Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1906-10-02
AM CALL GOLF
A COSTLY GAME
is No More EXpsnsiV,
Than Any ether
Sport

A discussion has been in progress abou. |
he cost Of golf which is generally SGT
lown as being too expensive says the
London Referee Probably it is; most
.hings arc to the man to whom money
inatters-that is 10 say TO about 80 81
per cent. Of the population. But in real
ity golf costs pretty nearly what one
chooses 10 pay for it, supposing of course
that people do not assume that it is to
be had for nothing. There was very
sensible article on the subject in the
Evening News the other day-you say
day" when you are talking Of an even
ing paper which publishes a fourth -edi-
lion at 1880 a. m, the previous three edi-
tions always being snapped up by the
early mill1men, perhaps-or else what does
become OF them?
The writer divides golfers into four
classes and estimates their approximate
outlay. Those who do It cheaper and
live in Edinburg have twopennyworth
Of tram to the Braid Hills, and pay two
pence more for a round. They must have
clubs and a few golf balls. these (and
vocabulary to suit the occasion when
they get into a bunker being essentials.
In the next category comes the eco
nomical golfer, but in making out his
expenses 1t is scarcely fair grievance
that ''he cannot do without lunch at the
club and will hardly be able to escape a
charge Of two shillings under this head
Let us imagine that he had not gone to
tho club to play golf Would he have
starved2 Probably he would have eaten
some lunch, and how much less than
two shillings would 1t have cost him7
Most men have some amusement, and
when our critic comes to the third divi-
sion of the golfers-the men who do
themselves fairly WELL with little stint
the question arises how they would spend
their money if they did not spend it on
this game
They are supposed TO pay an entrance
fee of five guineas to their club and an
other five guineas year subscription.
They probably belong to two clubs, pos.
siby to a third.
There are railway fares, the best ball.
&C two shlllings EACH caddie half a
crown, food mot, as just remarked. ex-
clusively a golf item), a pretty taste IL
brassies and drivers. entrasces at mas
BED 10 some sweepstakes-these mount
up, but as for them and an occasiona
bet Of a few shillings it is not everyone
who invariably loses. Some one wins.
Altogether our author thinks that gol
viii cost this sort Of player $50 pounds
year. Now, II he were to play cricke
strictly as an amateur, would 1t cost hiu
very much less to go about the coun.r'
ana stay at good hotels? Suppose he be
longs to a boat or n mild yacht clur
VIII anyone pay his fares, give him
rice new ship" and provide the lunc
and dinner which are marked off as eN
penses inseparable from golf?
Say that he goes I'm for lawn-tenni'
with Homburg in August Monte Carlo j
January. perhaps-this is not done fo
nothing; or shall we suggest that hi
amusement lies I'm racing and that he
a member Of Sandown, Kempton. Hurs
Gatwick and Lingneld? The inevitab
cabs and lunch still have to be met. an
he win probably try to pay his QUITO
pocket expenses by backing winner
which I have been told is sometimes
"a deceptive occupation.
II The fourth class Of golfers are those Wi
" have five or six clubs, keep their ON
5" professionals, and take a place IN Il
e. country in order that they may lay o.
IL private links. To such people money