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...stages nine tournaments of its own, including the U.S. Open, and the ground rules are strict. "We narrow the fairways, raise the roughs and collar the greens," says Executive Director Joseph Dey Jr. "We want our tournament to be a true test of skill." That it is. The 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...
...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 the halfway...
...play the game. In addition, there are immediate practical benefits. For instance, there are thousands of Harvard alumni in California who never get to see their basketball team play. A game at U.C.L.A. would provide long-desired West-Coast exposure, but up to now the embarrassment of a score like 110-28 blotting the Crimson ledger has outweighed the advantages. And with its Boston Irish-surroundings, Harvard has always been considered a "natural" football opponent of Notre Dame. But again, fear of a lopsided score has prevented the match...
...arriving at his correlation between intelligence and emotional illness, Dr. Nicholai used predicted rank list (prl) as his measure of intelligence. (The Admissions Office figures a prl for each entering student, taking into consideration his secondary school rank in class, the average of his College Board achievement scores, and his College Board verbal aptitude score...
...then checked his results by using the verbal aptitude score alone as his intelligence criterion. Some people consider it a better measure than prl, Dr. Nicholai said, because it does not take motivation into account...