The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-18

VA /EATHER permitting. the siStn
NV fortnightly tournament OF the San
Rafael Golf Club will be held to-
day, the principal events being a mems
handicap at eighteen holes and a women's
handicap at nine holes. The event set
down on the schedule of the Oakland Golf
Club Is the fourth contest for the cap
tain's cup, but the Oakland golfers are
devoting their attention so exclusively 10
the teachings OF Willie" Anderson and
Horace Rawlins that II is probable the
competition will be deferred. On Thanks
giving day there will be music and a re-
ception at the clubhouse at Adams Point.
The San Rafael Golf Club on Thanks
giving day will hold a general tOurna-
ment, open 10 members OF any golf club.
Members from other clubs who may wish
TO enter the tournament should send in
entries, accompanied by three detailed
scores. signed by one or more members
Of their club and stating on what links
and dates the scores were made.
A circular announcing the conditions OF
the open competition. match play. 10 be
held under the joint management OF the
Oakland and San Francisco golf clubs,
is being sent out by the secretaries TO all
the golf clubs on the Pacific Coast from
Victoria, B. c., TO San Diego inviting en-
tries The first tournament will be held
on the Preside links on Saturday Decem-
Der ..
golf course is going on steadily. In front
OF the fifth hole water hazard is being
made in a natural hollow, in which there
will be plenty OF water during half of the
year. The water will be about fifty feet
across and on the banks will be planted
wild rose bushes TO give the hazard
natural and pretty appearance.
In Mill Valley a few enthusiasts have
improvised a golf course. which. so far
as the obstacles and difficulties TO be en-
countered are concerned. leaves nothing
10 be desired. The first hole Is 275 yards
long, and as the play IS along the county
road a pulled or sliced ball will go over
the fence and get the player into all sorts
OF trouble. To the second hole the course
is across a field, with rough ground and
trees The distance is 100 yards. The third
teeing ground IS beyond a grove OF trees
and from II the player must drive over a
five-board fence, up a hill eighty feet high
and down the opposite slope. the length
OF the hole being 400 yards. The fourth
hole is protected by natural hazard in
the shape OF creek fifteen feet deep and
nearly nifty feet wide from bank TO bank
for 300 yards. after which he returns and
works his way back to the starting point
II requires good golf 10 get safely across
the creek, in front OF which there are two
bitches and rolling ground The course
Is interesting. and though II owes little
or nothing to art IS decidedly sporty. The
principal players on It are ]. II. Faraday.
II. G. Playfair and T. T. Greaves.
The new links OF the Los Angeles Coun-
try Club. which were formally opened
by the big open tournament OF the 4th
inst. provide the only full eighteen-hole
course to be found in California and IL is
said that the new clubhouse surpasses
any west OF Chicago. The members
OF the green's committee which laid out
and ]. f. Crook. assisted by H Grindlay.
who learned the royal game on the IA
nous st. Andrews links in Scotland. or
course the new links have no genuine