Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-09
GOLF GOSSIP
By STEVEN ARMSTRONG.

BOSTON.-There is one point which
Mr. Hilton overlooked in his interest
ing remarks on how the conditions
will affect our players going aboard.
condition which found very trying
when first attempting to play on q
,, seaside links A condition. too. which
spect than before for the British play
ers: the successful combating, even
the use of. the wind
Those of us who have been trained
on an inland course and consider even
a breeze annoying, are very much at
sea, in more senses than one, when we
strive to play golf under what the av-
erage British seaside golfer would re-
gard as quite normal conditions. To
me one OF the greatest destinations Of
links by the sea is that because OF
the changing force and direction OF
the wind every hole offers infinite va
riety, seldom being the same two days
in succession. This affords the great
est training in playing shots and gaug-
ing the club needed. Only the golfer
of the interior, who plays for the first
time on a seaside links, or on his own
course during March winds Is in a
position. says the Sportsman, to real.
ize to the full the advantages enjoyed
by the individual who learned the
game on the coast and who is so luck
lily situated as to be able to pursue
it there at all times.
When the air Is tranquil, we may he
inclined to argue that golf is golf
wherever it may chance to be played,
and that there is no reason why first
class inland course should not be as
as good a training ground as sea-
side links. That the latter has the
merit Of an appearance Of naturalness
is a point which we freely admit. be-
cause we feel that we are bound to
score with the contention that a vast
tract of heather which denotes the
Droper carry for the tee-shot provides
Just a severe a test of strength and
skill as an artisticallv bizarre. shored-
up sandbill. Of impressive proportions.
The good inland green may not take
the eye like the st course. but It Is
lust as difficult in the nlaying and that
is the chief matter so far as its merits
as nursery are concerned. It Is
when traneniIlity gives way ito tprhn-
fence that the inhabitants of the him
terland APPRECIATES the deficiencies Of
the school in which he has been rear
ed Nesting in a valley or sheltered
Nby surrounding woodland, 1t has been
verv neaceful school; the only form Of
diseipline has been the necessity OF
hitting the ball into the air. making IL
fly straight. and allowing for the
length Of the run on fits descent. A
quiet. homely sort of life.
Then comes an outburst of frenzy on
part of the wind. The poor golfer OF
the interior stands appalled, at the sit
uation. Indeed, it is so utterly unlike
the normal that he experiences con-
siderable difficulty in standing at all.
he is buffeted first one way and then
the other, as he strives to address the
ball; he holds his club grimly, since
there seems to be a very fair chance
of its being whirled out of his control;
he makes his way to a teeing ground
higher and more exposed than the ma
iority and splutters, as he faces the
full fury of the blast, something to
the effect that This isn't golf; it's
a fight"
But the passage of that ordeal is
usually of short duration. Probably by
the next time he plays the conditions
are restored to exceeding serenity, and
for months together he does not come
to grips with another wind. He calls q
zephyr "a troublesome breeze" and
the memory of genuine commotion
in the atmosphere is as a recollection
average of as2. He made "A errors in