El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-18
LIE al Of effectiveIy pIaying a

-HE art of effectively playing a
I sound and useful stroke out of
Il a bunker or other hazard is pos
| sessed by comparatively few amateurs
I This seems strange because all have
] passed through the durfer period, where
I 10 play a single hole without being
! called upon to make some such shot IS
practice has not, however, taught the
! lesson, because in duffer days We do
not have sufficient Intelligence regard
! ing the finer points of the game TO De
rive full value from our experience we
know that we hit at the ball. and
! occasionally get it out for what seems
like a brilliant recovery. But the
chances are that We colud not ouph-
cate the result once in 10 times
For the beginner who has not yet &C
quired sufficient skill to beat card
of one hundred for round the best ad-
vice is rather to be sure of getting out
on the fair green than to try for dis
lance or any definite point In dong
this, however, try TO remember exactly
what happens on the stroke and store
il away carefully in the mind for REL
erence next time you are called upon
to make a similar effort In TINS way
you can derive benefits from your early
practice, which otherwise would go Tor
little or nothing
The very best of players find them
selves in tough spots every now and
then and are compelled 10 use 1lne
grade of judgment in order to get out
of their predlcament without seriously
marring their card or losing a hole
They have the advantage over the
duffer in a number Of ways
They have been in similar spots be-
fore, and know what club to use ana
what strength they can effectively ap-
ply on the stroke without danger OF
getting into a still worse mess TneY
can quickly decide whether to play
backwards, Sideways, or toward the
hole, and then by a slight shift II the
means of getting to the green some
times go down for a half with DOGGY,
and at worst only lose a single stroke
for their wild shot
In the open championship of the
United States, played at BaltuSrOI some
years ago. one of the leading profess
hooked his ball into the clump OF
woods He was a man who had repu-
tation to sustain, and would not play
backwards or sideways, so kept hit
ting first one tree and then another.
and so took seven or eight strokes q
forget which, on par three hole, on
the theory that a pro never plays
backwards" The hole in question IS
one of about $50 yards along a side hill
A simple stroke toward the fair green
and ne could have scored four, sew
eral strokes under what he actually
got
In the ualifqying round of the ANA
teur championship several years ago
at Garden City, Marshall Whitlatch,
one OF the most promising payers IL
the metropolitan district. met with
grave misfortune in playing the 100
yard 18th hole. The drive is over
pond to a large rolling fair green with
two deep traps cut in its face and others
at the back of it. Whitlatch drove into
one of the traps. then chopped out into
another until he had consumed 10
strokes on the hole, which prevented
him from qualifying In playing the
same hole in the qualifying round Je-
rome D. Travers reached the depths of
one of these traps from the tee He
calmly picked out under penalty of two
strokes. laid his fourth dead, and went
down in a five.
Perhaps a slight indication Of the