The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-22
~ JOHN q.

h are the best Ave eo,f courvss
IN Amersoaf That was tAs question
mich Wa asked me the other day By q
very veil read golfer and Q ins player,
1 nAd often been thinking the vsry sams
question IN the last month or 20 and II
wa With little hesitation that I said :
'Tnsrs are no i've bsa ooursea Thsrs
are two bsst courses and than Others
whioh can r1shtfully b called IN q de
enct second ciAD By themselves"
I suppose that I rather shooked my
friend BY this strange answer. but II 70
the best which I have been able to fash.
Ion aftsr much thought on the topic I
would place the National ana Myop,a In
. o'ao BY Themselves. ths former q
little OF in the lead and than hesitate
to classify all the other proudnsns ,inAs
In any definite order. Pine Valley near
Philadelphia and the LIDO oourvs on
Long Island promise to furnish two morn
OF he vary frst GLASS. No man an -
with certainty that Baltusrol. Garden
City. Mayneid, Detroit, Bon Air. Bne
Bum. Brookline. Esssx County. MaA
EkwAnok and one or two others can b
oiasssd IN . definite order and % placs
them It is impossible because Of the
varying elements which enter into the
cho'oe' One has Exceptionally nns bunk
srs as at Garden City and Brookiine,
another has Grand Ueens such a. n
Ekwanok Hnd Bras Burn: distance eets
It's enchantment from ne Detroit links,
while Mayfieid and Essex County have
general all around excellence With
defects as we'll in moderation.
A. for Bon Air. I do mo- know a -.
personally. Just what causes its ohotcs
as a member OF a class with tho above
courses, bN I have included a.
because OF the fine reports which I have
heard from many professionals who have
played over It. Tom Mcnamara on the
day that he arrived At Detroit and had
seen he course said hat Ron Air far
surpassed the Western links in difficulty.
Moreover he said that when he sfd
other professionals went down there for
the nrst time they were surprised Whom
the resident professional said that ne
would wager IS with eanh Of the i've
that they could 10 break so on the
round. Needless TO say the professionals
took UP the bets and doubled and tnpled
them when they could and Of oil tho iot
only one. Mcnamara, who holed a twenty
foot putt on tho last hole and made a
~. won the wager. Two of the players
picked UP before they had gone half
way. The coursA ! feel sure. merits ali
the good things which fhve bean said
o II. The green's have the finest
grass Imaginable and the bunkerinE Is
Of the finest typA
Tho National Links has beem written
shout untl each hole u fairly well
known to h average guafer. Tho plac-
tne Of each ahnt IL the treat demand
there as we'll an several Other true rolf
Ing requisites which I hoe to speak
about in another article. Myupia, how
ever. has BEEN neelected Of late yeav
no important tournaments have
been hold there, perhaps. and yet stiil
In the minds of a vast number Of golfers
looms UP as being of superior class
II the request Is made &c try to name
IN one word the attribute which makes
Myopia OF outstanding importance and
excellence ! would give the word, va
riety. When you can play over a course
day after day and never rot tired of II
Il each time be forced 70 play many
varied kinds OF golf shots. then It Is a
real championship golf linka That Is
essentially the CAGE with Myopia From
tho very first hole TO the very last ap-
proach shot on the eighteenth the player
who takes the play seriously must for
ever be thinking Of che trouble which
must be avoided MyUpia has that quad
Wy OF forcing upon one a feeling ot