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...good rule for young professional golfers is never to make disparaging remarks about opponents. Another is not to make disparaging remarks about anyone in the presence of reporters. Last week several young golfers returning from last month's Ryder Cup matches in England (TIME, July 12) disregarded both rules. Loudest in their disparagement of both the Ryder Cup matches which Great Britain lost and the British Open Championship at Carnoustie which England's Henry Cotton won, were brash young...
...England, where the disgruntled statements of the U. S. Rydermen were reported even more sensationally than in the U. S., they were indignantly denied by the British professionals. Said Ryder Cup Captain Charles Whitcombe: "They were treated like our own fellows ... no hostility was shown them. It never is in this country...
...players before they saw the Press. The P. G. A. representatives missed the cutter which took reporters down the bay to meet the boat. Trying frantically to close the incident, the P. G. A. last week talked about sending a publicity man with the next U. S. Ryder Cup team, if there...
...fine weather Carnoustie and the nearby Burnside course, over which the qualifying rounds were played, are no harder going than any seaside course with tight fairways and pit-pocked greens. Horton Smith of Missouri, whom a slump had kept out of the Ryder Cup play, stroked out two smooth 695 to win the medal...
...Open in 1934. At Sandwich then he shot the first round in 67 to tie Walter Hagen's record for the Open. On the following round he shot a 65, seven under par, the maddest pace ever set in national championship golf. He refused to play on the Ryder Cup team in 1931 because rules forbade him to barnstorm the U. S. independently after the matches. In 1933 he was ineligible because he was a nonresident, employed at the Waterloo Club at Brussels. Last winter when he returned to England to become professional at the Ashridge Club near Berkhamsted...