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Show w v yr ' The Sail Lake Tribune, Tburssfey, Jar The Jim Murray Column J Toughen Up Open Courses science relies on the curvaBy Jim Murray Lcs Angeles Times Writer ture of the earth, with the LOS ANGELES The rotation on its axis, and the world of sports lives by const- immutabilities of mathematants. It is absolutely essential ics, sports has its own axioms on which to found all other . .w that nine out g s. propositions. of 10 batters',- cannot hit the One of these is that par in standard of excelball golf be 1 lence like the .300 average in consistently. Only a super baseball, 1,000 yards in footrunner can ball, the hat trick in hockey, e make 10 yards mile. or the predictably in But, any game is at the three caries. mercy of the metallurgists, or The serve in biologists, or dynamometer tennis must be experts or just plane lathe or returnable JtatMnrray drill press operators. most of the time. The slap It is the conceit of people shot, the jump shot, even the who run golf that anything left jab must be defensible or over par turns the spectator else the delicate balance by off. balls shafts Graphite which competition is kept sus- wound so tight you could kick penseful will be tilted. Borethem 200 yards, courses as dom is the payoff. flat and playable as a pool Own Axioms table are the order of the day. You have to have 3.5 secSo the game relies on the onds either to beat out or be U." Open, the British Open, thrown out by a thrown ball the Masters and an occasional or baseball is through. Just as PGA to keep things in per- - - 3 cure t 'i three-minut- Gal Golfer Takes Rose Park Lead By Steve Wilson Tribune Sports Writer Janet Thurgood, swinging her golf club as if she was manipulating a magic wand, displayed almost mystical control of the links Wednesday e and shot into a lead after one round of the Rose Park Invitational. The final J holes of this tournament will be contested Thursday at Rose Park, a pretty little course on Redwood Road. Shoots 77 final nine, although ft was hard to detect, and Janet recorded her three-ove- r par round, still good enough for the tournament lead, I cant really play that much better, he attractive Miss Thurgood beamed. If tt you'll notice. I had five greens on the front nine. My putts were banging around the cup amd barely falling in but Ill take them. one-pu- experioccasionally ment. but, when in doubt, they return the open to Merion, Oakmont, Oak Hill or one of those classic wooded, creeked courses of the east, then sit back and wait confidently for all those 80s and 76s, to show up on the score board and give the game the degree of difficulty that gives it its fascination. They They put the game in California one year, at Riviera, and, when Ben Hogan managed the equivalent of four 69 s (which he would have done on the floor of an ocean that year, he was playing co well), they were so shook that, the next time they put an open in California (at Olympic in 1955), they grew the rough so high one player lost a free drop in it. Not only does all golf have a stake in what is called or open rough open greens or even open fairbut the registered ways giants of the game have. too. Ben Hogan wouldnt play in one of those desert opens where all you needed was a driver wedge and putter, and everyone shot STs. A guy w ith a loop in bis back swing and a collapsed left arm had as good a chance, as Harry Vardon. But, suddenly, you had an Open this year that looked like a Rubber Mat Open in Brackenridge Park. From the ladies tees. You not only had a 63, two 65s, but you had a John Schlee shooting a 67, you had a Tom Weiskopf shooting two 69s, Jerry Heard shooting Bennions Hot Miss Thayne suffered through a peculiar round in which she scored only one birdie and shanked two chip shots. Her nines were At NCAA Tennis Test 40-3- Miss Thurgood, saving herself time and again with perfectly-placed approach shots, came in with a 77 to lead by a single stroke over Marcia Thayne, Who had a scrambling 78. Sue Rasmussen, a surprise performer, was next at 79 while kathie Brockman carded an 80. , Bev Nelson, the tournam-emt- s defending champion, is not competing. The always steady Niss started superbly, Thurgood putt for dropping an eight-foa birdie on the very first hole, d a par 5. Then, a couple of bogeys slowed her down until she sank another short putt, this time on No. 9, for a bird to make the turn in even par 38. But the magic faded on the j Tough Time on After flubbing a nine-iro- n No. 16. Marcia looked up and quipped, I don't mind as much as I do three-puttin- Special to The Tribune PRINCETON, N.J. -- g three-chippin- Immediately following Wednesdays play, the Golden Fleece headed for the driving range, hoping to iron out some problems. The most spectacular golf shots Wednesday were provided by championship flight entrants Kathie Brockman and Virginia Franches. Kathie holed out a chip shot om No. 9 for a birdie while Virginia was even more amazing, scoring an eagle on the par-- 4 18th with a bullseye of a fairway wood shot. sua wih. Utahs Bill Bennion continued his march through the National Collegiate Athletic Assn, tennis meet here Tuesday with second and third round vic- tories. The Redskin's ace defeated Oklahomas Rick Lashley, to begin the day. He then faced Bob Tanis of Georgia and eliminated him, Tanis had earlier beaten the 12th seeded player, Fred 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- McBair from North Carolina. I3T3 n3 11 vs. 0. OODIN 05CCJ akd amateur shooting 69, also a Forrest Fezler and a Billy Ziobro. You had Frank Bearu checking in with a 68, Jim Colbert with another. You had Julius Boros and Arnold Palmer witli 68s, Gary Piayer with 67, and Bob Charles and Borek and Larry Ziegler 69 s. 66, an spective. ?!, CPEM DAILY i 9 stcse kcuks r.rjmr SUN. SAT. - 9-- 7 - 11-- GLENDALE STOKE HOURS: CPEM DAILY 10-- 3 SUM. SAT. 10-- 7 pgggoonv canyon, 6 114 PRICES EFFECTIVE JUNE 21 ST THRU JUNE 24TH The trouble with making Oo is. open course you over do it, and you place the whole premium on luck. Most of us felt Hazeitine in Minneapolis was just like putting 18 holes on the side of Mt. Everest. A course that doesn't reward good shots is as big a mistake as one hat does reward bad ones. super-difficu- 9-- lt Badly Scarred came out of this Oakmont . open with its reputation It tied an open recr rounds in ord for most a single tournament and most r rounds in a single round (19 in the second round). Its ninth hole had to e in Open be the easiest history. Its second hole was birdied by nine of the last tl play ers on the final round. It's 17th proved it drivable on at least one occasion. badly-scarre- sub-pa- HIGH STANDARD MARSHAL Cl a Model 9330 fa 9 52" Barrell 9 .22 Cal. Dbl. Action 9 sub-pa- par-fiv- The USGA has a sizeable problem at Winged Foot next year. It may have tricked Pebble Beach up a trifle too much in 1972, although Jack Nicklaus saved them by finding it playable. When the trading players are as unlikely a collection of consonants as you had at Pebble, you have' made a mistake someplace. The weather (which makes the British Open what it is) is never a reliable ally in June in North America. What the USGA should do, it seems to this writer is call upon some people who have been there. Ben Hogan can lay you out an open track that will return the Open to what it was and should be. Its well to remember a Bobby Jones made the Masters what it is the second or third most prestigious tournament in the jvorld. If I were tt?e USGA, I would have an emissary in Ft. Worth in the morning with a map of Winged Foot (and Medinah, site of the 1975 Open and Atlanta, site of the 1976), a blank check anda request that he build or reconstruct a course where a Gene Borek will never shoot a 65 nor Billy Ziobro a 69, and the winner will not be a guy who was in Wake Forest or the NCAA two years ago. Weve got to get the Open out of the and Hogan is a man ot Cl J GIBSON'S 1 PRICE sL V) i MARLIN GLENFIELD'S O Model 20 r .22 v 7-SH- BOLT-ACTIO- N CUP OT barrel. Walnutfinish hardwood stock. 22-in- a KV i GIBSON'S PRICE . Smooth, positive bolt action. Cj Model 60 .a GIBSON'S PRICE SEVU-AUT- O. Holds 18 d cartridges. finish hardwood, high-spee22-in- ch .22 long rifle barrel. Walnut Monte Carlo stock. san-dlot- s. 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