Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19
LOCAL GOLFERS
PLAN TOURNEY
PLAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIP TO.
BEGIN WEDNESDAY
Contest Will Be a Feature of the
Southern California Season.
Rules to Govern the
Contest

Those who find pleasure in ambing
over the green with Colonel Bogey will
have one of the most active weeks of
the season, beginning Wednesday
when play will commence on the links
of the Los Angeles Country club for
the amateur golf championship of
Southern California. Tuesday j. E.
Cook secretary of the Southern Cali
fornia Golf association, will receive all
the entries for the championship tour
nament and the drawing will also be
held for lots and partners.
The general public has been showing
an encouraging interest in the game
of late and there has been crowd on
the Country club links daily-rain or
shine. The championship tournament
promises to cause much interest and
enthusiasm throughout the southern
portion of the state and nearly every
follower of the gutta percha sphere
who is now in active service has de-
termined to enter and strive for final
honors.
Contestants will play a qualifying
round of thirty-siX holes, medal play.
The best sixteen scores shall then be
taken and the contestants making
these scores will then play eighteen
holes, match play, until but two COM
petitors remain, who shall then play
the final game consisting of thirty-six
holes, match play.
In case of an uneven number of en-
tries the executive committee has de-
cided to appoint a player to play with
the contestant drawing bye. In the
event of a tie or ties for the sixteenth
place in the medal play round the
contestants who have tied will continue
to play until one of their number gains
to be played out. In the event of a
tie in any match round those partici-
pating will continue to play until one
or the other shall have won a hole
when the match is to be considered
won.
1t will be seen that those who have
arranged for the championship tourna-
ment have made every possible prep
aration to meet any contingency that
may arise during the course of play.
Winner Gets Title
The winner of the tournament will
be considered the champion amateur
golfer of Southern California for the
year of 1905 and the trophy will be held
for the year by the club from which
the victor in an entry. The winner
will receive a gold medal, the second
q silver medal and the third and fourth
bronze medals. All of the crack Los
Angeles knights of the niblick intend
to enter the contest and from the
showing of the local men in the match
games with the Pasadena enthusiasts
it is not unlikely that the trophy will
remain in Los Angeles.
Play in the tournament will begin
Wednesday, February %. at a. m
medal play the first eighteen holes; /
D. m., the second eighteen holes, medal
play; Thursday, February 23, at 8 a.
M, the first eighteen holes, match
play; p. m., the second eighteen holes,
match play, and each succeeding day
at same time and place until the match
is decided
The allied and associate members of
the Southern California Golf associa-
tion includes the Pasadena Country
club, the Redlands Country club, San
Diego Country club, Hemet Golf club,
| Santa Catalina Island Golf club, Coro-
nado Golf club, Santa Barbara Country
| club, Ensenada Golf club, Raymond
| Golf club and Green Golf club at Pasa-
dena, and the Los Angeles Country
club. AS there are players i'm nearly
all these clubs who have gone over the
course at Los Angeles at trifle over
Bogey, the entry for the championship
should be representative of all these
clubs and the number entered from the
Los Angeles club will probably be the
largest of any contest of the year.