The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
ODD NOTIONS OF GOLFERS.
SOME SUPERSTITIONS HELD BY
PLAYERS or THE OLD GAME.
Bad Luck to Use Another's Tee-Two Up
With Five 10 Play Regarded ~ . HoodoO
Women Who Garry HOrseshoes and
Fortune Tefnpters-EFect Of the Draw.


With Five TO Play Regarded ~ Hoodoo
Women VINO Garry HOrseshoes and
Fortune Te,npters-ERect Of the Draw.
: Golfers are not superstitious IA class,
but many players have their odd notions as
to what may bring to them good luck or bad
hi q match or at tournament. The luck
Of the draw ia q phrase known wherever
the game Is played, but this concerns a
fact and not an uncertainty that may be
Influenced by good or evil agencies without
the match. When the names have been
drawn by lot for the pairings in the first
match play round. as winners play winners
In the succeeding rounds. there 10 at once
q general analysis Of tho strength OF the
players in the two halves. the survivors
of which must inevitably meet in the final.
To bs In the easy ond'-that Is, In the half
which contains the weaker set. Is to be
favored by "the luck Of the draw
cracker jack Who finds himself in this divi-
sion may well smile in contentment, for as
he romps along in dalliance toward the final
a the potential winners In the other division
arc battling together with the fury Of the
Kilkenny cats, and the survivor, whoever
he may he, Is very apt to be overgolfed
for the decisive match, But there is moth
ing superstitious in the belief that 1t is
'Good to be favored by "the luck OF the
drew It is a GOLD, hard fact.
There are two common superstitions re-
sarding the tees; not the teeing ground
|,proper, but the use OF the pinch Of sand
made with the fingers from which the ball
Ia, played. 1t often happens that when a
Co. ov-l 81, hn Gv,Io tao
ready for him from which the preceding
driver-possibly his opponent-may have
ssruck the ball so clearly that the little
hummock of sand has not been disturbed
II Is less trouble to place the ball on the
ready made tee than to mold one. but
very few yield to the temptation. To do
NO means bad luck and not one player In
hfty will on this account use tee left by
Another.
When a ball has been teed up and the
player has taken his stance to address it,
Il often OCCURS that the ball will topple of
the mound. The player must replace the ball
or call on his caddie to do 30, before he can
drive. The topping of is usually regarded
~ . hoodoo and SIGN that the drive
will be spoiled, but there is minority to
assert that the accident brings good luck
II is q mishap that seldom occurs to pro-
fessional golfer, for the canny brethren only
made fat tee on which the ball rests as
!. firmly as the keystone in an arch. The
lamateurs who have the teeing high habit
ard who place the ball on tower which
Beans like the famous one Of Pisa form the
maj orty Of those who deem the topping
1o6 TO be bad luck.
v In the semi-fnal Of the Apawamis Club
tournament r. p. Lapham stood Cup with
10 play with jerome d. Travers, but the
after saved the match on the home green.
1T will be q close finish,' remarked
indlay Douglas, the former amateur
hampton, at the twelfth green, 'but II
here were Ave more instead Of six holes
% be played I would mark Laphsm as a
sure loser"
In explanation Douglas said that there
was . Scottish superstition that up with
70 play never won out. II Is q hoodoo
neerly as well known here. OF the same
erdsr 10 the remark often quoted that tho