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more about the pro tournament:
Some info from an article written by Grantland Rice 2 years after the first professional tournament was held at National:
some of the players: Tommy Armour, Hagen, Cruickshank (or ..... Quick-Shank - hah). Bill Melhorn, Gene Sarazen - they were all there.
Armour won the tournament with 302 for 72 holes about 75 per round
Melhorn was the only player to get make a 72 for the 4 rounds and Armour, Cruickshank and Farrell were the 73's.
Hole #10 435 yards (the course was now in the present routing), the highest stroke average.
Alps a close second in difficulty.
The present 8th was next most difficult and at that time was only at it’s 386-yard length (!) G Rice: “This hole offers more trouble off the tee than any other on the course” ................ “deep trap (it’s a bunker Grantland) guarding a plateau green doesn’t help lessen the trouble” ...... it appears, on average, these holes played a full stroke over par.
Gene Sarazen started out 4 - 3 - 4 - 3 - 4 - 3 “and then after a fine drive on the long 7th woke up with an 8 of a 9 before he knew what had taken place”