The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-10
DETROIT To Get
BIG GOLF GAMES
Amateur Championship Likely
to Go There.
HAS AN EXCELLENT COURSE

Vardon Declared Country Club Of De.
troit Had Best Links He Played on In
Standardization of Where Various
Championships Will Be Played Is to
Be Decided In January. ..f-~
The annual meeting OF the United |
States Golf association will be held at .
the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York,
Jan IL, and at that time the choice OF
the courses for the three national golf |
championships will be made.
As usual the championship in which |
the most interest Is conferred will be !
that for the amateur title, now held |
by Francis Ouimet, and golfers al !
ready are beginning to ask where the |
tourney will be sent next year. AL |
though the final choice lies with the |
delegates to the annual meeting of the !
United States Golf association and the
matter will not be decided definitely
until the actual votes are counted. the
indications are at present that the
Country club of Detroit has the best
kind Of chance to obtain the amateur
championship. \ year ago the Detroit
course was one of the three submitted
to the consideration of the delegates
and appears certain to gain big vote
at the coming meeting.
In the first place. it is the VESTS
turn 10 have the amateur tourney. In
four Of the last five years it has been
played i'm the east. and it has not been
sent west since 1912, when it was
played on the course of the Chicago
Golf club at Wheaton. The 1913 tour
ney was ut Garden City and this year
at Ekwauob so it clearly is the vests
turn.
Ever since Harry VardOn returned to
England after his visit to the United
States in 1918 and reported that the
Detroit course was the best that he
had seen iu this country the interest
of the golfng public in the Michigan
links has been keen. and every east
Crn golfer who visits Detroit is be
sieged upon his return with inquiries
about the Country club. Nardon's
praise has been the best possible in
dorscmeut, and golfers every where are
anxious TO hear about the course
The new Detroit course was laid out
for the NEST part by Harry $. Colt,
course architects No attempt was
made to complete the course when it
was first opened, the club adopting the
view that the details should he attend
cd to gradually and as Il result Of ex-
perience Instead Of theory. \ number
Of new traps have been installed dur
ing the past season in places where
they were found TO be necessary, AMI
more win be put in next year. ms the
club intends to continue its policy of
gradual development.
The total length of the course. which
is at Crosse Point farms. near De
troit. is GAP yards. and the measure
mcnts of the holes are as follows:
Quito. a. 45l 81 li5. 4l5. TO, 500
Ace. Total. 2,-39
In-3O7, 4si. $50. 3j7 Isl 3i3 80. as
1S5. Total S,l7S Grand total, G.H2
1t may be seen that there are tive
short holes going out. the 9th and the
seventh, and two more coming in, thC
fourteenth and the eighteenth. Tbs
saying that good course should hav,
four oue-shot holes is thus fulfilled
Par for the course is seventy-thre'
and is as follows:
Out ............ 5 4 3 4 , ) 4-37
In ........,.... 4 b A 3-St--l
The delegates who presented tn
merits of the course at the u. $. G.. A
meeting last January made most fa
yorable impression. and with the east
ern courses practically out of the run
ming, Detroit ought not to. have Il har,
Job to get the tourney. John $. Swee
ney of Detroit has been nominated TO
q place on the executive committee o
the U. S. G.. 4. and will be elected a
the meeting in January. His electio
will enable his club to keep in clos
touch with the q. S. q. y. in case tn
championship is sent there, and an
work done on the course in prepare
ton for the tourney will be in accor
| with the desires of the national assC
citation. The list of aspirants for th
y western championship was announce
Al recently, and Detroit has not aske
for the event, so it is probable that tn
4 club which Vardon praised 50 highl
intends to devote it's energies to ol
tanning the national tourney, and th
| efforts seem likely to meet with su
cess.
"A Metropolitan golfers, probably wi
| 4 have a chance to see the play in Il
n open championship Of 1918, for th'
N event is almost certain to so to Il
& New York district. 1t was last heI
on a metropolitan course in 1909 ar
since then has ,heen in Philadelphia
Chicago. Buffalo. Boston and Chical
again. SO It surely IS New Yorks tur
The women's tournament may 70
Boston. though there Is a chance tn
It may be sent west to encourage
bigger western entry than has been Il
case In the last few years