TIME
Good old fashioned California Christmas weather beamed on the bunkers as the Pacific winter golf season began at San Diego. Leo Diegel from far away, frozen White Plains, N. Y., holed a 50 foot putt on the home green to win the first round with 67, five under par. When famed professionals from all over U. S. had completed 54 holes Diegel’s score was still low, 214. For this the San Diego Country Club stuffed $1,000 in his Christmas stocking.
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