European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday August 18. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Jones boys love to frustrate golfers the name of the most feared Man in Golf Well in might Surprise you to know that the most feared name in Golf is not Raymond Floyd or Lann Wadkins or Jack Nicklaus of Tom Watson or even Lee Trevino the most feared name in Golf belongs to a Guy who never wan a major never broke 80 at Augusta never made the Cut in an open and. To Tell the truth never got much better than a i 0-handicapper. The name of the most feared competitor in Golf is Robert t. Jones. Wait a minute not that Bob Jones. This one comes in duplicate. I have reference not to the late Robert Tyre Jones the player but to he two Robert Trent Joneses or. And or. The Jones boys in their Way have done More to frustrate the great golfers of the world with a few buckets of Sand a Surveyor s transit and a Bulldozer than All the great shot makers of history put together. You have to understand a Golf tournament is not like a prizefighter or a Tennis match. It s More like a Mountain climb. It s not Man against Man. If s Man against nature. But nature needs help. And that s where the Joneses come in. They Are Golf course they Are All that stand Between Golf and a whole Bunch of Guys who would destroy it if hey could who would male a mockery of Par who would go around shooting 2s and 3s and i if they had their Way. They Don t like anyone or anything that won i let them mention the Joneses to a tour golfer and the chances Are a film will come Over his eyes his Teeth will appear to grow his hair stiffen and be will be Girt to Jam. He will look like a Guy about to have a stroke. Golf is a never ending Bailie Between player and Topography. And the player seems to be win Ning. He has All the weapons explains Robert Trent Jones or. He has the hot Golf Bath the Square grooves the Graphite shafts the Metal Woods dimpled Ball someone has to come to the Aid of the Golf course or it will become an endangered species is the View of Bob Jones or. He sees the Golf course As a Cit under siege a Vic Lisburg if you will and himself As the general in charge of defending it. They even took the fatigue Factor out of the game Yean ago when someone Down in Palm sprints came up with the idea of the Golf cart he complains. Course today Are As defenceless Tom Walson has said As a naked lady in a bad neighbourhood. The players Are bigger the implement Are better. The manufacturers May come out any Day with dial i Par clubs and for courses nothing seems left but a Timoi photo Robert Trent Jones or. Golfs toughest competitor scorched Earth policy. But Bob Jones or. Is not ready to strike his colors father and he have designed or remodeler More than 50 of the 130 courses lapped by the society of Golf architects As the Best in the world history. A lot of us Sec Golf courses today As modern Pau line whiles damsels in distress tied to the tracks with the limited on Lime and bearing Down. Bob Jones or. Sees himself As a Guy galloping to the can t shrink the Hole or go Back to wooden shafts or the Gutta Percha Ball he says. So you have to find � Way to build a course thai won l yield to the Caveman approach. You have to have a course that makes the golfer think As Well As shoot Well. You can t keep having the kind you can play Blind is not a function of just brutalizing a course putting pins in Sand traps growing Eye High rough piping in the Pacific Ocean or cutting in two Story Sand traps with the Santa be Railroad running up the s not Golf that s monopoly Jones says a penalty Golf course go Back one snot do not pass go Type of anyone can carve out a a Nal institution Young Jones believes. You just make All the greens 2,000 feel Square instead of 7,000, you have them All fall away at the Back and you seed them with fescue so the Ball won l Slop. But that s not design that s throwing out the game to save Jones who has just built the last Golf course the player Don t believe the 0 belongs in the word course in the necklace of them that line the Mon Terey Peninsula Spanish Bay and whole other jewel is the splendid Colo de Caza in Orange county thinks the trick is to fashion a course that the Mem Bers can play comfortably but will also Challenge the pros. The professional goes for birdies. Thai s where he s vulnerable he Points out. The ploy is to entice him. Not exactly camouflage the target but make in coquettish to the player. Tease him into mistakes. I Don t want a course where you can just bust a drive and an 8-Iron, but i Don t want one where you take the Driver out of the game for a i Iron one of Jones techniques is to construct moguls in a Fairway Golf equivalents of the humps of Snow on a downhill ski slope. These he says Are More Treach Erous than traps in a Fairway because they tend lode Lect a shot Landing on them sometimes out of Bounds. They also leave a player with a dreaded downhill or distance costing Uphill shots. Jack Nicklaus no less has protested the unfair Ness of these As a design because a player can hit a perfect shot splitting the Fairway off the lev Only to tee it carom far right or left into trouble or worse out of Bounds. Jones differs. We offer the player an area Down one Side of the Fairway where he will Tiol have to Lake Utah Chance. He will get a level lie. We put some Challenge in the tee shot. We put position Back in Golf How Many Golf architects Are there in the business of Prelec Ting Golf How Many Golf architects Are there says Jones laughing. How Many golfers Are there anyone who Ever broke Par thinks he is a Golf architect. Anyone who Ever won a tournament knows he is. You Sec in the game s infancy t designer used to Lay out a course to suit his game. Was he a right to left player the course went right to Teft. A Good Putter big greens. They gerrymandered a the players Lumen a Chilel today do the same thing Jones says. They build heroic courses counts for Guys who hit the Ball High and Jones wants to build course thai will continue to make the pros gnash their Teeth throw their putters and give interviews that link the Jones boys Wilh All the devils of history. That s music to Bob s ears. After All. Napoleon hated Wellington Loo. Tow lot ant Fri to . Swimmers win 24 of 32 golds Brisbane Australia a world record Holder Pablo Morales and Sieve Bentley led the Way sunday night As the United Stales again dominated on the fourth and final Day of Competition Al the pan Pacific swimming championships at the Chandler aquatic Center. Morales won the men s 100-meter bul a Erflg final in a Lime of 53.37 seconds beating lot Angeles olympic Gold med Alist Jon Sieben of Australia who finished second. Bentley took out the men s 200-meter in an american record time of 2 minutes 14.99 seconds the fastest time in the world this year and the third fasten Ever. Bentley retailed world record Holder Vic Tor Davis Ocanada to third United states finished the four Day meet contested by More than Joo swimmers from 14 nations with 24 Gold medals in 32 events. Australia finished Wilh four golds while Canada won three and China american team won five golds sunday night but suffered a stunning setback when australian Julie Mcdon Ald a 17-year-old swimming in front of he Hometown crowd Oul raced Liny world record Holder Janet Evans. Mcdonald clipping six seconds off her personal Best won in 8 23.18 the second fastest time Ever. Evans 15, from Placentia calif., was second in 8 33.11, Well outside the world record of 8 22.44 she set at the . Nationals in Fresno calif., three weeks ago. Evans set world freestyle Marks in the 1500 and 800 Al Fresno but trailed Mcdonald after the 150-meter Mark sunday nigh l. Mcdonald. Chinese schoolgirl plan Hong in the women s Ido meter Butterfly and australian i 500-meter freestyle specialist Michael Mckenzie prevented a clean sweep by the Amer Auu sunday . Also captured the men s and women s 400-meter Medley relays and 15-year-old Calif Oman schoolgirl Amy Shaw won the women s 200-meter breaststroke won the 1500 Fres Lyle in 15 08.08, Belling out american Champi on Dan Jorgensen of san Diego who was timed in i s l 2.09. Qian 16, became the first chinese swimmer to capture a pan Pacific title by winning her specially in 1 00.24. Qian from he Sci province North of Beijing held off american duo Angel Myers and Jenna Johnson. Myers from Americus ga., was Sec Ond in 1 00.62, with Johnson from Santa rosa., calif., third in 1 00.90. Qian s Lime was the fourth fastest in the world this University graduate Morales a 22-year-old resident of Santa Clara calif., was clocked in 53.37 seconds to beat the Man who Defeated him in the 1984 los Angeles olympic games final. Sieben recovering from a shoulder in jury was second m 54.21 after finishing Biondi of inc United Stales the world 100-Mcier freestyle record Holder was third in 54.34. Morales Gold medallist Al the world championships in Madrid Spain last year led from Slan to finish but was Well of Tiido his own world Mark of 52,84, set in Orlando Fla. Last fell Good morale Laid. I hit the water feeling confident and in was a real smooth Lime was the fastest in the world this year and the fourth quickest of All time. Bentley led from Start to finish As he captured the 200 breaststroke. He led teammate Brett Beedle of los Altos,calif., 2 17.80, and Davis. 2 18.27. Shaw broke her own american recording clocking 2 29.i8 in the women s 200 breaststroke final edging out Huang Xiaoming of China 2 29.66 Over the final 50 swam a Superb Anchor log to lift the United states to Victory in the men s 400 Medley the team of Dan Caich Richard Schroeder Morales and Biondi clocked 3 41.73 to finish ahead of Canada and . Women s team of Kristin Linchan Susan Johnson Angel men and dam Torres was timed in 4 09, in beating Canada and world records were set Al the meet Wilh american Tom Jagur swim Ming 22.12 seconds in the so Meier free style thursday night and his compatriot Dave Whartan clocking 4 16.17 in the 400 individual Medley Friday night. Wharton was named outstanding mate swimmer of the meet with Mcdonald taking the women s award
