New-York tribune., 1908-07-30
OPEN GOLF CONDITIONS.
Large Field Likely at Myoma for
the august Tonrr,nnent.

Programmes are out for the fourteenth open
Championship tournament of the United States Golf
Association TO be held over the links of the
Myopa Hunt Club. Hamilton, Mass on August
q and IS As usual. the competition will consist of
seventytwo holes of medal play, thirty-six holes
each day. but contestants whose scores at the finish
of Thursdays play exceed by fifteen strokes the
tenth place. will not be allowed continue in the
competition play in Fridays rounds
The United States Golf Association has offered
$500 to be divided into moneys as follows: First
$500; second. $3.50: third 500; fourth $780, fifth SO;
SIXTH $50; seventh. $50; eighth $40 ninth $780, and
tenth. $50
The winner of the championship will also receive
gold medal and the event OF an amateur fin
ishng in the money he will receive the equivalent
in plate All entries subject the approval of
the executive committee OF the association and any
entry may be rejected by the committee. Any
player who fails to appear at the tee within fifteen
minutes of the time he is called shall be disquai-
fed. unless satisfactory to the officials in
charge of the tournament be given.
The entrance fee is IS and must be received by
W. Fellowes Morgan. secretary of the association
at Arch s. Brooklyn Bridge not later than p. m.
Wednesday, August 19
As may be readily understood this competition
each year resolves itself into struggle for
prernacy between the leading professionals. Occa-
sionally amateur breaks through and finishes in
the money. but with the exception of the 1902
tournament at Garden City, when Walter J. Travis
of the home club tied for second place. the profess
siona monopoly has never been seriously threat
ened
Alec Ross. of Brae Burn, is the present title
holder In the tournament year ago the
Philadelphia Cricket Club links Ross won, with a
seventy-two-hole score Of 3O2- The first time the
open championship held at Myopia in
1898, and that occasion also marked change in
the conditions from thirty-six to seventy-two
holes. Fred Herd led in that competition with
32S. The next time the ''pros" gathered at Myopa
in 1901. when viii Anderson, who had been
knocking at the door for several years, with
score of 3S5. On that occasion the adverse
weather conditions mainly responsible for
the high totals.
When the field again visited the Hamilton course,
in 1895. the redoubtable Anderson proved equal to
the task by leading the field of seventy-eght start
ers, with a of 3l4 That made Anderson's
fourth and last winning OF the title, and there
those who already predicting that he will
a lot of beating this, his fourth. visit to My
opia. the last two years he has been the
employ of the Onwentsia Club at a high salary.
There is practically no doubt that the pro
fessionals will turn out in force, the strained
relations between them and the Myopia Club Off
cials have been patched up. For the last few
championships there have been in the neighbor-
hood of eighty starters each year. At Garden City
water mark. At the Onwentsia Club in 1906 Alec
Smith won. with a record score of 295
Thus far the home-bred professionals like the
amateurs. have cut little figure. but the ranks
of the former constantly increasing, It seems
only a question of time when American will
succeed in having his inscribed on the tablet
of fame.
The list of past open championship winners fol-
lows: