No sooner was my stroke completed
than a fellow !n the gallery near the
green began Jumping up and down and
shouting something that I couldn’t make
out. I thought at first that he was
trying to tell me I had gone on over
the green or that the ball had stopped
dead to the hole. On the contrary I
found that he was trying to inform me
that I had holed out in two on a par
four bole.
Herd Han 17 Ares
Speaking of freak strokes, holding
out a long midiron shot is as close aa
I ever came to making a hole ini one.
I must be long overdue. I have played
but the long-looked-for ace is yet to
come. Most good players have made
them. Sandy Herd has a collection of
seventeen. Alex Smith has eleven or
twelve. Mike Brady has almost as
many, but I have never even started
on my collection. They say that a bole
in ono is due once in every twenty
thousand shots, but if this is the case.
I must be long overdue. I haveplayed
a great deal of golf, in this country and
abroad* but the ace is still in the fu
ture. Perhaps I will average up before
I finish, with the game.
Invented Dreadnought Driver
So'oiT after my freak, the clan began
gathering for the open at Baltusrol,
and I was among them. There was a
good field of players with a few entries
from the other side of the Atlantic.
