Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-23
GOLF GOSSIP
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Boreas has the United States open
golf champion lone. down" as the re-
suit of his first week in John Bulls
otherwise hospitable domain. Disem.
barking at Dover Monday evening.
Francis Ouimet carried his golf clubs
ashore and played on Tuesday over
the neighboring course at Deal.
On Wednesday he played over the
Princes Club course alongside of
Sandwich Bay and on Thursday over
the Royal st. George Golf Clubs
course. These three links are ada
cent on the east coast OF Kent.
You can say for me that the wind
can blow here from more directions at
once and with less provocation than
at any other place know Of" laugh
ingly declared Americas boy wonder
Of the links before saying au reVofr
to Kent's windswept dunes.
Play to Start May 10. =
you can also, tell the folks at home
that have been received at each
course with official courtesy. / am
coming back here on May Ito start
steady practice with the Royal St.
Georges course, on which the anna
teur championship contest is to be
played this year. The tournament
was to have begun on May 10, but
from what Ryder Richardson. secre-
tary of the st. George Club, told me,
l expect the play to begin on May Is,
because of the tremendous number Of
entries. -.
81 have not been here long enough
to receive any impressions, eoHtinu-
ed the youthful champion, except
that every one is kind to me and that
the turf on these three courses around
velvety l have ever played on any
where .~ ~.
1T is such contrast to our dry,
crisp courses back home. Except for
vagaries of wind, the climate seems
to be all right. | guess the seacoast
in spring is much the same ON both
sides of the Atlantic. -, 49,.
ouimet to Lose Weight.
"The Marquis OF Linlithgcw and
Lord: Charles Hope, his brother,
against whom Mr.. Lockwood and
played so bully match over the
Princes course on Wednesday,
thought was testing when told
them that / expect to train of ten
pounds before the amateur champion.
ship games. They are too polite to
say so, but guess they think I am
ais thin as rail already Fhey are
fine people, all right just as nnaf-
fected and nice as any one could be
The Marquis Is a good golfer but
not so good as Lord Hope, who drives
a very long ball and is very good on
the green's. Lord Hope and are
about the same age. He won the
amateur championship of France last
year. If they. have many amateurs
like him over here their champion
ship will be hard town. =
What has astonished the British
golfers who have seen Ouimet during
his three days practice on the East
Kent courses, all of which are within
a short motor jaunt from Dover, is
the readiness with which he dropped
into his game after winter of com
parative idleness at home.
Ice Hockey in Winter. +. IL.
His own explanation OF this Is that
he played a good deal of ice hockey
during the winter He says the wrist
action of shooting at the goal on ice
is the same as the wrist action he
uses in golf
Since his famous victory over Ray
and Vardon at Brookline which set
the golf world talking about him last
fail, the Woodlawn Club boy has laid
in a new stock of wooden tools, but
his cleek, his mashie, his "hammy,'
his wry-necked putter and his jigger
were part of his equipment on that
sensational occasion.
He does not use an iron driver nor
does he affect any patent varieties
of clubs. He has brought nine dozen
American balls and all his clubs were
made in America.
st. Georges Tough Course.
In playing cleek and iron shots
Ouimet is using longer swing than
is general among crack golfers and it
is likely to prove detrimental on GER
tain parts of the ST. Georges course,
which is a mixture of park courses
and mkempt sandhills. In my opin-
ion st. Georges, with it's clustering
wind, is the toughest course to be
found from Del Monte, California, to
the east coast of Kent.
Seeking amateur championship hon
Crs there will be a field Of $50 play
ers of good class, including a dozen
stars. In such a field the odds are
against the best of plyers, even one
of Ouimet's standing they are at least
20 to but good luck to him.