The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-30
ny JOHN G..

and minimizing golfer, are very much
the same year after year. They claim
that the same golfers AXE part, the
same accounts are given of matches, the
behavio OF the gallery Is like that of
former times and courses are pretty
much the saine This is said with no
disrespect. OF course, but simply with the
idea OF giving others the thought that
they are dyed in the wool golhsts who
have lost the thrills which go each year
with the matches for the title. Sorry
lot. and thankful ought we to be that
their number Is not great.
l am prompted to write these few
lines on the subject because I was talk
ing with "A fairly prominent golfer Of
high handicap. who seemed TO think that
these matches were more or less OF a
bore until tho final round. ] tried to
explain how 10 two shots would be
played except on the putting green,
which required the same judgment or
stroke, hat sectional rivalry mea a
keener game this year and that the title
was never dangling before so a pros
poets as It is at present. Those golfers
who share such feelings. ! affirmed.
were not in truth golfers at all.
We'll. WELL" said my friend. II guess
there must be some real sporting blood
in my veins. else why o l have
ONE engaged rooms two months ahead
and travelled 200 miles for a sight of
the great amateurs of the country
II il the same all over the world. In
Great Britain, where great matches have
been played so often hat 1t seems their
equal must never come again. there
might be an excuse for the loss Of In
terest for a time but even there II 10
not so or else there would never have
been $4,000 people at the fnal round OF
the open championship last year, while
10 an American were hitched up In the
insl against II. II. Hilton or John Ball
there Is no telling or contecturing what
size OF gallery would respond. hut |
guarantee Il would be the largest which
ever trod on a links. The call of the
ga,ne must always have its appeal TO
those with true sporting blood in their
veins this week. beginning at 2 O'Clock
tomorrow morning, will see a real start
made in what promises 10 he one OF the
finest weeks sport known TO half a
million or more people In this country
Quit likely the bulk ~ the millions OF
sport lovers In the land, baseball en-
thuslasts. tennis lovers and the rest,
will pause a moment to scan with some
real interest the pages which contain
the accounts OF the golfing battle which
began yesterday. has its first real quail
| INlHk tnTlllS to-ilpIl'" NV "'f N''
tinue making history for the golf popu-
latlons OF future years through the
match play AT thirty-six holes which
starts on Tuesday and goes on for the
remainder OF the week.
1t is far too early to prophesy what
may he expected from the golfers III
general except az one hazards a guess az
the qualifying score, which will admit
one 10 the charmed circle OF the Illus
$1,000 H.. .uA 4 fV,a yta fnF hlRhaSf
rewards. I think that the golfers who
can get around in 1853 will have little
fear. and IL may happen. II the weather
is bad and the wind blows strong. which
Il can do right well here, by tho way.
that a stroke higher might be good
for a tie at last place.
To those In the East who think that
a double round - So Is pretty hish
figuring for crack golfers | think a
few words about the course might n;
in well. In n nutshell I would say that
the course is fairly easy because of Its
splendid and too broad fairgreen, that
its greens are not too tricky to do grea'
damage. that care on the four shor'
holes. with four IS gained, would enable
one to get SIS on all the others and sti!
get an So and that the chances for {
low score, one approaching par OF 10,
are there.
But-and there are many good slZeC
buts-few players have been accus
toned 20 playing over a course whlc'
measures abou. $500 yards, which means
that they cannot let up in their s!ugg!nI
tactics for a moment II they would
get, par on each hole. The short holes
require care. FOR they are beauties, un-
common tests. let me add uncommon II
this way; II a golfer misses his shot
II gets him into a deep ditch where he
will have to drop for the loss OF a
stroke and still give him as hard y
shot as he had at the beginning, OF
II will put him in a trap so badly that
he will take "A s where a . was thought
likely. This Is true as we'll OF Ave
other holes on the course a badly slice
ball will fnd g%rtevcus trouble.
The difference the Detroit an6
other championship courses where w
have played lies most remarkably In this
one particular: while II was possible a
other links to make recoveries and gair
back the stroke lost by a fine shot GU
OF the rough or good recovery from th'
long grass, here there is none OF that
You miss a shot md I know OF no place
where 1t is gone so completely ther'
is NJ making 1t up. That Is what makes
the Detroit course hard enough to coun
terbalance with a vengeanc the cas-,
road which a very wide pathway to thu
green gives.
Navar before have l heard so muci
dlscussion concerning the merits OF
curse as has taken place during the las
two or three days. the goIlers ar
divided I'm into two schools, as II We're
ono whose belief Is that the course, ne
canse OF its abnormal width, Is who'll!
ont ~ the question as being worthy o
a place among the best three or four II
he country, and the other, whose opin
ion IL that the fine n and layou
are u~nsurDassed in the land,
thought the Western golfers "h'
n,aved AT Mayheld would be In "A goo'
n~osition TO Judge, and the majorit.
| seamed 10 fancy the Cleveland links be
cause n is a proyider OF better golf iron
a nicety of touch standpoint.
; Tom cNama is Arm In his belle
l that Detroit had far too many banked u
greens and a too wide fairway, and ina
, 4, Ia not to he considered with IN
Brookline Country Club,
others. both professionals and anna
> tours. agree that when a fairway is a
most a hundred yards In width. AS II !
: I'm many places here. It does not max
Tor the development of good golfers, a
the driving becomes sloppy In the eN
: treme In his they are right but 10
$ oil that I feel that the Detroit cours
. has the elements of what might be mad
; as hne n course as there In anywhere.
. I understand that there are ninet
J. more bunkers TO be placed before al
other yeey 6 y by. When these are pu
In near the green and set along the side
|, mr. In the very middle Of the fairway y
I that a drive will nave to he placed ever
.L.t ..sgIl ha earned which IN III