Two Yanks at Carnoustie

The crowd, the course and the weather were all peculiarly Scottish, but the winning golf in last week's British Amateur was an American monopoly. While a stinging wind whipped rain over Carnoustie course, two former U.S. amateur titleholders made it the first all-American final in the Amateur's 62-year history.

Little Willie Turnesa, only amateur among the seven famed golfing Turnesa brothers, was the first to reach the final. Finishing early, he then helped out his Walker Cup team mate, Dick Chapman, who was having trouble in his semifinal round. Turnesa held an umbrella over Dick's head while he played his short game, and whispered helpful hints in his ear between times. Chapman finally won his match on the 18th green.

Then the American friends had to fight it out between themselves. Chapman started out with a dazzling two under par for the first nine, went five holes ahead. Then Willie won five holes in a row to tie it up. At the 27th Willie went one up. On the next five holes Dick Chapman, playing the best golf of his career, racked up four pars and a birdie; Turnesa matched him stroke for stroke. On the 33rd Chapman faltered, missed a six-foot putt, and Turnesa took the hole. On the 34th, with a chance to stay in the running by halving, Chapman worried over his crucial putt for a full five minutes. Then he missed it. He turned to the crowd and said: "Willie's a great golfer."

Said Willie deprecatingly: "It's just a question of who putts. I did it today." He did it with his mother-in-law's putter: his own, a center-shafted model, is illegal on British courses.

In Newton Center, Mass., a British subject more than evened things up by continuing to beat the best U.S. pros. By winning the Goodall round robin, South Africa's Bobby Locke (TIME, May 26) made it four out of six tournaments (and some $8,350 in winnings) in two months of U.S. golf. For his last 25 tournament rounds, he was 41 under par.

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