The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-27
BALTUSROL COURSE
WILL VEX VISITORS
Vardon, Ray. Duncan, Mayo
and Others Will Find SITTER
Test Than Before.
BEING PREPARED NOW

the BaltusrOl tiOlf tIuO IN shape TOT
the national open championship in June
has been going on for several weeks
and George Low. the Baltusrol profess
sional, and the members OF the green
committee will be busy for the next six
or seven weeks grooming the course for
what promises to he the greatest open
championship in the history Of Ameri-
can golf. 1t is known that Harry Var
don. Edward Ray. George Duncan and
C. RI. Mayo will he seen at Baltusrol
and other noted foreigners are likely 10
come too.
Baltusroi always has been a course
on which low scores were infrequent
and 1t will he just a little harder than
ever this year A number of new traps
have been put in. some are now under
construction and others will be made
before June and the championship ar
rive. Three new traps will make the
uphill eighth harder. one Is placed on
the left TO catch a pulled tee shot and
the others are on the right higher up
the slope, where they will furnish n poor
second. The other uphill hole. the
eleventh. has a couple OF new traps on
the right well up the hill.
On the downhill twelfth n series OF
pits have been dug diagonally across
the course. where a good drive will clear
them with room to spare. They are so
placed. however. that a drive to the left
will clear the nearer pits. while one
to the right will have to he longer
to get over the pits furthest from the
tee. The drive to the right. however,
when it does clear the new traps will
have a pretty open road to the hole.
but the golfer who takes the shorter
route to the left will have wide bunker
yawning between him and the green.
much similar situation has been
created at the fourteenth There bunker
has been constructed on the right near
the edge of the fairway, but a good tee
shot will carry II. The golfer who
takes chance and does carry IL will
find nothing between him and the hole.
while the man who plays to the left
and gives the new trap a wide berth
will find broad bunker with its wide
eNpanse OF sand between him and his
goal.
A few more traps will he constructed
in the next few weeks. The course
now Is in splendid condition for this
season of the year.
Fox Hills. where the Metropolitan
open championship is to I've played this
year. will use its new eighteenth green
for the first time next Saturday. when
the qualifying round OF the annual
spring tournament OF the club will he
played. Three sixteens will qualify,
the first to continue at match play at
scratch basis and the other two on
handicap basis. No class A golfer
will he allowed in the third sixteen.
The new eighteenth green. which is
further back and which makes the
home hole "A much better test than 1t
used to he, will get its second baptism,
of fire on Monday next when the mem
h,ra nf h. %
club will compete in a one day four
some tournament ut Fox Hills There
will be both morning and afternoon
competitions and ii is expected that
nearly every member Of the club Will
make the journey TO the staten Island
links
John Shackelford. the sixteen year old
son of W. T.. Shackeford. the we'll known
Atlantic City golfer. died yesterday al
Atlantic City. His death was the result
OF injuries received in swimming race
Young Shackelford gave promise of de-
Nclopiug into an excellent golfer and
made "a good showing in the Atlantic
T city tournament last fall,
Other golf associations which conduct
open championships, the Metropolitan
for example. might do well to adopt The
new l.. :. q. \. system Of awarding
prizes Ia amateurs who finish in the
money in open Journeys. The new
L. :, g. A plan Of giving prizes OF
nominal value to- amateurs and pass
ing along the monetary reward TO The
professional next in line is one that
viii please both professionals and anna
tours The professionals who get al
100 few chances e. play for substantial
cash prizes in this country natural!
. do not like to see share OF the money
/ appropriated to encourage professional
/ skill expended for a useless cup for ar
amateur or for prize like Ouimet:
$500 ring
As for the amateurs, II IL prob
able that the plan is a direct result
II the efforts made IN the past by
amateurs who have finished in the nrs
ten to pass the money along 10 TIT
professionals beneath them on the lis
in some informal manner. Under tn
old rules governing the championship
these good hearted attempts have IA,
To be discouraged in the past, but th
new rule will clear up the situation. ant
The entire amount Of prize money ap
propriated for the national open cha m
pionship will go whore II ought TO go
to the professionals
The other change made by the u.
G. A., the addition of section Of tn
etiquette Of golf, which forbids the Civ
ing of prizes won in a qualifying roun'
to a golfer who does not play furthe
in the tourney, may not prove SO popu
lar. In fact an editorial advocating th
opposite view appears in the curren
number of one Of the golfing magazines
The writer OF the editorial evidently die
not know that the L. $. q. A. had acte,
already ON the proposition he was dis