Sarazen’s Great Cards.
Against a par of 44435444 3— 35; 44343454 4—35 Gene Sarazen won the American Open with the following four rounds:—First: 4 4 4 4 6 4 4 4 3—37; 44453453 5—74. Second: 44435454 3—36; 5 4 4 44 5 5 4 6—40-76. Thirds 5 4 4 4 6 4 4 5 2—38; 44342344 4—32—70. Fourth: 45325344 2—32; 4 4 3 4 3 3 5 4 4—34 —06. Par at Fresh Meadow is computed along more severe lin es than it is in this country. The lay-out is 6700 yards. Over that great run from the Bth holes of the third round, Sarazen was regularlyhitting his drives 300 yards. “It’s the depression!’’ screams Hector Hangle, as he vainly tries to hit his ball from a hoql print, 1931. ‘ ‘ You have made a hole in Pa,” cries the ranchman’s daughter as a gunman shoots her father in the car, 1870. “That slice is cured,” remarks the butcher, as he wraps up tho ham, 1002. “I’ll take this divot home and use it for a front lawn,” laughts Watt A. Mann, 1926. “Tho idea is to move it,” Joe Kerr shrieks to his wife; “don’t hide it in the ground!” 1927. Long Carrie, the female golf philosopher, says “The impatient golfer who wants to get ahead surely needs one!” 1928.—From “The Old Duffer’s Almanack,’’ in “The American Golfer.’’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 205, 13 August 1932, Page 2
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228Sarazen’s Great Cards. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 205, 13 August 1932, Page 2
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