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...This was Chicago Promoter George S. May's idea of a golf tournament. It was in violent conflict with most golfers' ideas, yet the top pros, from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan on down were all there. The Tam O'Shanter offered prizes totaling $50,875, golfdom's bonanza of the year...
...Open, the steadiest wrists in golfdom get to shaking. The biggest and most elusive prize in golf has a cash value of only $1,500 to the winner (peanuts in pro competition), but the prestige easily adds up to another $50,000 in endorsements and exhibitions...
John L. Barr Jr. '39 achieved golfdom's greatest thrill yesterday afternoon when he scored a hole-in-one on the 210-yard 12th hole at the Belmont Country Club. He used a number four wood in accomplishing the feat...
...Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews until 1754. Fortnight ago, little George T. Dunlap Jr., U. S. amateur champion, Johnny Goodman, U. S. open champion, and Boston's spectacled Francis Ouimet, stood with bared heads in the Graveyard of St. Andrews Cathedral. There, in the very Mecca of golfdom, lay many of the game's great dead. Golfer Ouimet solemnly laid a bunch of yellow flowers on the still-fresh grave of Golfer Andra Kirkaldy, longtime St. Andrews professional. Golfers Dunlap and Goodman had flowers for the last resting places of Golfer Tom Morris and his son & namesake...
...Golfdom had known that some such scene was inevitable, sooner or later. Ever since his first try for the championship (1916, also at Merion), Jones had stood close to the head of the title-waiting line. Last year golfdom's estimate of him as the leading U. S. amateur medalist was verified when he won the open title. Last week, golfdom's shadow of doubt about him as a match-player was dissipated when he beat W. T. Thompson (Canadian champion) 6 and 5; D. C. Corkran (Gold Mashie winner, tournament medalist) 3 and 2; R. E. Knepper...