KIRKWOOD'S RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 20

KIRKWOOD'S RECORD

J. Kirkwood, tne famous trick shot, had not been prominently before the public as a winner of big tournaments, and his record-breaking score of 277 for seventy-two holes, which gave him the North-South American title, camo as a welcome surprise to..tho many golfers who roincnlber -his Australian and New Zealand tour. Strangely enough, he attributes his win to an improvement in his game since he has discontinued trick' shot exhibitions. Kirkwood did <>8 on the first morning, and sank a chip from the edge of the green for a birdie 3 at the last hole in the afternoon for a 67, seven shots below par for the course. Next day ho added rounds of 70 and 72. When ho started the last round he was seven strokes ahead of Picard and Craig Wood, and eight ahead of Horton Smith, but took 5 's for the first two holes, and dropped strokes at the seventh and eighth, taking 40 out, but ho came back in 32, ?> under par, reeling off 3's at the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth. Ho was never off the fairway in the seventytwo hole 3. Ho led Cooper (Chicago) by five strokes, and Horton Smith and Craig Wood by- eight strokes.