Show P CE I A NEW GOLF ANGLE P PROFESSIONAL golf goU needs a new angle anIle in a ranking or scoring way WRy It needs badly something like the Standing of the Clubs in basebalL baseball base base- balL There are too ico many different winners win win- ners in too many I tournaments for tor the public to know who t is ahead and who I I This could be arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ranged by picking out a number of the w leading tournaments in which most of the stars play and from these a record Grantland Rice of f the total strokes could be tabt tabulated Also a point system of first second third fourth and fifth places might be kept so that followers of the an ancient i nt game could get a clearer idea of what the leading stars are doing The first method was tried out a afew afew few years cars ago on the West Vest coast and it scored a clean hit Four big tournaments were picked for Cor the test The total scores of the leaders were printed after each cach tournament with the result that by the third tournament there was keen interest in trying to pick the winner Or the final day as I recall Ed Dudley and Harry Cooper were neck and neck with several pursuers not far tar away U Follow Up p 11 Value alue The trouble today is that different golf gol tournaments have no up follow-up value Hog Hogan m wins wins wins-Snead Snead wins Wood wins wins someone someone else wins The public soon becomes confused It has no combined record of comparison comparison comparison com com- parison to follow in the way of total strokes or for first second third etc points Freddie Corcoran would be an ideal man to handle this new Standing of end and end so link I Ione one t to with another In InI Inthis I this way each added tournament would become more and more Important Important Im as general interest began to build up To make this new ranking method more effective there should be suitable suitable suitable suit suit- able rewards for the top men men men-es- es especially the winner Some enterprising enterprising enterprising enter enter- advertiser could afford to put up for the top five opening with at least for the big win ner nero The advertiser would get the benefit of many tournaments through a long campaign There could be a winters winter's standing standing standing stand stand- I ing leading up to the U. U S. S Open And there could be a summers summer's ranking for the remainder of the tournament year There Is no doubting the Interest value this would have for tour tournament tournament lament la- la ment golf In place of each cach big tournament being a somewhat isolated Isolated iso Iso- isolated case there would be a new national national national na na- following A Simple Record For example we would come to the fourth tournament in the list The record might be something like this this Hogan Hogan strokes Snead Craig Wood Sara zen Nelson Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- son By the start of ot the seventh tournament the count might be Ho be-Ho- Ho Hogan gan 1440 Snead 1442 Wood 1443 etc Perhaps there is a better way for this to be worked out But I know the above method got by with a rush the first and only time it was tried There is now v no up follow-up inthe In Inthe inthe the present system of tournament play The leading money winner and the Vardon trophy winner might easily be two different players What general interest would there be in hi baseball if there were no standing standing standing stand stand- ing of ot the clubs no comparative record of ot each teams team's ranking Golf has a great chance in the way to add tremendously to a ana na national national na- na public following from one tournament to another if it the will get back of the idea and put it through The National Open Open Open- Golf's Danger Spot The excitement of ot the recent National National National Na Na- Amateur championship at nt Omaha will long be remembered by bythe bythe bythe the who watched the campaigners battle It out for top honors Many weird things can happen in these double hole 18 tests Few estimate the danger of these hole IS-hole matches I wonder how many recall the fact that for four years so fine a golfer as George Von VOD Elm was beaten In his first round When he finally managed to scramble through at Baltusrol and Baltusrol-and and he might easily have lost his first match again being one down and andone andone one to play play play-he he went along to beat Bobby Jones in the final rush Also few recall the fact that Bobby Jones barely escaped with his scalp and his bis shirt more than once Dick Jones almost nailed him at Baltusrol one down where Bobby holed a 15 footer and Dick blew a two two footer footer on on the same hole in the stretch Maurice McCarthy had Bobby two down and nd four to p play ay Others of no ranking caliber carried him to toilie the ilie eighteenth or nineteenth holes including Ray Gorton at Brookline Johnny Goodman finally caught him at Pebble Beach Bench The 18 hole 18 hole tests were Waterloos to men who could go longer ma matches |