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Jess Sweetser Tells:
The Most Remarkable Play I Ever Saiv.
, My !S ear-T raped y of 1923.
7 he Lucky Thirteenth Hole at Brookline.
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The Most Remarkable Play I Ever
Saw.
THK moat remarkable golf shot I
ever saw was made on the
second hole of the Brookline
course during the national amateur
tournament of 1922. The player who
made it was none other than the
great Bobby Jones.
Hobby and I were pitted against
each other in the semi-finals.
While, on this occasion, he was
not in the form which Iras es
tablished him ns one of the supreme
artists of the links, he demonstrat
ed to me, through the agency $t one
superbly convinced and egefated
stroke, why he was being acclaimed
as a roming champion.
We had halved the first hole of
nnr match and, following our tee
shots on the second—both of which
were straightaway, and of good dis
tance—everything pointed to a
tough struggle for the honor of get
ting into the finals. Then some
thing happened that gave the eon
test an entirely different aspeet.
The .second hole at Brookline is
about 320 yards long. My drive Was
a 220-yard one and Bobby's about
five yards longer. This gave me
first play for the green. By great
good luck my mnshie niblick shot
for the remaining 100 yards holed out
Tor a two.
To halve the hole It was necessary
for Bohhy to sink a 95-yard shot,
I but It I* proof of his courage and
of th* serious Intensity of his game
'that he was not In the least feared.
| Cslng all the skill at bis command, he
! also tried for a tw o.
In all my life I never liave seen
such a shot. The hall flew straight
for fits pin. dropped 10 feet short of
it and took a dead roil toward the
rup. For a minute it looked as
though it would go in. Fortunately
for me, However, it lacked carrying
power. It stopped 10 inches short.
And so, although lie niadr a birdie
three, Bobby lost the hole.
During the hall’s progress toward
the rup the gallery yelled and ap
plauded like inad, and when it failed
to go down a huge sigh of regret
went up. Mingled with my pleas
ure over gaining the lead was a
similar emotion. Never did a golfer
make a more gallant effort than
Buhhy Jones. My shot had been
lucky, but his was carefully plan
ned. He deserved a halved hole.
Three strokes of mine and Bobby's
were prophetic of the play in the
remainder of the match. Mine gave
me the jump and’ the psychological
advantage. Thereafter I kept at the
top of my game, while luck seemed
always against him. I finished the
first nine holes 6 up, got a 69 for
the IS* holes and broke the course
record. In the afternoon I won out
8 up and 7 holes to go.
In the finals I heat Chick Evans,
winning the 1922 title.
My Near Tragedy of 1923
IF to win a national champion
ship is the greatest joy that can
come to a golfer, the greatest sor
row that can befall him is to go to
the next succeeding title tournament
and fall to qualify. This tragedy was
almost visited upon me at Flossmoor
in 1923.
Every man who entered the quali
fying round at Floosmoor will Tecall
with a shiver the hardness and slip
pery ness of the greens, due to a con
tinued spell of dry weather. Pitch
ing upon them was a very ticklish
task. And putting was even more
difficult.
My game was not off form ex
cept upon the greens. At the end
of the mnrniag round I had run up
a total of 40 putts and this had
given me a score of 80.
It had been figured,that a score
of 160 or better would he necessary
t« qualify. A* the defending cham
pion. I mailed the rase nf Huh
Gardner, wIki. if memory serve*
me right, raptured the title at tlie
( hiesgo tiolf rlub in 19419, and St
Brookline in 191ft, failed to get into
tlie matell play: and my heart fell
as I realized that I was In danger
nf having a similar experience.
In the afternoon I got going good
again and was all par until I reached
the eixth hole, just about the hard
est on the course. There it seemed
that my worst fears were to be con
firmed.
The 440-yard sixth Is a dog leg hole.
The fairway bends around a clump
of big trees on the right- and con
nects up with a long, rather narrow
green. The tee-shot should be to the
left side of the course, so that a
clear shot for the green can he ob
tained.
My tee-shot did not go as intended,
so It was necessary to use a slice
on the second stroke in order to get
around the trees. This was ac
complished successfully and I con
gratulated myself when I found that
I had placed my ball Just off the
edge of the green, on smooth turf and
not more than 30 feet from the cup.
By good luck I had barely avoided
two sand traps at the right and
prospects seemd good.
From whre I lay the green had
an uward incline. It was as slip
pery, almost, as ice. I used a chip
shot and laid my ball two feet be
yond the hole. The next putt was
a short one, hut down hill. Al
though I barely tapped my ball It
slipped past the cup and four feet
down tlie slope. The next try re
turned me to the exact spot from
which I had Just come. My heart
waa in my mouth as I patted again,
but this time 1 went down—in six,
two above par!
This was decidedly unsettling.
And when I took three putts each
ot the next two holes I knew the
pangs of genuine anxiety.
Coming in it was necessary for me
to get a 79 to be at all sure of quali
fying. With the last two holes still
to be played, I had tt strokes, but
par for each of those holes was five.
One was 690 yards long, the other
5 0, and there were numerous oppor
tunities fbr troubls.
Following my disastrous experience
In the sixth, seventh and eighth holer*
I had buckled down and played better
golf, but now- 1 played In real earnest.
Things broke well for me snd I got a
brace of birdie fours. This gave me
77 for the afternoon round and 157 for
the 36 holes.
This round was pi.*yed on ■ Satur
day. Before Monday arrived rain
had fallen ami match play was
started under different condition*.
Having escaped the misfortune that
befell Bob Gardner in 1910, I man
aged-to reach the final*, where I
was bealen by Max Mar»ton.
I.ucky Thirteenth Hole at Brookline.
STRANGELY enough the 380 yard
13th hole was the lucky hole for
me In the tournament at Brook
line. In which 1 won the national title
The turning point In two of my moat
Important matches came st this hole
In the round before the semi-finals
I played Jesse Gullfold of Boston, de
fending champion, anil for the first
time since the tournament started I
was down to an opponent. Jesse was
two up on me as we reached the 13th
hole in the morning round.
Both of us got good drives, but.
whereas Guilford's second stroke
put him on the green In two and
only 13 feet short of the cup, mine
was 20 feet off to the left, with a
down hill roll over a slippery green
to be conquered.
My first putt was si* feet past
the cup, while Jesse placed his only
two beet beyond it. When my sec
ond fell three inches short he had a
good chance to win the hole, but he
missed, and we halved in five.
This was great luck for me. Had I
lost the hole I would have been three
down, a difficult handcap to overcome.
But I took fresh courage and my
game picked up. On the 18th hole a
20-foot putt squared the match. In
the afternoon I took the lead and won
out.
In the finals with Chirk Evans
the 13th again favored me. After
good drives Chick laid his second
shot six feet from the cup. t'sing a
“spade" I waa lucky enough to pitch
my ball two feet inside his. He
missed Iris putt for a three, but
laid me a half stymie. I succeeded
in getting around it for a birdie
thaw.
Before reaching the 13th I was two
up. Had Chick's great second stroke
won him th# hole I would have been
only ons up and th# whole complexion
of the‘match might have changed.
Only five holes remained to he played.
Being three up, I won out on the 16th
green by halving three holes In suc
essston.
fCopyrlght, 1114.)
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