Show fVV'Vftyf llv Mea& f &&y4i at the Salt Lake Country Club proved to be a -very popular spectator -spot during the Utah — The well trapped 18th hole — - ' v S8 a Open which wound up Sunday Terraced hillside west of the giant green offered the golf fans who followed the popular ' $ 4 :l V ? - - pros excellent vantage poiiits to watch the action on the finishing hole After a slow start the first two days of Sports Mirror by PlayTt Safe Mooney On 18th? Tribune Sporls Editor The new Utah Open champion put his stamp of approval on the Salt Lake Country Club Sunday TOMMY JACOBS AFTER pocketing his biggest check as a pro golfer explained “This is an honest golf course If you play well you can score well If you are off your game you - are punished by the course “But If you play well you are rewarded with good scores “Some of the courses on the pro tour do not penalize for a poor shot he can recover and still score I like to feel a good shot deserves more than a poor shot and a recov— ery in championship golf" TOMMY ONE OF THE more unassuming modest golf ers on the tour mentioned “I was lucky” “I was happy to see it drop” and “It was a fortunate break” several times during his post tourney interview with the press “ON 11 MY SECOND shot hit a spectator” he laughed "It was lucky because It may have gone in the creek otherwise The ball hit the green and bounced straight right to hit the ’gallery fan I was able to chip within four inches of the pin — because of this lucky break” Likes Change in Course Many of the golfers felt bad when the course was revamped and the histone No 18 became No 9 The old canyon hole was one of the most picturesque finishing holes in golf 9 hole is better Jacobs believes - ' —was flat before and I didn't care for it “The green But the No — Now the green is elevated and trapped and you can get a better line on the green from across the canyon” he explained And while the new No 18 may not be quite as dramatic as the old finisher the spectator advantages are unlimited On all golf courses the difficulty is getting thousands of fans around a small area By lack Schroeder Tribune Sports Writer Tommy Jacobs who is living proof that nice guys do win survived near disaster on the final hole Sunday to win the richest of all Utah Opens by a single stroke over fast- Not Tommy By John Mooney Tribune Sports Editor Tommy Jacobs gave the gal-leia thrill mixed with anguish when he ran into trouble on the 18th hole Sunday and finished with a six y THE NEW UTAH Open king 62 70—272 while Janhad uary put together 66 67 72 68— 273 and third place finisher Gary Player had 68-7- But Tommy wasn’t playing It safe when he ran afoul the sand trap 66-6- Jacobs who had "carried a three stroke lead into the final round after shooting a 62 Saturday built the margin to four strokes after 16 holes but then finished with a bogey double bogey to fire a final day 70 and a total of 272 eight under par THE 28 YEAR OLD Californian picked up his biggest ($6400) and won his biggest tournament It was his first victory on the tour since pay-chec- k January four-strok- g Early-Foo- Not the Answer t A brilliant start isn’t always the best for a pro golfer Jacobs admitted T fast four or five strokes under par and you begin worrying about having a good round and maybe — — “You get off — you press too much “I like a round like my 62 of Saturday when the round just seemed to build up I was out in 32 and then added a 30 on the back nine” Jacobs added to settle for a 62 OF COURSE most golfers would like " no matter how it happened to develop Observation Ward In to th earn pros or nothing compared ruck vi you'd hav with 150 iporfi writers competing la th lalrnan the law area c la — j- — — IL: W a - W a M a A A A A A A A 70—272 72 62 Lionel Hebert 75 72 72 Marr ($6 600) -2- 73January Don DENVER Sept 8 (UPI) — Mike Martines 18 of Salt Lake City won the men’s singles championship Sunday of the Colorado State Open Tennis Tournament at Penver Country Club Martines defeated John Whistler of Denver 6 2 and 6 3 in the finals In the men’s doubles championship Jim Iatidis and Jack Celia of Denver defeated Dick Moody of Salt Lake City and Jack Ormsbee of Denver 1210 and 6 3 in the fmais LANDIN teamed with Anne Rose of Denver to win the mixed doubles title defeating Moody and Margo Hedges 6 3 and 6 3 e Don’t t feel too sorry for Gary Player for not winning the Utah Open The little South Afiiean has now amassed $52655 this year He has finished in the money in ail 21 starts this year on the PGA tour He won $2500 Sunday TOMMY JACOBS seems headed for his biggest year The Utah Open first prize of $6400 has boosted his earnings to $19818 51 for the year Tommy figures that it takes him $20000 to break even on the tour so everything from here on out should be profit vicTommy’s previous tories on the tour have been at Denver and San Diego HE HIT THE ball a little too far and it died and he was left with a substantial putt He still had two for a win He knocked the first putt to 10 inches of the hole and then under the anxious eyes of the rocord crowd tanked the putt for a double bogey six and a one stroke victory Jacobs started with four consecutive pars but had to make a tough 10 foot putt on No 2 for one of them He got his first bird at No 5 where ha rapped in a six footer - HIS EAGLE PUTT slipped across the lip of the cup on No 9 but he dropped the bird and made the turn in 33 January had the same figuies through the first 'five holes with a birdie on fro 5 After parring- the sixth ha See Page 22 Col I ($3 600) 67 66 69 70 65 69 290 — 291 — ($2 500) 70--275 Roger 77—291 72 72 69 Ginsberg —29- 2Bill 66 69-- 278 ($2 050) 71 72 278 76-- 290 Dave Schneiter Ernie Dave Boies Funsetti Rod Casper Aaron 73—292 75 69 75 Tommy 72 70 -2- 94- -2- 7970 68 70 Bob Goalby Bondeson 69 73 67 70-- 279 — 71 ($1 Paul 279 650) Jerry Pittman 74 rier 75 70 74 75294 72 74 74-- 294 Bruno Bob Sifford Charlie 72 72 72 Jim Fer 72 68 70-- 294 —295— 67 68 — 280 74 Billy Doug Sanders Sant Carmichael 4 72 74 75—295 Tommy Maxwell 66 68 74 72—280 Bill EggerS 72 73—295 Buster Cuplt 72—280 Mason Rudolph 68 71 71 70 Wulfl 67 78 72—295 Art Proctor 75 70 -2- 80 ($1350) Jack O Keefe 75 73 76 71—295 Tommy -2- 81Williams 69 78 73 75-- 295 Don 74 281 5 Gay Brewer Jr —296— 281 69 ($1050) Massengale Jim Baker 72 75 75 296 -2- 83- Nichols Bobby Fairfield 71 69 67 75 71 283 73 9 Phil Balding 67 67 4 74— 284 j 69 Jack 284 Miller Barber 284 Bruce Fleck 74—284 74 69 74 75 -2- 85Bob Goetz 71 Evans 73 70 69 73-- 285 ($530) 73 70 71 Robert Blewett Essig 74 74 74 73-- 297 Rogers 73 74 ’ —281— Al smith —297— Don 70-- 263 73 837 ($900) Jay 66— ($700) Hebert 72- 71 69 72 Bo Herb 73 72 70 72 Al Kelley 77 288 —288 Duff 71 71 71 Johnston Harrison 70 70 0—289 Rex 75-- 288 74 73 70-- 289 71 77 74 Mack Rldd 73 Dean Refram 72 76 76 72-- 289 Baxter 79 Frank 82—307 81 76 77 76 79—311 Huff 75 78 76 84-- 313 —317— Vaughn Bisdorf Barker 80—317 78 79 80 —319— Mike Smith 79 82 80 78--319 —323— Dutch Sutton 71 75 -' —313— 1 Tom Jerry Edwards 8?- —31- 1- 75 73 3 74—288 ($138) Alex 76 71 75 79 69 71 289 2B9 Chjco 78 Brian Goldsworthy Bob Weav —289— x 76 Bill 70-- 288 Bob Harrison 73 Lawrence Mike Souchak Bill 71 70 Mir -8- 09- 288— 73 70 74 79 Pete Fleming 286 287 Bert Dudley Wysong 7172-771 72 71 73—287 Blanton 7073 70J4— Ferree 78 70— -3- 07- Bill 73—287 Js-- 70—287 70 75 72 74 Bernes ($395) 75 71 71 76—299 -3- 04- —287— Bayer George 78 McCallister 72-- 287 er 73 5 76-- 301 Pollock 73 72 74—286 76 Winmger 71 —303— ' Jim Wright 75—286 68 Tommy Jenkins 72 74 7 9 Miartuz - 73 — 286 73—286 Babe 72 71- Ken Still Flnsterwald 68 Knudson Dow Don Martinez -3- 01- Chick 285 Richard Bruce Summerhays Crampton 75 73 70 284 74 74 75-- 297 —299— Jerry Steel —286— George Hlskev 75 73 Morgan Bob Osgood —326— 88 81 77 80-- 326 —327— 74 ($66 67) 04 77 Tom ftreen 81—327 ' 2 Reach$52655v 73 70 71 290 75 72 73 -2- 78- Jack Rule 75 66 Jr —275— Player Gary 7 A£ AAA 68 71 Colorado Title Player’s Purses He hit his traditional 4 wood from the tee got the ball almost precisely where he wanted but was not too happy with the lie He 'went to a 2 iron to carry the lake He normally would use a 3 but on this occasion he wanted to play the ball to the middle of the green through the opening of traps INSTEAD HE caught the right front Jrap but it was still possible to get down in two from there The ball had landed in fairly solid area of sand and he tried to chip it with a sand wedge He picked it too clean and sent it across the green to a knob on the grass bunker He had to chip back from there —290— —272— Tommy Jacobs —280— Marlines Grabs January got down in reg- illation on the 18th hole and Jacobs needed only a par to win by three shots UtahOpen Results “r THE FINISH WAS GREAT weatherwise crowdwise and competitionwise It was a great show and to the hundreds of workers sung and unsung who made the tournament a success the public owes a great debt of gratitude Smooth-runninevents do not just happen They come about because thousands of man (and woman) hours go into the preparation selling promotion and direction of the event This tournament was a first-clas- s job all the way around of 1962 But Jacobs had to make one final putt a on the 18th hole in the presence of 10500 fans who ringed the mountainside to watch this finale The record crowd let go with a shout that reverberated off the hulking Wasatch Mountain when the quiet young man from California had clinched the prize The new Utah Open king had built up a lead at the end of the 16th hole Sunday Utah Open champion Tommy Jacobs follows through on a shot during Sunday’s final round Jacobs filed a 70 two-putte- d Jacobs had most of his trouble on the No 3 hole where he scored two pars a bogey and a triple bogey the latter coming in the second round JACOBS CAME into the hole determined to play to the fat part of the green on the monster He knocked his approach over the back edge chipped to thiee feet of the pin and missed the putt That bogey trimmed his lead to three strokes e “ON MY SECOND shot I intended to put the ball in the middle of the green But I wound up in the trap That’s when I checked with the scorers to see how many shots I had over my nearest rival “My third shot was a lot harder than I expected and the ball went across the green But I wasn’t worried I had an easy chip to the green and even if I missed the shot I figured the ball would roll toward the pin” the champ explained FURRIER based his argu See Page 22 Col 5 70-70- 275 'T played tfje hole the same as I had all week” he said after accepting congratulations “I played to eliminate the trouble on the left side of the fairway as I had done before The first shot went about where I wanted it although maybe a little shorter than I expected The match seemed out of reach as January his closest puisuer couldn’t seem to close the gap But at the 17th January knocked in a birdie He was playing in the preceding group 482-yar- d closing Don January HIS STRATEGY worked beBut on 18 the 10000 or so gallery fans Sunday could see cause he chipped up and the second shots and the putts merely by looking down — for the victory the side of the hill The gallery heroics of the There are few if any natural amphitheater settings like day were turned in by Bob the No 18 at the Salt Lake Country Club Goalby Big Bob batted in a of about 50 feet on No 7 putt The best hole on the course was voted No 11" and then hit one in from about “It is laid out for a par four in tournament play and it the same distance on No 9 makes you get a great tee shot and a good second shot" for his eagle ' :rM ' Tommy said WHEN HE dropped the first BRUCE CROMPTON the Australian shotmaker rates one Bob laughed “I’ll never No 9 as “one of the greatest par four holes in the world and moan again ’’ I’ve seen most of them” One of the most heated dis Bob McCallister votes for No 11 as the toughest on the cussions after the tournament involved the argument between course if Jim Ferner Bruce Crampton No 3 Toughest for Tommy the meet the galleries ballooned during the final two rounds Some 10500 spectators were on the course Sunday January Nabs Second Money Player Scrambles for Third Gallery Thrill John I —A AA A iOAOAAlAA Ai 4 A A AAAA tk A X OAi Jt Afc6b4AA KA A A Aik A4 e 4 ae a |