Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-04
GOLF IS LIKE
BUSINESS, SAYS
Chick EVANS
Famous Player Finds Similarity
Between Life on Peachtree
ana That on Best Links.
Bv Chick Evans.

y NE Of the most popular links in
the world is a complex one of
many courses and holes known
&c The Atlanta Business Links.
There are times when club memb ,r
If This great club is only able to play
q few shots here and there, but a
bona fde member never loses his
enthusiasm. Sometimes the course
Is rendered unplayable by deluge
NJ hard times and sometimes the
privilege q playing Is lost by some
sort of personal incapacity. During
good seasons, when the very atmos
nbera is full of the game, the course
e badly congested, but good players
do not mind competition, they know
that the poor golfers must soon drop
out.
Work is really play If you do it
rightly and business is a big tourna-
ment that lasts over a long period
of time on the business course
there is not a member who has not
been beaten time and again, for there
are difficulties of all sorts and only
experience and straight, true shots
will win out
THERE are many celebrated golf
/ ers playing this big course, hut
there seems to be general opinion
that the successful players on the in
ferlor links of the country clubs can
not succeed on the NOR. difficult
CITY course No one of course has all
the shots needed to play the diff
cult business game and that is equal
ly true of the great golf players.
There seems to be no good reason,
however why the successful player
on the green links cannot succeed on
the smoky gray ones. The player on
the green outdoor course has learned
\ the necessity of accuracy above all
things, and accuracy OF statement is
one Of the absolute essentials of bus
mess. for if a man hopes to succeed
he must put his proposition straight
home without either hook or slice.
4 THE holes Of the business course
Of great variety. The player fire.
Quently gets off his tee shot in fine
shape. but when he attempts his APP
preach he suffers a mental stymie
and is afraid to go after his shot.
There are all manner of approaches
some bold some meek, some
thoughtful some confident - and
luckily the player who is master Of
the kind that presents itself at the
proper momen..
There are always a great many
rrA'f ,T-r Il
4 when ii is reached the difficulty Of
4 boiling out is Just as apparent as on
the little green at the country club.
4 The player tries all sorts of sight and
undulations and humps. If he loses
4 his grip he must overlap; he must
4 take firm stance and putt as con-
4 vtncingiy as possible. / have some
4 times thought that the joy of holing
i out on the business green must be
Il greater than any other, and the flu
lure Of course comes harder. Many
and many times it was found that
ones tee shot was fine, the approach
4 and chip shot good, but the putting
] cost the game.
4 HERE are good and bad players
on the business links. and the
greenkeeper is more important per
i son than on the country course,
Many Of the holes cross and pits are
A everywhere; encouragement abound
and the cup is often trimmed and the
game Is never won until the last putt
is hoed.
The midiron is a good club for the
course, the brassie hardly advisable
and the Tiger to be cautiously used.
The player who would be success
on this greater links must be on the
square; he must strive constantly for
accuracy Of stroke and hope always
Tor the luck that frequently blesses
me man who works hard and with a
definite aim,