The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-26
GOLF INNOVATION AT DYKER.
a THREE BALL COMPETITION
gNDER NEW CONDITIONS.
Paint Against Gate Money on English
Links -Tlmperley Club 10 Charge .
Fee for the F0ursome Final-JerOme
Travers In Two Events nc M0ntclair.

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Trayers In rive Events At MSntclslr.
limo vations In golf competitions. especially
the kiokers' handbags that tend TO eliminate
the FIRST principle Of good play. viz. steady.
persistent effort toward low scoring. are
seldom worth serious consideration. Some
thing entirely new. however,. will be tried at
the Dyker Meadow Golf Club on Thanks
giving Day that promises well. As with
bogeY match plays IL is a practical method of
playing match play In one afternoon.
f.. j. Phillips. h says he got the idea from
an English club, is the sponsor for the new
tournament. 1t is called a three ball match
play competition. beinSa match play handi-
cap in which all the contestants play eighteen
holes in three ball matches. The scoring Is
by points. not holes. and ak points are APP
portioned among the players in each three
some at each hole.
The players In each team use against each
other their respective match play handicaps.
The winner Of Q hole scores four points. the
second best two. and the third best is white
washed. When one player wins and the
other two halve he scores four points and
the others one point each. II two halve the
hole they score three points each. the other
one nothing. When all three halve the scor-
ing N two points each. The player having
the largest number OF points for the eighteen
holes Is the winner.
There will be an eighteen hole DOGGY handi-
cap on THANKSGIVING Day at the new Dun
woodie Country Club, and. weather per-
hitting. similsrl contests on all the older
links hereab0uts. The dinner of the Brook
iyn and Forest Park Golf clubs will be held
at the Assembly. Brooklyn, on December /.
Golf is the one game in which there is no
thought Of the gate money. although pro-
kesSional exhibition matches for money have
been PLAYED q few times in this country. The
evil IL spreading in Great Britain. where a
newspaper makes this commment on the forth;
that the Timperley Club is TO charge 2s. Cd
OF gate money to non-members OF the club
ing foursome between Braid and Nardon
and Duncan and Mayo Is certainly not cal
eplated to stIIuIste puDl SicS ehs ssSms fate ID
TO. gather round IL the worst features and
most DANGEROUS tendencies tina threaten the
surplus money. after paying expenses, is to
be given to local charities and Is not TO 90
| into the Golfers Of the club, but the, gate"
which this match already. bears so strongly,
is TO be emphasized to the extent that the
n nsSpsp'S With nun the match 4f9nded out Of the
half crowns taken al the gate. from TINS
! 10 claiming the whole Of the money demanded
from the public for admittance, is bnta single
short step. The Ttmperley Club Is setting
up once more a pre%etlsnt which less scrnp-
The pernicious effects 81 gate money on
snort are to he seen every where, and need
M pointing out afresh. 1t has always been
one Of the Clories of golf that in champion
ships. matches and tournaments the golnng
public, who are mostly members of other
clubs, have been welcomed by tue !ocal club
to see the play without any charge, and It il
to this generous and sportsmanlike spirit
az much, perhaps, as TO anythlng else that
rthe great ana increasing popularity of COLL
Is due. The III advised action OF the Timper-
lev Club can only have The effect OF diminish
ing whatever interest may be left in the tina
stage of this match and oereducing stlll further
4 the number of SPECTATOR
There were two spirited matches AT the
Montclair Golf Club Yesterday in which anna
tours and professionals figured. In the
morning the professionals Jack Hobers and
George ,Thomson. respectively o. Lngle-
wood and Roseville, play ed Jerome D. Travers,
the Metropolitan Golf Association cham
pion. and S. n. LoCkett. The pros conceded
one bisaue and won by > up and to play.
There were some patches OF soft ground,
where the mud adhered 20 the ball. which
spoiled many shots and made record scoring
an impossibiiity, Yet the two professionals
who came 10 this country from North Ber-
wick, did NOT do 50 badly, The cards were.
Thomson, 80; Hooens. 81; Lockett. ~. and
Travers, ~.
After luncheon LOckett and Thomson
Joined forces to play a return match with
Trayers and Marshall Whltlatch. In the
early summer LocEett and Thomson won by
| up, M Rosevilie. but vest rday the Mont
clair pair won by = NJ and l TO play, In the
side matches LoCkett had Whitlatch / down
and Travers was , up over Thomson