The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-04
HIGH HANDICAP GOLFERS
ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK
Most of Them Blame Their Driving for Their Big Scores,
When Real Cause Generally Is Poor
Putting and Approaching.

irritable person I have become n Of
better poise. all due, ] feel, to this out
side part Of the game Of golf"
1t Is refreshing to hear of n one
who raj give such testimony and an
object lesson to those who are accus-
TONED to be free in their remarks o
the members OF the green committee.
who. after all, are usually elected by the
majority of the club members or APP
pointed by those in authority in whom
the members have a just faith.
have spoken before Of the necessity
OF procuring a reliable inks architect to
lay mt the course. TO see to II that there
Is proper drainage for the greens, TO plan
before a single move is made n r
have competent men in charge Of every
section OF the work. Let me tell OF an
Incident which this very day has come
before me. y year x advice was given
to "a group OF business men In a New
England city of fifty thousand or so
which lat no golf course, the substance
OF which was to engage a well known
golf architect to look over the ground
and give advice thereon. The charge for
this service I happen to know would not
have been over 5000. but this small sum
stood in the way OF the engagement and
the representative men who guide the
stltli W l"V W. " nv t"'''
eNorbitant for a mans time for "A couple
Of days at the most. SO. as sometimes
happens they asked their friends to think
up some one else who would be. sup
posedly. just as good. To their JOY they
succeeded. and here are the results which
came to time only a few hours ago.
A landscape artist was hired TO do the
work. probably because he was n clever
arts; al growing grass for lawns and In
fnSbinninu rolls and contours and de-
signs In AN artistic manner. II was soon
discovered, however, that to grow grass
on " Is one thing and to lay cut a
golf curse Is another. There was no
| need. so II seemed. To give the contractor.
a home product. any advice on how he
should go at the work. Al least no one
thcugh; II was necessary because the
man knew more than the embfrs of
the committee about contracting. II
was small wonder then that instead OF
blasting out hundreds Of rocks as
many as possible We're covered up.
only TO appear, of course. whei'
the frost had worked them out
OF the ground. The result now
shows that net only has there been
q total waste Of a couple OF thousands
| OF dollars. but II IL almost impossible &c
ge, any one u touch the job. Three mer
have been offered the position and have
refused to touch the botch which has
been made. The result, Of course. will be
that they will go back to the man orig.
inally mentioned and offer him the sun
which he is worth.
II is the strangest thing in the worlt
that such capable business men SHOULD
he so susceptible as to try and save
penny ard lose "A pound. ] have known
OF not a few cities and towns. particu
larry the latter, where the thought o.
getting IN a golf club was done with onl,
the idea OF receiving larger returns II
business. and when this has been the cas-
there have usually been put on the com
mittee men who were very successful
but who seldom thought OF sport as sport
The inevitable result was IA poor cours.
at a large Expense with no regrets from
those who knew the reasons why. Som
! day we will have a body of architect
I skilled In links construction who will b
registered with the L. 8. O.. A., with
varying scale of prices, and then Their
will he an end to haphazard ~
NOTHING on the links.