Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-15
AMERICAN GOLFERS
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 All signs Bresage busting. yea in American goifing, and when net con graduating themselves over az fairs at home the players are busy forecasting what Jerome D1nstsn Trayers will do in the British cham pionship at Muirheld. now only three weeks away. Reports are that he has been doing well in the practice matches Of observation. and as Tray CTS has a. better game than any other American of the day every one here expects to see him win.
 The championship. by the way is the first since it's institution in f2Ss 10 be limited to se~atch players. O. plas, in t.,eir clubs. Also at the al- nual meeting ot the tv'en,y-four clubs having hand in thu management held each spring in connection with the competition. the future contfoi exclusively 10 the Royal end Ancient Ap-b 1iGU tA ll. AHAiNN VIZ
 It raises the Royal and Ancient to the dignity of a national governing board. such as the United States Coli association and as the Scotch club has always been so regarded in oth- er countries, it seems q wise policy formally to establish the fact.
 Some Facts About Muirfield.
 Regarding Muirfield it is a treeless. well arranged strip of golfing ground In a word it is more homelike and less jarr!ns on the preconceived ideas Of an American than St. Andrews or Sandwich. The addition of a tract of fifteen, acres. tribute to the dis tanee deyouring powers of t5e rub Ler-cored ball, has made possible these figures:
 out-2O4. s72. s3s. 340, 462. 325, 3G4, 3s0. 330-3.050
 IN-3SO. 47o, 37o, 2s0. l5o 270, 4oo 900. 3S2-S,I62.
 This gives a total length of G,2l2 yards. The Honorable company of Edinburgh golfers owns the grounds and has completed :. new club house. The paucity of long holes would make the course a leyelling one to all but such a master the second shot with an iron as Trayers. The Brit ishers will learn that his style is as perfect as that of Harry Vardon and to their views fully as orthodox ex cept that he uses fat-headed alum mum butter. As to scoring over the rearranged Muirfield course. Frank Kinioch, who has looked into the mat ter recently for Golf Illustrated, has made this compilation for the ordi- nary good amateur:
 Out 3 f , 4 i-3S In - 55 55 54 3 5 1 5-41-79
 Robert Maxwell. who is chiefly re sponsible for the new bunkers. is the bright, particular chief of the course and by all odds the favorite to win the championship He is on his game and in April won the gold medal at North Berwick and lilSc prize at Muirfield on successive days, each score by an odd coincidence being io, 40-s0.
 There was luck, or else good think ing golf. in the way he played the last hole at Muirfield The second shot here must have plenty of carry, as three deep bunkers guard the green and there are new bunkers to the right and left. The wind was straight ahead and Maxwell slightly pulled his tee shot Into a heavy lie. Most men would have been glad to get out with an iron, but Maxwell took his driver and lashed the ball to within six feet of the hole.
 In Kinloch's opinion, the competi- tors who have the best chance to win at Muirfield are Robert Maxwell, who won the title there in 1903 and beat Horace Hutchinson in the final; John Ball, jr., H. H. Hilton, John Graham, jr., and J. E. Laidlay. He expresses willingness to take the five against the field. F.. A. Lassen, the title holder, is not mentioned. nor any of the young men. This fidelity to the old guard by the British critics would indicate there are no phenom- enal youngsters in sight and that they must rely on the veterans. On the many tests Jerome Travers has been through in this country he should hold his own with any of the maipstays of British golf.