Seventy-two holes of tournament golf is a lot of tournament golf for a woman when it is all medal play. The first such tournament was played last week at the Flossmoor club near Chicago where women's par is 80 strokes. Four times par was broken and once it was equalled, but the final scores in a field of 49 were a long parade beginning 14 strokes behind the par 320 scored by chunky, freckle-some Helen Hicks of Long Island. She had two course-record-breaking 78's to start with, which gave her subsequent 83 and 81 comfortable leeway under Virginia Van Wie of...
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