Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
GOLF GOSSIP

What things the future may have in
store for us he would be brave man
that would prophecy but hitherto We
have never played either OF our cham.
piOnships OF golf on other than sea
side links. writes Horace Hutchinson
In the 1sondelIA. EseRing Mail. Ia
America. despite the vast extent OF
Its seaboard, there is nos a seaside
course, in the technical sense. In the
whole country. Nature, richly liber-
al TO them in many wayG, has denied
them that composition OF alluyial soil
which the Scot calls links" Their
courses are on the inland soil, in
many instances cut out Of forest and
jungle. d.. +. +,
Golf on Seaside Links. @
The American coming as a stranger
TO this country will find himself in
golfing conditions which are so far
strange TO him, but, so far, by no
means more difficult than those to
which he is accustomed. Golf on the
seaside links is an easier game, on
the whole, than inland. The ball by
the sea is never embedded in mud.
1t never lies as close to the ground
as ii may lie among the softer grass.
The links turf is crisp and the ball Is
upon rather than in the grass through
the green And though American
courses are OF this inland type, our
American invaders will not find them
selves in any unfamiliar species OF
trouble in our sand bunkers, for the
soil on that side supplies them. with
IL sIIr
them bunkers as deep and dire as the
cardinal" of Prestwick, almost "a
the Maiden" Of Sandwich herself.
The very fact that the courses in
America are often in the form OF ave-
nues hewn out of the woodland indt
Gates that the penalty they exact for
erratie driving is very severe. At St
Andrews, at Sandwich, il the grass il
not very high at Westward Ho! a
man may drive as wildly as he pleases
at many holes, and if he has slice
of good fortune he may lose nothing
by til but in America on almost every
course you may name except Myopia
and Garden City, where trees seldom
come in the way of hazards, the wild
driver finds himself in troubles as re-
IlDI Sei6SS dS lie tllSOultFlS III Lii'
country or il he goes wandering
among the pine stems in New Zeal
and or at St Georges Hill.
Wooden Clubs at Sandwich.
Moreover, our courses and especial.
ly Sandwich. on which the amateur
championship was played this year.
give many more long carries from the
tee than are provided for the Ameri
cans driving in their own land. There.
fore the necessity OF the wooden
clubs is the greater here than there.
other, more direct, differences in the
golf of the two lands
II has always been recognized that
the Americans are at a disadvantage
as compared with the players of Great
Britain in a high wind, because il ia
a condition with which they are SO
much less familiar. And in this re.
spect our country showed them just
the hospitality. gave them just the
welcome that they should desire most
keenly. when they came over for their
spell Of blustery. weather such as
Nav seldom fayOrs us withal
Nature. on the whole. has not done
practise work. for they came over into
quite SD much for golf in America as
IN our islands Art, on the other hand
and money have done more The
British visitor, playing for the FIRST
time On an American course, receives
something Of a shock Even before he
fares out on the course itself ne will