GOLF NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 18, 20 July 1935, Page 21

GOLF NOTES

HISTORIC SCORING

YORKSHIRE. NEWS TOURNEY

.Wonderful' scoring, the best ever recorded in',a tournament of the kind, was seen?during the qualifying rounds for ■ the Yorkshire News professional tourney at Sand Moor, Leeds. Reports to ; 'han;dfrom English exchanges show how phenomenal the scoring was. More satisfactory still, the probabilities of Britain retaining the Open title are enhanced-by the fact that the lowest scores were made by young players who, in Now Zealand at any rate, are quite new. golfing stars. . If. the cabled initial of the Ryder Cup team member Jarman, given as F.,is\-correct, there is another Jarman, E..W., who could well have been included: in that team. He led the first qualifying round with 67, which broke a fresh record established a few mihutes' before for the reconstructed course. "

Jarman's round was a masterpiece, says- F. Ji' C. • Pignon, v marred by an unfortunate, finish. Henry Cotton is the only man who has holed a firstclass course in a tournament of this kind, in 65, and Jarman might have emulated his wonder-round, but a terrific downpour of rain robbed him of ' this fame. For sixteen holes he hit every drive to an exact spot, split thepinwith iron and mashie shots to the green, and frequently was putting forbtfdies and eagles which he did not get. However, he four good putts,'three of them for two at short holes..•"','•.With sixteen holes played, Jarman's-score' was 57. Then the rain washed away his chances of par figures- at the last two. Nevertheless tie''came' home in 34. His card read: Out, 444444342—33; in, 342542455—34; total 67.. •'■,''

: R. Cox might have divided the lead with' Jarman at the end of the day, but he missed a putt of two feet and.i was bunkered at a short hole. Those two Shots made a possible 67 into an actual1 6!) beautifully played. J. X Taylor' (Potters Bar) did the

first nine holes in thirty strokes, the lowest score ever accomplished on this course. , So< 'good was the scoring over the two rounds that players who merely equalled the' scratch score of 74- for each round failed to get into the 32 qualifiers. 'During the second round the new record of 67 was twice equalled and twice' beaten. Scores of 70 and" below became commonplace, and at the end youth triumphed, W. J.'Cox, the 24-year-old assistant at Addingtoh, heading the field with a record total of 135—13 better than the scratch scored But for a drenching downpour of rain during the afternoon the scores might have been even lower. Even so, lour players beat 70 under the severe handicap of slipping clubs and casual water, Willie Robertson, of Cleethor'pes, achieved the remarkable score of 66. 'This was probably the best performance of the day and comparable with the record of 65 established earlier in the day by Richard Burton.

•' Before lunch two players, Alfred Padghamiand W. Cox, had equalled the record ..of .67.: -Three others, J. J. Bussbn,, -the. match-play champion, Archie i Compston, and his fellow former ißyderyCupl player, S. Easterbro.ok, had'broken 70,.while Richard Burton, the champion, had utterly destroyed the record with 65, the best round of We - .turhament. In the first half of' Bur ton's record round of 65 he played ;his< second shots so accurately he needed only the regulation two putts a,green for'34-out. At the eleventh he -took' a 'rhashie niblick for his second shot and.holed out for a two. He hail, the' last • nine holes in, 31—eight holes',iri .26 and a five at the fourteenth. Burton's, card read: 1 '•' Out: 435444343—34. , r \ In _423353434—31. Robertson's 66 wag naturally the lowest'returned during the deluge. He came; in-soaked-.but happy at having played-some of the best golf of his life. Itjwas'won'/jrfully accurate, and he secured the correct figures in the or« (_odox. manner without the help of wore than-one long putt. ':M* had only,a single five; that was «t tlie longest hole on the course, which i-tH'coUld not reach in two, but at two short, holes he had each in two, placing'his tee, shots close to the pin in cachX'iristance. The.following qualified:—