Show Tee Dy Dr GHI filCH I It Is no uncommon matter for tor forthe forthe the tho average golfer colter whether his average e is pretty good 1 or pretty bad to ha haU have u a oat goat hole on oraa tie no tackles now and then then be the tho hard hard hard- hardest This hole may not est st on en the tho course by any meare It may even en be bo fairly airly simple K It he be has trouble with it once oneo ho he may DlLY remember his wreckage n c and have o trouble again And once onca the tho habit I la Is formed he may run Into steady trouble thIs terrain But Dut It may Interest tho the average o golfer goiter to that eve even the leading Stal stars have this same lamo fault faulL None to bo be immune Somo Sorno years ago ngo Francis Ouimet ran into Inlo this hoodoo hole holo at hiS home omo course course- Woodland It wreck wrecked ed his core for weeks Having found trouble ot of one ono sort or an another arm arm- another other on two or three rounds le found it almost Impossible to hit bit any good shot from the tee tto t o to the green grcen Ho finally worked cd out some Bomo such device as nl droppinG the ball on tho tee and hitting It carelessly without trying before ho could get Bet a start starL After Atter that ho 10 had little trouble At Oakland Hills in 1924 Bobby Dobby Jones Jonell played the tho tenth hole bole badly In his first practice round This hole holo was only a drive and antl a pitch lie JIe thought little about It but on his second practice round he again hashed Ut UI up the tho tenth lIe Ito Heran ran Into trouble again acain on his third practice round and when wIlen the tho championship opened his par 4 affair in four tour rounds cost him 6 5 6 5 6 seven seen strokes over par With four tour simple Cs ts on that hole playing It each time tima one over par he would have havo tied with Cyril Walker He Ho got started bad bad- badly badly bad badly ly and could never ne disperse the getting goat getting qualities ot of o this spot all through the championship In the tho same I way Walter Haen ran Into almost equal trouble on en the yard fourteenth hole holo at Scioto took a II S Ii on this hole holo In his tint first t practice round In his second round at SciOto he sliced his hia tee teo shot sh t yards ards to the tho right the ball finally stop pins stop stop- stopping stOpping ping under an automobile which had to bo be moved away before he could play his approach The Tho hole cost him another 5 6 On his third round when ho had been breez- breez breezIng breezIng Ine breez-Ine Ing along with a 0 good chance to win he again d hi his tee Leo shot to the tho sand or rough rough rough- and this time the tho par 3 hole cost him 3 Open championships are aco too close close- closely closely closely ly fought tor for anyone any one to drop five strokes at one ono hole in two rounds It U a II hoodoo hole holo can affect a aWalter aWalter I Walter Vatter Imperturbable Hagen the loading leading Imper Imper- it can affect any one ono liv- liv liv living ing tag There Thero are times when a certain certain tain tam hoodoo hole causes continued trouble because it calls calls upon a typo type ot of stroke which the tho golt golfer r doesn't have at his command It call for lor a Lull full Iron roil or a high pitch that must bo be Or It may call for tor a short pitch over II a a bunker tor for the tho second shot hot This is easy etsy esy to explain But Dut the tho mental troubles which irrow up like lice weeds In a n garden 13 la 13 an- an another another an another other matter Golf Golt Is ic about 65 66 or 70 I per ier er cent mental It bo be hard to 1 play lay fair golf golt K It one could keep relaxed and smoothly and easily without hurry or body action But Dut there are almost no golfers who can always keep relaxed Even en flagon will vili dread a 11 certain hole In a cham- cham championship cham which has hns cost coat him hini dis ills disaster disaster aster and which will In la some way i take away the confidence of oC o his his play The Tho hoodoo 00 holo hole on tho the home Iome course courso is a terrible thing thin for tor hero plays It continually only to have ha it cost co t him many a close match I 1 have avo known good golfers who dreaded certain holes on their home courses In any aay close match even though they had bad been play play- playIng playing playing ing such Euch holes tor for years I 1 never could play this hole is one ono of tho the common chirps ot of o the tho one around around the tho eighteen holes You hear helm it tt as often orten as another line IIno with tho the possible ex- ex ex exception of oC o this one Quo I I 1 thou thought ht I had a good one There Is no other single le line that gets n a bl bigger ger general 1 play 00 00 |