The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-10
THE NEXT GAME I'm AUGUSTA.
The savannah Golf Club Games Re-
viewed in the March "GoIf"

The Savannah Golf Club Games Re-
viewed in the March Golf"
The Savannah Golf Club team had no
match game yesterday, but will leave
be played Saturday with the Bon Air
Club of that city. Negotiations for a
game with the local team, which the Off
GERS of the United States monitor Am
phitrite were making, have been broken
off, because some of the members of the
ships team have been transferred to
other ports.
Within the past week the Savannah
team has received invitations to a num-
Der of golf tournaments, among them that
at Magnolia Springs, Fla, which will be
March 11-12-13; and also that of the
Townsville Country Club, which will be
held March 2O-21-22. Ia is hardly likely
that any of these invitations will be ac-
cepted.
In the March number of Golf is the
following interesting resume of the games
that Savannah had played up to the time
that the article was written. 1t is by the
Colonel Cob j. II. Gillespie, who is
pleasantly remembered here through his
visit 40 Savannah with the Florida Coun-
try Club
Nineteen hundred and one has been
ushered in by some most interesting inter
club team matches-the best of all golf.
One of the first events was the Savannah
Golf Club VS.. the Darien Club in the be-
ginning of January at Darien. Teams
were four men aside. The putting green's
at Darien being the orthodox turf puzzled
the Savannah men who are all new disci-
Piles, and had seen only clay greens be-
fore. The result was adverse to Savan-
nah, but, on the whole, encouraged them,
as the players found that through the
green they could hold their own with the
Darienese. When we add that three of the
Darien men were veterans from Preswick,
Scotland, and good enough to be on any
club team (es their records show, Savan-
nah may feel comforted."
After telling of the misunderstanding
match, the writer tells of what he de-
scribes as the invasion of Savannah by
the Florida Country Club on Jan. 49,"
Savannah held high carnival on that
day, celebrating the birthday of Gen. Lee,
and the clubs played over a delightful
course round the Notifications made to
the south of the city in 1868. Whether
these Notifications were first-class in the
art of war or not, we do not know, but
we can certainly testify that, for hazards
in golf, they are unrivaled in the South.
The course is. a long nine-hole course,
mostly rolling land, the hazards are emil
nently fair (perhaps the cop-bunkers are
a little too copy, and the green delight
full
What made the contest most interesting
to us was that both teams, with the ex
ception of the fifth and last man on the
Florida side, were all American golfers
none of them had played for more than
four years, most of them about two
years. None of them had played out of
America, and only few Of them on
Northern greens.
again the axiom that a team should
have as little tail as possible was shown,
as the Florida captain put in that useful
and prominent position a man who had
played all his life. and who was opposed
by one who could only put enthusiasm
and hard practice against his years.
The Savannah men were little new at
the sort of match they had to play. They
have no particular weak points in their
game; their driving is straight and long
their putting very good, but perhaps, In
approaching, they were excelled. Time
and again the Florida Countrymen would
lay their long approaches dead"