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Johnston; 4, Francis Ouimet; 5, Roland R. MacKenzie; 6, Maurice McCarthy, Jr.; 7, George Von Elm; 8, Arthur V. Yates; 9, Edward Held; 10, George J. Voigt. The best pros. for 1927: 1, Tommy Armour; 2, Walter Hagen; 3, Johnny Harrell; 4, Bobby Cruickshank; 5, Harry Cooper; 6, Gene Sarazen; 7, Johnny Golden; 8, Joe Turnesa; 9, Al. Espinosa; 10, Willie Macfarlane. Mrs. Burns Horn, of Kansas City, is given premier place as a result of winning the National Championship and Miss Collett second place because she won more golf tournaments than any other player—the Eastern, the North and South and the Wolf Hollow. It will be noticed that Miss Helen Payson, who captured the Canadian Open at Lambton, is put in fifth place. Consid- ering that the Lambton field was just as classy as that in the U. S. Openthis hardly seems the correct rating for her. She should have been placed second or third. 2 In the men’s list “Chick” Evans is placed second to Jones, because he reached the final in the U. 8. Open. It is sometime now since Evans has been 660 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 13, No. 9 rated so high, although a decade or so ago he was generally at the top of the list or thereabouts. Armouris placed ahead of Hagen in the professional lists, and deservedly so, too, as a result of his winning both the U. 8. and Canadian Open. Little fault can be found in according Johnny Farrell third place and wee Bobby Cruickshank, the former Scottish amateur, fourth place. Nineteen Already some of the bigger city golf clubs have had their Hundred and annual meetings and judging from the reports received by Twenty-seven the “Canadian Golfer,’ 1927 will go down in golfing records Record Year as the greatest year in the history of the Royal and Ancient for Golf in game in Canada. Without exception the reports financially Canada are of the most encouraging description. Receipts have ex- ceeded expenditures in every case, whilst assets generally speaking, have been greatly augmented and indebtedness reduced. 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