Winter Golf

The season of Southern golf tournaments opened, with large cash prizes, to advertise winter resorts.

The pros gathered at Long Beach, Calif.

The 1929 National Amateur, it was learned, will be played at Pebble Beach, Del Monte, Calif.

At the first Catalina Open Tournament, an annual event worth $2,500 to the winners, the scores were phenomenally low. Walter Hagen's was 62-62-60-62--246. Horton Smith, 20-year-old pro from Missouri, had 62-58-61-63--245; one under Hagen and eleven under par. He got $500.