Show ar A NEW GOLF ANGLE professional golf needs a new angle in a ranking or scoring way it needs badly something like the standing of the clubs in baseball there are too many different winners in too many tournaments for the public to know who is ahead and who this could be arranged by picking out a number of 0 the leading tournaments in which most of the the stars play and from these a record grantland rice of the total strokes could be tabulated also a point system of first second third fourth and fifth places might be kept so that followers of the ancient game could get a clearer idea of what the leading stars are doing 1 the first method was tried out a few years ago on the west coast and it scored a clean hit four big tournaments were picked for the test the total scores of the leaders were printed after each tournament with the result that by the third tournament there was keen interest in trying to pick the winner on the final day as I 1 recall ed dudley and harry cooper were neck and neck with several pursuers not far away follow up value the trouble today is that different golf tournaments have no follow up value hogan wins snead wins wood wins someone else wins the public soon becomes confused it has no combined record of comparison 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 0 golfers and so link one tournament with another in this way each added tournament would become more and more important as general interest began to build up to make this new ranking method more effective there should be suitable rewards for the top men especially ally the winner some enterprising advertiser could afford to put up for the top five opening with at least for the big win winner the advertiser would get the benefit of many tournaments through a long campaign there could be a winters standing leading up to the U S open and there could be a summers ranking for the remainder of the tournament year there is no doubting the interest value this would have for tournament golf in place of each big tournament being a somewhat isolated case there would be a new national following A simple record for example we would come to the fourth tournament in the list the record might be something like this hogan strokes snead craig wood nelson j by the start of the seventh tournament the count might be hogan 1440 snead 1442 wood 1443 etc perhaps there is a better way for 1 this I s to be worked out but I 1 know the above method got by with a rush the first and only time it was tried there is now no follow up in 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 baseball if there were no standing of the clubs no comparative record of each teams ranking golf has a great chance in the way to add tremendously to a national public following from one tournament to another if the P G A will get back of the idea and pui put ii it through a the national open danger spot the excitement of the th recent national amateur championship at omaha will long be remembered by the gallery ites who watched the campaigners battle it out for top honors many weird things can happen in these double 18 hole tests few estimate the danger of these 18 liole matches I 1 wonder how many recall the tact fact that for tour four years so fine a golfer as george von elm was beaten in his first round when he finally managed to scramble through at baltusrol Baltus rol and he might easily have lost his first match again being one down and one to play 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 shirt more than once dick jones almost nailed him at baltusrol Baltus rol one down where bobby holed a 15 tooter and dick blew a two footer on the same hole in the stretch maurice mccarthy had bobby two down and four to play othera others of no ranking caliber carried him to the eighteenth or nineteenth holes including ray gorton at brookline johnny goodman finally ca caught u gh him at pebble beach the 18 hole tests were waterloos Water loos to men who could go eo longer matches |