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...funny thing happened to Pete Cooper last week. A golf pro from Florida, Cooper played 72 holes at the Pensacola Country Club and scored 70, 71, 70 and 75 for a two-under-par total of 286. Yet, for those fine rounds, all poor Pete earned was the dubious distinction of finishing 82nd and last in the P.G.A. Pensacola Open. He was 24 strokes behind Gay Brewer, who shot 66, 64, 61 and 71 for an improbable...
...lowest score ever in the Open was the 276 shot by the magnificent "Wee Ice Mon," Ben Hogan, in 1948-14 strokes more than Gay Brewer took at Pensacola last week. Dey complains that the rash of low scores in P.G.A. tournaments "cheapens the concept of par." Both he and Jones insist that fans prefer to watch a golfer battle the hazards of a tough, demanding course-such as Georgia's 6,980-yd. Augusta National, site of this week's Masters tournament. "Galleries aren't attracted by low scores," says Architect Jones. "What they want...
...Par is defined as the number of strokes an expert golfer should take on any given hole, but the experts are rewriting the definition. The winning score in January's Los Angeles Open was 15 under par, an improvement of four strokes over 1966. In the Phoenix Open, it was twelve under, as compared with six under last year; in the Tucson Open, it was 15 under, as compared with ten. Doug Sanders needed a nine-under 275 to eke out a one-stroke victory in last month's Doral Open, and when the Greater Greensboro Open reached...
Heating Up. The surge in par busting may be partly due to improvements in the tools of the trade: the whippy steel and fiber glass shafts of today's golf clubs, high-compression golf balls, the portable warmers used to heat up the balls so they will travel farther. But there is a growing school of thought which holds that the real reason for all the sub-par golf is sub-par golf courses...
...books them. This year's Los Angeles Open was played on a mediocre public course, and the ridiculously low scoring at the Pensacola Open was hardly unexpected; at 6,380 yds., the Pensacola Country Club's flat, sun-baked 18 is little more than an oversized par-three course...