The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
EUcLEtVoop GEue RoUSE.

Amateur golfers of all clubs in the United
States Golf Associ ition have the right to
sta IT in the twelfth national championship
this week at the Englewood Golf Club,
provided they have anteed s. as entry fee,
and foreign players have the right to play
by sreci1l invitation, which will let in any
Canadians who come on.
All championships seem easier to win
when at home than after arriving on the
scene, and, as distance gives a special en-
chantment to such golfing views, there Is
always a representative entry from the
out of-the-way places-California, Oregon,
the far South and the northern border.
But whatever their hopes, those from the
faraway links always say they are playing
for the experience.
Yet the outsiders are only the fringe On
the cloth. The majority Of the field and
the section almost certain to furnish the
winner come from the clubs grouped about
the large cities.
There were 129 starters last year at the
Chicago Golf Club in the national and 1888
when it was last at a New York links, at
Baltusrol. In 1904. As there are $40 clubs
In the United States Golf Association,
with the membership ranging from 100 to
1000, ii is manifest that the picked men
only play for the national title. There will
be an unusually large field at Englewood,
but the record entry of lee in the British
amateur championship last month. will
hardly be surpassed.
The West made a great showing in the
last amateur championship, for two of the
e~emi-fnalists were Chioagoans, one from
Toledo and one from Pittsburg. This good
luck has helped the entry of Westerners,
and Of course the flower OF Eastern golfng
will appear. ,..,.
A curious circumstance is that the Engle-
wood links will be a new course for the
championship, for 1t has been in play only
since last Monday as now arranged. When
the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association
held its championship there last month
the course was the same as played last year
and there was complaint over the slowness
OF the greens. The latter trouble was due
to sparing the grass to have the green's
perfect this week.
Three new holes nave been made since
the spring on the advice Of the United States
Golf Association and by throwing the greens
open the unique record is made Of a new
links for q national competition. But the
new green's will be as ripe and as
though in play for many seasons, for the
holes have been made by Encouragement
on old turf.
The changes are the merging Of the old
sixth and seventh into a new seventh hole
and the splitting up Of the old eighteenth OF
500 yards int two holes. This was to do
away with the road as a hazard that pun
ished a good second shot. The seventeenth
green Is therefore enirely new and it is a
fine circle of turf within a ring bunker, so
that it is called the circus green.
The seventh and eighteenth are the old
greens played from new distances. The
aggregate for the round is not materially
changed. 1t is 6,203 yards, and while OF
about the same. playing length actually
as Baltusrol and Apawamis, by the actual
total Of yards it is only exceeded by two
links in the Metropolitan Golf Association,
Garden City, e,444 yards, and Deal, e,255
yards.
Englewood's length is nearer to st. An
drews than any Of the fine British cham
pionship. links. They are, with the records,
st. Andre VS. e,8ss. "A; Hoylake, 6,s55.7l;
Sandwich, . 8,s74.es; Prestwiok. $500. 70;
Muirfield, 5.s37.72 As the records show,
hazards and not mere length is what makes
a course difficult to score u.
In diversity of distances Englewood COM
pares very favorably with st. Andrews.
DISTANCES aoISo OUT.
S, Andrews. SIS "a si ass SIS SIS $50 isS sis-s'iio