The Detroit times., 1914-03-25
|TY COBB PLAYS
GOLF LIKE HE
DOES BASEBALL
Is of Too Impulsive and Rash
a Disposition To Make
Ideal Golfer
HIS DRIVING is HIS
BEST WORK ON LINKS
Goes Around Nine-Hole Course
At Gulfport With Jack Daray,
Professional In 81
From a STAFF Correspondent.

GULFPORT, Miss. March go
Probably every baseball fan knows
that Ty Cobb Ia a golfer and that he
is an enthusiast over the game. but
there are few who knows what sort
Of golf he plays.
The writer took an opportunity dur
ing Cobb's stay at Gulfport, TO follow
him around the nine-hole course at
! the Mississippi Coast Country club to
see what sort Of game the Peach
played 1t the royal and ancient sport.
Cobb ID q very fair golfer but no
wonder a. good golfers 90, although
he has advanced far more than most
men who have been ct the game for
only Q year or 20. Golf 10 . game
that requires years TO become prom
cient 1t. Also, the best men In the
came have their on days when their
mental or physical condition makes
them play away on form.
Cobb has q temperament that IL
much better for baseball than golf.
He Ia nervous and impulstvs. He
would rather take chance and get
= long shot out OF trap With bras
Gle, for instance, than play It out
more carefully and more surely with
10 mAshie.
However, that same iron determina-
ton that u shown In his baseball 10
very evident In his golf. He sets his
teeth hard together when he slices
the ball into the rough on . poor
drive In Just the same way that he
does when he swings hard at . base
ball and misses Il
Whan Cobb addresses the ball he
|0dGots about with his feet and he
dodges his Climb 1t the ball with his
Wr1sts much the same way ~ he
shakes his bat ct an opposing pitcher.
0ouo times be fidgets 20 much that
ne gsts disguated with himself and
releases himself from his stance and
starts Ill over again.
Cobb drives left-handed. He II 60
ing TO drive Tight-handed some day.
He has much better form swinging
|at the ball right-handed than LETT
handed. Uurthermore. for some rear
son or Other. left-handed golf players
are never any great shakes ct the
game. But Cobb II afraid to look q
The ban fron the right side for fear
that Il viii in1ure his batting eye.
He hits left-handed In baseball, -
|oyorybody knows. Most lefthanded
golfers are apt to slice the ball. show.
ing weakness In the right hand.
COBB often hooks the ball. showing
|tAs strength Of his right hand ~ COM
paspd 20 his left.
The day that the writer followed
Cobb around, the temperature was
very low. The men In the foursome
Ell had hard time keeping warm
Cobb had : big Detroit club sweater
most OF the time, although ct one time
he became disgusted with II. and
threw Il to his caddy. The day was
far from being any good for golnng.
Jack Daray. the professional ct the
club, who was one OF the players, was
six or seven strokes below his usual
game, 20 that Cobb should be given
| q considerable handicap on account
Of the raw weather.
The course has clay greens COW
cred with sand which are very hard
| to approach. The ball cannot be
| pitched onto the green as It can on q
grass green, but must be run up.
Furthermore, there was = stih wind
blowing which sometimes blew q ball
out Of its course as 1t was being
putted.
Bogey for the course is ~. Cobb
made II In 81. He would have had
under so on proper day. Daray, The
club professional, did II In IS. Man
ager Lynch OF the Great Southern no.
tel, and Archie Smith, auditor for
the Jones line Of houses. did 1t In the
same number.
| No. pines: 400 yards. Par s.
DOGGY 8, Cobb s. Cobb started out
fne. He teed his ball high but got
Z low drive with plenty Of carry, 60
ing IT'S yards. Cobb drives better
than he does anything else. He tried
. brassie next. got too much tuft and
had the misfortune Of rolling into the
first ditch. Playing four he used the
brassie again and went from ditch
Ito ditch. A neat jigger shot put him
up ON the green. He missed q putt
from the edge Of the green and then
holed ten-foot putt, making the
hole in eight.
| No. 2---Mounds: 4lO yards. Par =,
DOGGY s, Cobb 8. This hole il Tvs
lucky one for the drive at least. He