New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-21
IN GOLF WAKES
New Links Built and Old Ones
improved in South.
PRAISE GAME OF DUNCAN
Say British Professional Is
the Fastest of All
PLAYERS.

%, wave Of golf seems 10 be sweeping
throughout the Southern states. II course
construction and Improvement are to b"
taken as criterion. Those Northern
players who have already returned from
brief season in the South report that
many changes have been made In tn"
last year The new links Of tho Augusta
Country club have been completed and
are now IN use. Tho now cightccu-holc
circuit of the Capital city Country club,
near MONTGOMERY. covering about a hun
drod acres. is under construction. At Biz
mingham twelve holes have been put in
commission. and by the time the sum-
NOR season arrives the remainder prob
ably will Doe ready for use
Many now traps have been built on the
old course of the Augusta Country club
under the supervision Of Dave Ogivic.
the Morris County professional The
clubhouse has been enlarged materially
and improved. At Hampton Terrace. near
Augusta. the seventh hole has been
shortened 10 10 yards with a green well
trapped. The sixth has been drained and
made higher. The tenth. thirteenth. four
toonth. seventeenth and eighteenth holes
have been srNcncd Work has been un-
der way on this course since last sum
mcr.
The fair green AZ tho Camden Country
club has been Improved. after consld-
cradle trouble while the putting greens
have responded To special treatment.
Unusual attention Is being given the
which will be- the scene of the annual
Southern championship tournament In
June The second. third. fourth. seventh.
tenth and twelfth holes are being more
severely trapped. Al Nashville ana Hot
Springs Ark. the turf has been i'm
proved and several changes Of a minor
nature made.
British golf critics never seem To tire
Of talking about John J. McDcrmott. the
American open champion. whose visit
To Scotland and England last spring did
not mark an epoch IN golf, although the
doughty little homebrcd made good
showing in the subsequent French open
tourney. In fact. McDermotts finish at
La Boullie was responsible for favorable
, comment in In" British press, although
at the time be visited England many ar
ticlcs that gave the tone of another
myth exploded" appeared
However. the following is what writer
i'm a LONDON paper has to say.
"McDcrmott is really a good player,
though not quite good enough yet. |
think. to keep up with our best men over
I = 1
and slight. but he has "A fine. broad pair
of shoulders. and can hit the ball a fine,
long way. He gets his length however,
by using very long club and hitting
very hard with hook.
OF course. IT is far less difficult TO OBJ
tain expressions Of opinion as To George
Duncan. the British professional. who Will
make another visit 10 these shores in the
fall Two brief references to Duncan and
his methods are OF special interest just
now. One says that Duncan is the fast
est OF all players, professional or anna
teur. and consequently is "A great favor
tie with the crowd"
Another says: Duncan is a slashing
player. He walks up To his ball and
hits II to glory, and he puts as If he
liked IT,"
Another critic. after watching this play
er i'm a tournament. gave the following
anurecIation OF Duncan: There was only
one man on the first day who made the
golf look anything but difficult. and that
was Duncan. He did not make II look
easy. but he triumphed over II. Every
time | see Duncan play | become more
and more convinced that when he IL In
the mood and is not too anxious about
the result. he is the golfer Of the world.
Give him a fairly light heart. and he can
play a game Of astounding brilliancy. He
does Il. too, with such ridiculous ease as
to make almost all the others look abso-
lnfnlN absurd. "