited ted here and there with a number of leading pro fess ional golfers the idea was to milk them of any helpful ai advice that might remove a few strokes from the scores of any readers here was the consensus the idea is to keep swinging to swing every club many golf ers seem to think the game Is divided into three elements wooden club play iron play and putting this isn t true ev ery cry golf stroke should be and must be a swinging motion you certainly swing your wood en clubs many figure the iron shot is a hit it isn t any iron you use must be a swing this is also true of putting you must swing the putter not use it to stab or jab ab watch horton smith or locke putt the trouble most bad putters have is that they don t swing the putting blade you can get twice as touch much power from a swing as you can with a hit or a punch this advice came from such golf ers as locke hogan demaret and snead snead has been swinging every club except his putter he was jab ab b n ng g and stabbing with this money y making blade until he hit san an tonio where he started a smoote swing in motion when you get the miser ies you are a lost soul snead told me on a yard hole he had just driven more than yards over a baked out terrain his approach with a wedge had stopped eight feet from the cup his first putt ran three feet past and he blew the next one a five in place of a probable three that s what sammy meant by the miseries the toughest part of a big golt golf tournament one veteran said is still trying to concen art rate through 72 holes there are times when it is hard enough to concentrate on one hole ethics in boxing there is one ring division that should have set any number of rec in place of cracking up this is the middleweight bunch it was discovered that rocky graziano acting as a sold er had deserted the army serving 8 or 10 months for this escapade it also was charged that he had boasted of breaking out of service and earning many dollars which he did As tar far as graziano is concerned the main argument has been along two lines no I 1 granted he was gu guilty alty which be lie was he has served his sentence and has paid the law s penalty isn t that enough why punish him further 9 no 2 4 war deserter should not be allowed to make a k ring by running away hie ills penalty should have been death before a firing squad or at least 10 y years ears in stir A weak minded court let him off too easily if many young men find in time of war you can desert and come back for a clean up why bang around |