March 31
Winter Park Golf Club
Winter Haven, Fla.
Mike Stevens reports – Casual observers strolling along Park Avenue may have felt like they passed through a temporal distortion. Men in plus fours, shirts and ties and ladies in long flowing skirts dotted the fairways of the 1914 Winter Park Golf Club. They might have stepped into 1914 for all they knew. The only thing missing were Model T autos rolling along the surrounding roadways.
The Florida Hickory Golfers rolled back the clock and played half the round with reproduction Haskell style balls and then way back finishing with gutta percha balls like Old and Young Tom Morris. Tees were fashioned out of sand just as they did at the turn of the century, 20th century that is.
Will Peterson demonstrated comparable skill to Jones and Vardon carving out an even par 70 to take low gross honors by a margin of nine shots. Net winner was Jeff Shafer with 61 while James Chambers and Bernie Alessandrini took the team title.
Of interest is that most players scored better with the gutta percha ball than the more modern ball. The average score on the front side was 43.3 while the back nine average was 42.6.
Low Gross
Will Peterson 70 $20
Dan Colfax 79 $10
Low Net
Jeff Shafer 61 $20
Dave Webster 65 $10
Low Team Plus
Alessandrini/Chambers 10 $40
Grula/Dunigan 9 $30
Tracy/Corbin 4 $20
