The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
GOLF TOURNAMENT
 AT MONTGOMERY OPENS TODAY

Montgomery, June 1S.-(Special)- )-Be- tween seyenty-fve and one hundred of the best known golf players in the south will come to Montgomery next week to participate in the annual invitation tour nament to be held by the Montgomery Country club. The tournament will open on next Thursday, June %, when the qualifying round will be played, and the matches will be played on Friday and Saturday.
 The event this year promises to be the most notable in golf that has ever taken place in Alabama With links second to none in the south the golf tourna- ments at the Montgomery Country club have always proven of unusual interest to local and state players, but the match this year is likely to eclipse anything that has ever been held in this state.
 Golfers from Birmingham. Atlanta, Mo- bile, Pensacola, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans and other southern cities have signifled their intention of participating in the tournament, and the prominence of many of the players offers sufficient prom ise of some of the best and closest matches that have ever been pulled off in the south
 Among the players who will come to Montgomery to contest for the trophies that the local club will give are F. G. Byrd of Atlanta, southern champion last year; George Oliver of Birmingham, run ner-up in the southern championship match. and others we'll known in the goling world It is anticipated that 40 players will come from Birmingham, as approximately this number has signied their intention of participating in the match In addition to the strong Bir- mingham contingent, six well-known players from Nashville will take part in the tournament, five from Memphis, and representatives from the leading golf clubs in the southern states.
 What promises probably the fastest play that has taken place in the south in years, and probably in the history of southern golf, Is the fact that there are only 64 to qualify for the four flights With seventy-hve strong golf players visiting the Montgomery Country club from various of the best known golf associations in the south, and with the strong local team, it is anticipated that the qualifying round will be most in teresting feature, particularly as from thirty to forty players will probably be eliminated on the first day of the tourna- ment.
 There are to be four flights of sixteen players each, the matches to be played off on Friday and Saturday. Trophies will go to the final winners of the match plays and to the runners-up in the tourna- ment s
 Local golfers are basing strong hopes on J. R. Sayre, who for many. years has been the strongest player of the Mont gomery Country club; John Brame, a close second to Cayre; Emmet Seibels. Temple seibels. Davis Stakeley, Hudson Norton, c. A. Petrie and others. One of the best match players of the local club will not be able to participate in the tournament, owing to sickness. This Is Dr. Olin Kirkland, who is regarded as one of the strongest match players of the local club
 Members of the Montgomery Country club feel unusual pride in their golf inks Under the expert management ot Jonn M Inglis, the golf course has been made second to none in the entire south. ana the testimony of many who have visited the local club has been to the effect that there are few courses in the country that are any better.
 | The links occupy a stretch of slightly l rolling country, covered with grass, and | contains a number of very fine natural | hazards. What nature has not provided, | the ingenuity of John Inglis has to a great extent supplied, the result being | that the 18-hole course is entitled to be | recognized as one of the best that has ever been played over In inc whole couh- try. | Players from other cities have com 1 mented on the excellence of the course 1 the putting greens on the local iinks having received the most unstlnted praise 1 Planted in Bermuda grass most or the putting greens are smooth and level. | few of them being slightly rolling and ] li'o,lnlatine in accordance with the re-
 oulrements of links of the first rank.