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Show SCIOTO COUNTRY CLUB NOV READY j Course Pronounced Fit by George Sargent, Pro. With the formal opening of the club's 192fi season, the Scioto Country club course at Columbus. Ohio, which will be the scene July 8-0-10 of the national open championships, was pronounced pro-nounced fit by George Sargent, the home "pro," who in 1909 won the national na-tional open, and who for half a dozen years has been president of the Professional Pro-fessional Golfers' Association of America. Amer-ica. Two 18-hole handicap tournaments for the club members formally inaugurated inau-gurated the reconstructed Scioto course. In anticipation of the national na-tional open the course has been partially par-tially rebuilt. "It will take the best in the trick bag of any polder pro or amateur," Sargent predicted, "to keep the upper hand of the Scioto course when the national open is run off in July." The course always was difficult enough to bring out the best or the worst in any player's repertoire. But its greens have been rebuilt, some of its holes lengthened and one shortened, short-ened, and other changes made. This is the basis for Sargent's prediction that superfine golf will be in order for the national open. j Scioto is the more difficult because j it looks easy. It is severe without j being unfair. The utmost advantage has been taken of its gentle, naturally undulating terrain and its long watercourse water-course so as to bring out the best golfing skill. The reconstructed Scioto course Is 6,675 yards in length, measuring the individual holes from the center of the tees to the center of the green. Par for the course is still 72, although as rebuilt it is considered to be harder than the former layout, for which par was also 72. |