New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-27
british GOLFERS
crow APPREHENSIVE
psoard Invasion Led by
Travers and Ouimet
as Serious.
low TELLS OF HIS
TRIP TO OLD HOME
Not Champions and Played Over
Many Good Courses During
STAY Abroad.

rio. ,b-. British golfers as a whole ara
.a;,g the present invasion Of Ameri-
.r,atsurs as serious is the opinion or
80 low. the Baltusrol professional.
~ ys,vrned the other day on the Olym-
~ The English players. he says. have
r.o,ssale regard for the ability of Jerome
q r,svers. the four times winner or the
,.-lcsn title. and there also exists
90, desire 10 see Francis Ouimet
u,,b regard TO the probable outcome or
-..,e,s's effort In the amateur champion
~, tournament at Sandwich. Low called
..,ar,ion 10 the fact that ii would ne
r..sssary for him 10 get his ball up. IN
o,bAr words the low carries of the driV-
,ry iron which worked so well at GARDEN
r,,v will not do at Sandwich.
u,sn two days off the Irish coast Low
.sn, wireless message 10 Travers' VINO
,ss shedding in the opposite direction IN
II. message Low wished the Voyager
AL and received an acknowledgment
from the champion in twenty minutes
.rain referring 20 his visit at home the
,s,iv. OF Carnoustie said:
,rn,ber OF old friends. Several enjoyable
,ours were spent at the home OF j. II.
r.v,or present open champion of Great
britain. Il happened 20 be on sunday
yssn I reached his place, so we had no
golf
The champion showed me many of the
r,s and medals he had won during the
,st twenty years and talked freely about
his championship success at Hoylake last
YEAR. The part about that which pleased
rim most was his final round OF a, maze
in the rain and in the face of a gale or
wind There is a remote possibility OF
TAYLOR coming TO America for our open
championship next August.
while at Sunningdale was enter
tanned By Jack White, former open title
holder. The course. which was in excel
lent condition. remnded me somewhat OF
Baltusrol. I played around Sunningdale
with Norman Hunter, the well known
amateur. who later took me over in his
motor TO the new Swinley Forest course,
which compares favorably with Summing
dale. They have some wonderful holes
there. and as the subsoil is of a sandy,
loany nature the grass grows readily.
While the turf dries quickly, as at Garden
City.
From Swinley Forest we motored 10
the links at ST. Georges Hill. and I am
safe in saying that this is the last word in
gof course construction. A trip around
this ls-hole circuit, a series OF remark
able hills and dales showed two Of the
best short holes have seen anywhere.
THE club wanted something difficult,
and in fashioning these holes it surely
succeeded In fact. the greens were so
severely undulating that the committee
has already started 10 tone them down.
Some Of the new long holes I have seen
ere OF the elbow. or dogs leg, variety.
which are becoming more popular over
there. In some instances it is possible for
the long player TO take chances and cut
the corners.
Il like the Sunningdale and Swinley
Forest courses better than st Georges
Hill, which, imagine, because of its To-
cation, must be quite hot IN summer.
There has been little snow over there.
and when I left about ten days ago. they
were cutting the green's"
Low saws that Baltusrol members wish
Ing TO play tomorrow and Sunday Will
IND the full lS-hole course in commission.