The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
PLAYERS OF. GOLF
IN BOGIE EVENT
Handicaps for Men and Women
Will Take Place on Monday
at the San Rafael Links

During the coming three days many
golfers Will be in evidence on the Pre-
sidio links. This afternoon there will
be handicap over eighteen holes
against bogie for the men of the San
Francisco Golf Club, first and second
/ prizes being offered.
On Washington's birthday there will
be qualifying round over eighteen
holes, medal play, with handicap, the
sixteen players who return the lowest
scores being entitled to enter the
match play. Each round of the match
play must be competed within four
days, and the two contestants who
reach the final round will receive
prizes.
The gayeties of the winter season
being now over, the ladies of the San
Francisco Golf Club will have more
time to devote to the links. Since the
beginning of the year the competitions
set down on the schedule have fallen
through for lack of entries, but on
( Tuesday morning, beginning at $50,
the members Of the Ladies' Annex will
hold a handicap over eighteen holes.
On Washington's birthday there Will
be competitions for men and women
on the links of the San Rafael Golf
Club. Beginning at 8 in the morning
! there viii be competition over
eighteen holes, with handicap, for the
men, and, beginning at 10, the ladies
viii hold handicap over nine holes
and putting contest.
IT seems likely that the home-and-
home matches that have been held for
some seasons past between teams of
men representing the San Francisco
and Oakland Golf clubs viii not take
place this season. The first Of these
thirty-siX-h matches, eighteen on
one of the courses and eighteen on the
other usually has taken place in De-
cember or not later than January,
while the second match has been
played early in April.
IL the team OF the same club won
both matches the interclub trophy be-
came the property OF the winning club,
but il each team won one match d de-
Gliding match, concluded III one day,
was played on neutral links. on the
two occasions on which a deciding
match has been necessary it has been
played on the Burlingame Country
Club course.
At present the Oakland golfers are
hardly in q position to enter into a
match, as their course at Adams Point
has been seriously curtailed and their
new country club course is not yet
ready for use. 1t might, however, be
pOSSiDlt " ctllfsC lOl Il IIldICll OF
number of matches, each taking up
one day, on d neutral couse and it is
to be hoped that this may be done.
Many Of the golf courses around
London. England have suffered great
ly from the long continued wet
weather, alternating with frosts. The
fair greens are SCARED in all directions
and the putting greens have been worn
almost bare Of grass. Mild weather
coming after a spell of frost is very
destructive TO golf course for then
the surface is softened, while the
ground beneath remains hard.
1t has been suggested that it would
be well Worth while under circum-
stances like these to abstain from play
for two or three days but it is doubt
full whether the members would con-
sent to do it.
No game, except billiards, tests the
nerve so severely as golf. Some play
ers become irritated at an inattentive
caddie or are put off their game by the
lucky chances that happen to their
opponent. An English golf writer sug-
gests that it is good plan firmly to
repress all outward marks of annoy
ance and so to strengthen the nerve
by the exercise of seIf-control. The
player who loses one hole should set
himself deliberately to win the next.