The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-15
GOLF
W. G. stewart May Play in the tournament
for the Amateur Championship.


for the Amateur Championship.
Now that the full programme and conditions
for the amateur championship has been issued
by the L. s.. G. A.. the players who hope for a
share OF the honors must practice and train
~assiduously for the contest. which. at six days
Of thlrty-six hole rounds. will be a severe trial
OF strength and skill. The motive in extending
the preliminary rounds to thirty-six holes was
to do away with the element Of luck that often
enables a poorer player to win from a scratch
man by a fortunate run of few holes in a short
match OF eighteen holes. Under the new plan
OF long matches luck will not cut a figure. while
they offer to the experienced golfers every on
p~ortunity 20 show the science OF his game. The
play should be the best ever seen Ia an Amer
lean ship. Tor the course is nearly
5000 yards long and has been arranged at n
great expense especially for this competition.
W. Girdwood Stewart will sail for this coun-
try on Aug. -. according to a letter from a
member Of the Essex County Country Club to a
friend in this city. The Essex man has been
playing at Troon. Scotland. where one Of HIS
noteble experiences was to follow foursome
between Willie FeTnie and 3 Mr.. jenkins and
square. although the amateurs we're ) down at
the turn. never saw golf until saw them
play" is the enthusiastic commentQ Of the Essex
County player. OF the Troon links he writes:
II you can imagine hillocky sand dunes,
with the grass cut in the direction Of the line Of
play and long grass of the course. the Firth Of
Clyde 100 yards away. with few bunkers and
those more like sand pits and small. and TO an
American eve the course pretty rough, you
orally good. except on the side or base OF the
sand hillocks, when they are hard to pIay from.
except when you know how; but the greens
phew! they are fine, very large and rolling.
with all natural fluctuations left in. with short.
true"
Should Stewart sail he will be in time for the
amateur championship. He eQualled the record
for the links In the qualifying round for the
last Morris County open tournament and found
the turf and distances much to his liking.
This will be a quiet week in local gollng. the
one brigh SPOT being the return match on
next Saturday between the Dyker Meadow
at the Dyker Meadow links. The Dyker Mead
DIV team had been quite successful this season
until it went to Greenwich and was beaten by
80 holes. On next Saturday every effort will be
made to turn the tables on the, Fairfield team.
During the week ending Aug. 9 the members
OF the Royal ard Ancient Golf Club held their
annual handicap tournament for the Calcutta
Cup over the links OF st. Andrews. Scotland.
Aside from the championship no match play
fixture ia Great Britain confers more disttnc-
ton on an amateur than 70 win the Calcutta
Cup. There were sixty-two entries, includinR
twelve scratch men, but Balfour-Melville was
not in the lists. In the final Edward Black
well tOl beat D.. J. Simson ~ By 4 up and 3 TO
play.
LESox. Aug. 14-The largest crowd OF the
year saw some good play on the Lenox Golf
Club links yesterday. Following the handicap
there was a putting contest at three. four. and
five yards for silver prizes offered by Col. John
s. Barnes. Carlos D. Heredia won the mems
prize in 5 William A. Taylor OF New York
won the handicap. Scores follow: