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...Cheney's game, less powerful than clever, was well suited to the peculiarly pinched fairways and hard little greens of the course at Saunton. In the third round she put out Jean Hamilton, who had beaten Miss Orcutt. Next day she played Beryl Brown, won 3 & 2 for the chance to play Enid Wilson...
Meanwhile at Saunton in Devonshire it was raining, too, as a flock of U. S. women, fresh from a team victory over British women (TIME, May 30). qualified for the women's British Open golf championship. The rain stopped long enough to let Miss Maureen Orcutt play around in the phenomenal scores of 73 & 78, winning the medal and putting the U. S. flag alone on a British golf club's flagstaff for the first time in history...
...total of 151 was extraordinary over the Saunton Club's "joke" course. It is built over sand dunes with eccentrically narrow fairways and little slanted postage-stamp greens. The holes are not long but are often blind. The hazards are waist-high heather, bogs, bulrushes, traps like sand quarries, shore winds...
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