The sun., 1909-05-09
FOREIGN AND HOME GOLFING
TRAVERS AND THE MUIR
FIELD COURSE.
Not Q Hard Test for the skilful Young
American Eighty Good Score Over
U-Tournament This Week al Fox
HiIls Should Draw Weil-Other Events.

HOT00Fn2meut IThS VSSh rOA
HiIls Should Draw Weil-Other Events
/ New Yorkers no longer wait for the
Metropolitan Golf Association champion
ship to begin the tournament circuit.
The Fox Hills Golf Club tournament
! this week and that ct the Nassau County
Country Club to follow It are new steps
in advance OF the championship. once
meant to open the golfing about Manhat-
tan each year, save only the tournaments
of the country clubs OF Lakewood and
Atlantic City. The early tournaments
have helped the game along. for now
that the Metropolitan Golf Association
Handicap list comes out In April there
[ Is no need for the clubs wishing to hold
tournaments to stand at attention unit the
parent body gives them the signal TO g.
ahead. -
! All signs presage a busting yeas in
American golfing, and when not congratu-
lating themselves over affairs at home
the players are busy forecasting what
Jerome Dunstan Trsvers will do In the
British championship at Muirfeld. now
only three weeks away. Reports are thnt
he has been doing we'll in the practice
! matches, also matches Of observation.
| and as Travers 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 1889 to be
| limited to scratch players, or plus. in their
clubs. Also at the annual meeting Of
! the twenty -four clubs having hand in
! the management, held each spring In con-
necton with the competition. the future
control Of the championship is to be voted
exclusively to the Royal and Ancient
Golf Club Of st. Andrews. " raises the
Royal and Ancient to the dignity Of a
national governing board such as the
United States Golf Associa ton, and as the
Scotch club has always been 50 regarded
in other countries il seems a wise policy
formally to establish the fact.
! Regarding Muirfeld it Is somewhat t
suggestive OF Myopia. Deal. Wheaton or
Garden City or any treeless. well arranged
strip OF golfing ground. In n word it
is more homelike and less jarring on the
preconceived ideas OF an American than
st. Andrews or Sandwich. The addition
of. fifteen acres, tribute to the distance
| OeVOuTnlk pOWcIU VI k1c Cotou pdii,
has made possible these figures:
Out . :o4 S72 ass $40 Is2 as a04 $50 sso-s oso
In.......,so 40 $40 go iso 20 400 500 @,-S.le,
This gives a total length Of s.2l2 yards,
The Honorable Company OF Edinburgh
Golfers owns the grounds and has CON-
pleted new clubhouse. The paucity
OF long holes and the wealth OF drive and
| iron holes would make the course level.
| ling affair to all but such q master Of
the second shot with an iron as Travers.
The Britishers 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 Eat headed aluminium
putter. As to scoring over the rearranged
| has looked into the matter recently for
Coli Illustrated, has made this conpila.
tion for the ordinary good amateur:
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Robert Maxwell, who is chiefly respon.
eible for the new bunkers. is the bright
particular chiel Of the course and by all
ship. He is on his game and IN April
won the gold medal at North Berwick
and like prize at Muirfeld on suocsssive e
days, each score by an odd coincidence
being 10. 40-S0. There was luck, or else
good thinking golf In the way he played
the last hole at Muirfield. The second
shot here must have plenty Of carry. as
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 dashed the
In Hinlock's opinion the conpctitors
who have the best chance TO win at Muir.
heid are Robert Maxwell. whq won the
titk there in 1908 and beat Horabe Hutch