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World Cup Runneth Over in Friendship and Skill WORLD CUP RUNNETH OVER By JOSEPH C. DEY, JR. IN FRIENDSHIP AND SKILL USGA Executive Director • he Eisenhower Trophy had just courses, in a spectacularly beautiful T been presented to the United location on high bluffs bordering the States team. Now the amateur golfers ocean. The hotel and the courses were of 23 countries, lined up alongside the reserved for the players and others flagpoles flying their national colors, associated with the Championship. The were about to break ranks on the ter- fact that all the principals were under race of a lovely, secluded Japanese one roof gave a special flavor to the resort overlooking the vast Pacific. tournament and a special opportunity This was the end of the third WorId for people to know one another. Team Championship. The Fuji Course, scene of the tourna- But no! From the handsome hotel ment, is a Championship test by any behind the terrace came the moving standard. It was played at 6,587 yards strains of "Auld Lang Syne" (thought- with a par of 70. Fuji has some steep fully arranged by the hotel's director, hills and odd bounces to accentuate the Kiyoshi Sawakuri). problems of its excellent golfing design. Nothing was spared to keep it in ex- Spontaneously, those who knew the cellent order. words started to sing, and in a jiffy everybody was joining in. An The turf cover is "Korai" (Korean) Australian player, Tom Crow, crossed grass, or zoysia, with a fine-bladed his arms and clasped the hands of the hybridized type used on the putting men on each side of him, and before greens. Zoysia is a stiffish grass which the singing had reached the second affords marvelous lies in the fairway, "should auld acquaintance be forgot", comparable with our very best Ber- everybody was united in a double, arm- mudagrass. On the putting green, it crossed handclasp. You could have demands a truly made stroke, else easily counted the dry eyes. errors are accentuated. Although this was their first experience with zoysia This, then, was the true if unsched- for nearly all the players, most of them uled ending of the World Championship learned to deal with it effectively. There last month-an ending which confirmed were 13 sub-par scores in the 368 the renewal of old friendships and the rounds played by 92 competitors; six start of new ones-an ending, and yet were made in the final round. Three a beginning. Even in the flush of the players scored 66. American victory, a visitor from the The United States was represented United States apprehended far deeper by Iljot only a winning team but also values than those of golf competition. a corps of fine ambassadors-Deane R. For this is what the World Amateur Beman of Bethesda, Md., 24; Labron Golf Team Championship is all about. Harris, Jr., of Stillwater, Okla., the Japan contributed generously to the National Amateur Champion, who development of that spirit, first with turned 21 on September 27; William J. boundless hospitality and, secondly, Patton, of Morgantown, N. C., 40; and with a remarkably fine home for the Richard H. Sikes, 22-year-old college event. The Kawana Hotel near Ito, student of Springdale, Ark. Their non- some 75 miles southwest of Tokyo, is playing Captain was John D. Ames, of a golfer's Shangri-La. It has two golf Chicago, former USGA President, one USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: NOVEMBER, 1962 5 AT THE WORLD AMATEUR Gary Cowan of Canada, above left, was low individual scorer in recent World Amateur Team Championship, scoring 72- 68-71-69-280. He was three shots ahead' of Richard H. Sikes, above, who led the, winning U. S. team with 283. Below is the, flag-raising prior to start of play, at the Kawana Hotel, /to, Japan. of the original organizers of the World Canada's second-place 215. The lead Amateur Golf Council and a first Joint shifted during a rainy second round; Chairman. when it ended Canada was ahead, 432 To appreciate the victory of the to 438, with New Zealand holding a Americans, the novel scoring system of close third position. the World Championship must be un- The Americans rebounded strongly, derstood. The competition is 72 holes wiped out Canada's six-stroke lead, stroke play. Each team's four players and went ahead by two at the 54-hole play all four rounds; the team's score point, 649 to 651. They were not to be consists of the best three individual denied in the stretch run. scores in each round. Thus, the results Young R. H. Sikes, our National may well be in doubt until the last Public Links Champion the last two player of each team finishes. So it years, won a host of admirers by both was at Kawana. his personality and his play in scoring Going into the last round, the United three 69s and a 76. His personal total States led Canada by merely two of 283 was the second best of the strokes, which is really no lead at all event. Except for a second-round 80, in this style of play. The experienced Deane Beman played superlative golf Billy Joe Patton was America's first with two 70s and a 66. His 286 was player in the climactic round, but he the third lowest individual total. came a cropper and finished with 81. Labron Harris had 292 and made a For the other Americans, this meant grand finish which had much to do that each of them needed to keep the with his team's victory. Patton was ball rolling, with little or no margin our lowest scorer in the rain of the for error. Here is what those young second round. men did when they had to do it: Beman, In the two previous World Champ- 66; Harris, 70; Sikes, 69 ;-a total of ionships Canada finished sixth. This 205, tying the second-best single-round time Gary Cowan set a pace that made score since the Championship was in- his side a leader from the start. augurated. It was a gallant finish, Cowan played marvelous golf and re- particularly as Harris and Sikes were turned' the lowest individual total, new to international team play. Cheer- 72-68-71-69-280, level with Kawana's ing them on after he finished was Billy exacting par. His teammates were Bill Joe Patton, who is always an inspiring Wakeham, Nick Weslock, and Bob fellow to have around. Wylie, under the captaincy of Dr. Jack Canada is Second Best E. Leddy, President of the Royal The United States' winning score Canadian Golf Association. was 854. Canada was second with 862, Three of the first five teams were followed by Great Britain and Ireland, fl.'lom North America. Mexico's prog- 874; New Zealand, 882; and Mexico ress in golf development was empha- 887. One of the great surprises was sized when its team took fifth position. the fine play by the Republic of China Juan Antonio Estrada, a fine golfer on team; their 892 won sixth place by a any course, had the fourth best indi- stroke over Australia, which had been vidual score of 287. He and Ronnie runner-up to the United States in 1960 Shade, of Great Britain and Ireland, and winner of the first Championship made 66s along with Deane Beman. in 1958. Then came South Africa, 896. Following are the 72-hole scores of Japan made a splendid showing to be all the teams: ninth with 902. Canada duelled with the United 1. United States of America 854 2. Canada 862 States from the outset. After the first 3. Great Britain and Ireland 874 round, the USA led with 212, to 4. New Zealand 882 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: NOVEMBER, 1962 7 HANDS ACROSS THE SEAS Impromptu clasping of hands and singing of "Auld Lang Syne" concluded the Eisenhower competition in Japan. Left to right, at left, are C. W. Benedict, United States; Shun Nomura, Tournament Chairman; Yu;i Ko- dera and Masakazu aka, Vice- Chairmen. Below, reading from top of circle clockwise, are Dr. W. D. Ackland - Horman, Australia; Henry H. Turcan, Great Britain; Mitsu;iro Iskii, President, Japan Golf Association; Gabriel Tu- dela, Peru; Brig. W L. Steele, Great Britain; H. S. Malik, India (in turban); Joseph C. Dey, Jr., United States. 5. Mexico 887 the Emperor was Honorary Chairman 6. Republic of China 892 of the tou~nament and, with his 7. Australia 893 8. South Africa 896 charming Princess, welcomed the 9. Japan 902 guests at the reception, along with 10. Argentina 905 Mitsujiro Ishii and Shun Nomura, the 11. Italy 912 Japan Golf Association's President 12. Germany 926 13. Philippines 929 and Vice-President, respectively. 14. India 931 Well-organized transportation by 15. Hong Kong 942 railroad took all players and delegates 16. Sweden 943 17. Switzerland 947 to Kawana in a happy group the next 18. Spain 961 morning. There they spent eight de- 19. Brazil 964 lightful days and ,came to know beyond 20. Bermuda 980 peradventure the warm hospitality and 21. Peru 985 22. Malaya 1,036 great diligence of their Japanese 23. Pakistan 1,056 friends in providing a first-class Visitors to Kawana were impressed golfing experience. Special mention with the excellence of the course must be made of Yuji Kodera, the conditioning under the diligent super- Tournament Chairman; Masakazu intendence of S. Takemoto. There were Oka, Toyohiko Inui, Takeaki Kaneda, dozens of maintenance workers, mostly who published a magnificent program; women, on the course throughout Ichizo Oguri, and Mrs.
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