New-York tribune., 1900-03-05
GOLF.
VILE SEASON AT ITS HEIGHT ON SOUTH
ERN LINKS.
TIE WEEKS TOURNAMENT AT MIAM-vARDoN
TO PLAY AT ATLANTIC CTTV-A NEW
GOLF CLUB FOR THE VAN
C0RTLaNDT COURSE.

CoRTLANDT COURSE.
with the coming Of March there is evidence OF
ez-s5 activity ali the local golf clubs. In
teN weeks the season Of open tournaments will
-, and players who are now induging in winter
e,ice at the South will come trooping back for
- annual series on metropolitan links. Just
,bs Florida season is at its height. On Friday and
saturday Of this week the Miami Golf Club will
hold an open tournament for the Miami cups, and
most Of the better known golfers in the South
are expected TO compete
The qualifying round is TO be thirty-six holes
rho 1,laver making the best score TO receive the
Rcval Palm Cup. The first sixteen in this round
will he eligible for the chief match play trophy and
.5e second sixteen for the consolation prize The
Miami links is considered one of the best on the
est coast Of Florida and the result should be ex-
tremeIy satisfactory The is made up as
follows
.io $50 45a lts "a $40 l5o a9s 4s2s Ee7! 97a
Following this viii come the annual tournament
A. Palm Beach March l3 and a. in which the
conditions and prizes viii be virtually the same
From there the golfers Will go TO Ormond, where
a similar tournament is scheduled for March II
and l9 The next stopping place in this attractive
series is 81. Augustine where March % and "A are
the chosen dates Here the winner of the qualify
ing round viii receive the Ponce de Leon Cup
while the winner in the match play is TO have the
ST Augustine Cup. On March e6, q and IS the
winter championship Of the Florida East Coast
Golf Club IS 10 be decided on the St Augustine
links open 10 all who have played IN the other
tournaments during the month.
It is probable that the open tournament on the
Richmond links April ? will have most OF the
Florida players as competitors. The Jefferson Golf
Club, Of Richmond. is coming prominently the
front as a golhng headquarters. and Northern
visitors who down that way speak enthusias-
ucaIy OF the course Though only a nine-hoIe one
Il conforms TO the recognized tenets Of the game
where the best golf is certain of the best results
The circuit measures Piss yards, the longest hole
being Sss yards and the shortest yards Willie"
Tucker formerly the professional a ST Andrews
laid II out IN 1896. and Ernest Way has charge of
t now The ground is rolling and well supplied
with hazards. and water is laid to every green
Five silver cups to be offered as prizes
Still another tournament will serve TO attract
the returning pilgrims before the Metropolitan
district is reached. Atlantic City which gave
such successful affair last autumn in the field
again, with four day contest. April l. 5, and
T. W. E. Edge. the secretary OF the club, writes
that Fardon IS certain TO be a competitor and
vii play the best ball OF two leading amateurs
one Of whom will he Findlay Douglas the ex-
champion. The match is to be made the closing
feature OF the meeting. and VIII no doubt attract
most OF the golhng set of Philadelphia and this
city. After Atlantic City. comes the annual spring
tournament at Lakewood, and then the Metropoli-
tcn season lie ''on' for the year
The custom Of giving puts" which has be-
come so prevalent in golf OF late is being op-
posed by not few OF the leading golfers in this
city. An old player who is well known In Staten
Island golhng circles but who desired to have his
nsme Withheld, said yesterday, in commenting on
the evil:
player. IN ny opinion, should be compelled 10
knows anything about golf that the short NUS are
sometimes the easiest 10 miss Take, for instance
reached, One Of them Is eighteen inches from the
cali II halVed?' The other mods assent and botb
bsls are picked up and carried to the next tee
o. ten both could have putted successfully But
his shaky distance and thought it just as weiI not
,1 70 risk his chance by attempting ,t. Hasn't ne
out and see if It is haived hole. That is the only
sportsmanlike way.
Now that the professional championship has been
awarded to the Chicago Golf Club many people are
curious TO know what kind Of an organization this
energetic Western club is. and what its facilities
ar for taking care Of the championship crowds
1ne club is situated at Wheaton a little town
1oout twenty-five miles west of Chicago boasting
college and other suburban Iuxurfes but il Is
Na'Nh Chiefly as the home of the most select
eohng set Of the Windy City. The clubhouse
+lO9ef is comsnodous building Of red brick with
se'eial turrets at the corners, and on account OF
As many additions has irregular shape and an
'Fefsrown appearance AS for the course no ex
seSe mas been spared in making It the finest in
SIC west Lacking in natural hazards the def
-neE hss been made a point in fits favor. and the
""suucuons have been so placed that perfect golf
required for good score The outgoing course
d. d. q Iafrn, ending at the ninth hole with a
ts ig over a water hazard. The Incoming course
fro51,, 5,Se inside the other, with the home hole in
s-o,,Sa a the clubhouse. To guard against swamDv
jnxtsT1ra complete system OF drainage has been
fessiona1' al d cost OF 5000 BY the time the pro-
f1pionship IS held there in October the
and tilents now under way will be completed
deros1Ss ns efounds should prove well suited TO the
I1lahds OF professional play "
shin IN ina nah one hundred applications for member
b4lr aig new an COrtlandt Park Golf Club have
organi1s+ised iesed and the first formal meeting for
NsrjTorrS.'oat Is called for tonight the Hotel
low as sn5a. The resignation OF Thomas Bende-
way for flhtendent at Van Cortlandt opens the
hnts :. ne new club TO take active charge of the
Ten an5 Is proposed to reorganize the caddie svs-
VII A. -.asIilute weekly handcaps, both of which
well - ,ahueh 10 populaTize the links II all goes
FOR he enoed also to hold annual tournaments
hat one 11nifi?al ~ championship. 1t is understood
sutstl "a the promoters stands ready to present
sioaes us,,u ,uaphy cup provided the Park Commits
In ~. WI unoertake its from year to wear
Club - @re monthly handicap at the Nassau Country
They were: ''oay but few cards were turned in.
Class 4.
ID l. pa. Gross Handicap. Net
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