Friday, August 8, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven
'Unknown' takes early PGA lead
By The Associated Press pace-setting effort that left the didn't take up the game of golf Nicklaus, holder of a record I'd have whiffed it."
AKRON, Ohio - Mark Hayes, game's more glamorous names' until six years ago. 15 major crowns and the heavy Weiskopf had to mount a
a refugee from the ranks of the gasping, gaping and gawking While unfamiliar n a m e s favorite to add another here, birdie-birdie-birdie finish to sal-
M o n d a y morning qualifiers, well in his wake. moved to the top of this fourth shot a par 70 and was in strong vage a par 70, joining Nicklaus
mastered m a s s i v e Firestone One stroke back at 68 were and last of the season's Big contention. But he said his in a group three shots back of
with a three-under-par 67 and Benson, a look-alike, sound-alike Four tournaments, the game's round was "a bit frustrating. I Hayes. "It looked like I was
led the advance of the game's to George Goebel, and Larry premier performers encount- drove the ball well. My iron gonna shoot myself right out of
more obscure names and un- Hinson, a 31-year-old tour regu- ered a variety of worries and game was good. I putted good. the tournament," said Weiskopf,
familiar faces in yesterday's lar who has been in a five-year woes on the sprawling acres And I shot even par. I played who missed the green and three-
first round of the 57th PGA Na- slump. of the Firestone Country Club better than that." putted for double bogey on the
tional Championship. At 69 there was one familiar, course, 7,180 yards of tree- Defending champion L ee 10th
Bob Benson, Fred Wampler portly figure, Billy Casper, now studded countryside that com- Trevino had a career-first on hole. Now I'm back in it.
and Ed Dougherty all were a gentleman farmer who broke prise one of the game's long- his way to a scrambly 73. He Also in the big group at 70
among the leaders in this pres- away from cherry harvest on est layouts. hit his tee shot on No. 7, a was British Open champion
tige-laden event while, in a di- his Utah fruit farm to make an The most troubled of all was par three, as the ball was Tom Watson, who plays well in
rect form reversal, Johnny Mil- appearance here. Miller, the record-setting sensa- falling off the grass tee. the major championships and
ler played so poorly he was Sharing that spot, two shots tion of the early season who "It fell back, off the grass I'd who may have shaken a habit
thinking of going home, Jack back, were Wampler, 51, the stumbled and struggled to a 79, scuffed up, just as I swung," of blowing the big ones with the
Nicklaus admitted to frustration 1954 Los Angeles Olen chamnpion eight over par and one of his he said. "If it'd fallen sideways, win at Carnoustie, Scotland.

and Tom Weiskopf-at one time
-all but shot himself out of it.
Hayes, a tour sophomore
who still faces the trauma of
the qualifying rounds in order
to gain a spot in regular tour
events, birdied three of four
holes at one stretch in his

but a club pro for the last 16
years; Bob Wynn, a 35-year-old
tourist who blew a chance for
his first title when he took a
horrendous eight on the 71st
hole of the Philadelphia Classic
a couple of months ago; and
Dougherty, 27, a tour rookie who

poorest rounds in years.
"I'm thinking about going
home and taking some lessons,"
he said. "I was awful. I bogeyed
all four par threes. It was ter-
rible. I just wish the season was
over. There's no point in my
playing any more."

First round scores

Mark Hayes
Bob Benson
Larry Hinson
Ed Dougherty
Billy Casper
Bob wynn
Fred wampler
Jack Nicklaus
Ray Floyd
Al Geberger
Art wall
Mike Morley
Tom weiskopf
Tom watson
Bruce Devlin
Jim Dent
Dave Hill
John Mahaffey
Bob Stanton
Steve Melnyk

33-34-67
36-32-68
35-33-6s
37-32-69
34-35-69
35-34-69
33-36-69
34-36-70
37-33-70
34-36-70
35-35-70
37-33-70
34-36-70
36-34-70
36-34-70
35-35-70
35-36-71
36-35-71
35-36-71
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AP Photo
EARLY LEADER Mark Hayes gives it his best in getting out
of a bunker on the 18th hole during first round action of the
57th PGA National Championship at at Akron, Ohio. Hayes,
26, a tour sophomore from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, took
the early lead by firing a 3-under-par 67. Defending champion
Lee Trevino finished the day six strokes off the pace with a 73.
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