New-York tribune., 1915-03-28

Harry Vardon and other experts say
that our golf courses have been under
trapped and too spsrsely bunkered-
and that to improve our golf we must
add extra hazards and put a further
t. upon a poorly played shot.
But what has the Tired Business
Man 10 say about it? What is the in
expert opinion Of the countless dufers
who slice, hook. top. schlsff, foozle and
stutter their way around the course!
Even now in their dreams at night
they see mountain range TO carry, an
ocean to pitch over and q fatrway two
feet wide fsnked with bOttomless grot-
toes inscribed with the Dantean legend,
"ALL HOPE ABANDON-YE WHO
ENTER HERE"
They know as their driver starts
toward the ball what the next spoken
line will be once the maledictions and
the profanity are concluded:
"Boy-bring me a nibllek.'
A wasted command. The csddie had
taken the niblick out Immediately after
handing over the driver. Habit brings
on Instructive action. No great fore
thought is required. The caddie's ac-
tion was purely sub-conscious, the re-
suit Of constant repetition.
And yet in place Of emerging from
the wilderness with the promised bun
kerless land in sight, these, whom we
might call the buffers OF the game. are
only on the threshold of their troubles.
If what Harry Vardon, Donald Ross
and others have TO say is correct, lie
for these hereafter will be just one
bunker after another-an endless cham
effect OF earth thrown up and traps cut
deeply.
There is no pleasure for us in say
ing what we feel must be said 10 those
who already spend three-fourths OF
their golfng time hidden from sight
below the earth's level or blurred from
view by some towering bunker, where
only the whirr of the niblick as heard .
that and language that no man snail
ever see in print.
But murder will out" as the saying
is said to be. The news must be
broken some time. so why not now
and here?
The Object of Golf.
The object Of golf from now on,
saws Donald Ross. who has laid out
seyentv-three American courses, will
he toward an even greater science OF
stroke Deep traps will be placed down
the centre so that the golfer must
shoot either to the right or left. 10
nIav we'll a man must have wide
rarie.v of shots. More and more he
v;Il he forced to use his head Gs well
as his hands and arms. More and
more the golfer will have 10 have coz
troll over the club to insure dlrection
or meet certain trouble.
The edict has gone forth that goli
has become too easy ana thsV oec'ucu
changes must be made. ,.,.
Ycf there are many golfers now Ike
that visitor who pumped his tee shot
into the trap guarding the eighteehth
Green st Garden City. with ms trust!
1ibiick in his hand he disappeared from
v;ew There soon followed the muhled
sound Of much thudding OF sand -Ihe
echo az a strong-lunged man using even
strorger language and then the Dod-
NO hnsb of silence. Three minutes
fo,r roinutes-five minutes mis- oppon.
ant waited above. Finally he could
sta,d the strain no longer. why don {
vou drop your club and throw the pal!
out ?" he yelled down in disgust;
OFF" came the reply, with even
more disgusted intonation-" "that :
MAI I've been trying TO do Tor hve
minutes. What do you think am
walsh or a Mathewson y
This brings US again TO the llreo
Rusiness Man, held responsible Tor so
manv foolish plays. We interviewed a
ig1oC number Of those whose scores
rarCe from 100 to ia for eighteen
holes. and the general verdict about