GEORGE DUNCAN DID GREAT TRICK SHOT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18467, 19 May 1928, Page 7

GEORGE DUNCAN DID GREAT TRICK SHOT.

(By GEORGE YON ELM. Former U.S. Amateur Champion.) Probably the most amazing scoring spree ever registered was turned up by Bobby Jones last year at Minikahda, where he had four rounds of under 70, and swamped all opposition. In the final round Chick Evans kept pretty close to par, yet was downed 10 and 8. We have come to expect so much of Bobby that his most dazzling feats are passed by with much less applause than they deserve. George Duncan, the great Englishman. made the most astonishing shot I ever saw. His stxint was pulled while we were playing at the Los Angeles Country Club on Duncan’s last visit to America. On the seventh hole his ball lay on a hard road, directly behind a row of trees. There was no way to get to the green except by going over the trees, and since the distance was hardly more than forty feet, and the height of the trees no less than fifty, the thing looked impossible. Adding to the difficulty was the. hardness of the road. It prevented Duncan from digging under his ball. How anyone could expect to shoot a ball straight up in the air from such a surface and hold the ball on a green so close at hand, I don’t know. Yet Duncan did exactly that, and laid his ball within three feet of the pin to get a birdie. George, like Joe Kirkwood, is a smart trick shot player, though Tie doesn’t make a business of it. I’ll wager, though, that he never turned in a greater shot than that at any stage of his career. A better one could not ha\’e been made by anyone. (Copyright 1928.)