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...been a crack speedskater at Lake Placid, N. Y. Last year Wood earned more prize money than any other U. S. pro-$7,000. Second place for money winnings went to the young professional who was his opponent in last week's play-off-Hermon Densmore Shute, of the Llanerch Country Club, near Philadelphia. In three days of marvelously consistent golf over St. Andrews' angry bunkers and deceptive fairways, Shute had scored four par 733 in a row. Wood had caught up after a 77 on his first round, mainly because of a brilliant 68 on his third...
...took off his shoes and stockings, waded into the water with his niblick and played the ball. It landed near the edge of the green but Wood took three to hole out. Still rattled, he had another six at the second hole and found himself four down to Shute...
From there on, the match was close but the result was never in much doubt. Wood, outdriving his opponent by as much as 60 yds., was seldom nearer to the pin with his approaches. Shute, who said later that he had set himself the task of keeping ahead of Wood for the first round, had one tight moment when his approach caught Ginger-beer bunker on the 14th. He pitched out, sank his putt for a birdie and ended the first 18 holes still three strokes up. In the afternoon, Wood took 39 to the turn as he had done...
...excited as Shute himself was his golf-professional father, who learned the game at St. Andrews as a caddy, taught his son to play with a set of miniature clubs at the age of 3. Hermon Shute got the news about the play-off when he was giving a lesson at the Ashland, Ohio, Country Club, stopped long enough to say: "I sort of hoped the weather would be bad. . . . The boy is a great bad-weather player." U. S. golf followers knew that young Densmore Shute was an able player in good weather also. He tied Gene Sarazen...
...Herman Densmore ("Denny") Shute, slim 28-year-old golf professional from Cleveland: his first major tournament: the $10,000 Miami Biltmore Open; with 291, a stroke less than 21-year-old John Revolta of Menominee, Mich.; at Coral Gables, Fla. Day before 19 of the best known entrants, including Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen, Billy Burke, Horton Smith, announced that, because they were unsatisfied with the Professional Golfers' Association tournament schedule, they had formed an organization to promote more open tournaments, persuade colleges to hire professional golfers as coaches...