The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-12
GOLFERS TO GATHER
AT SLEEPY HOLLOW
Many Prominent Metropolitan
Players will Contest
This Week.
TITLE GAMES AT

The Sleepy Hollow Country Tub will
hold It's fourth invitation tournament
for members n their guests on Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday Of this week.
and II IL probable that a big field will
play. Most Of the prominent golfers in
the Metropolitan district have been in
vited. n n number Of them will be
on hand. Several prominent golfers from
other cities also have been invited, some
Of whom may find 1t possible TO play.
The tourney. which will be the last
until the golfers assemble on the Ma
tional Golf Links in the latter part OF
next month, will begin with an eighteen
hole qualifying round on Thursday. and
no attempt will be made to get the match
rounds under way on that day. The
number Of sixteens to qualify will de-
pend upon the size of the field. and
there will he beaten eight classes in
the first three slxteens.
On Friday two match rounds will he
played in all sixteens. leaving both semi
hnaI and final round for Saturday.
There also will he AN eighteen hole ham
dicap on Saturday with prizes for the
first and second net scores.
Following the example set many years
by the Metropolitan Golf Associa-
ton. other district associations have
opened their open championships to all
golfers without restriction as to rest
dence. so that this year the professionals
have found a regular circuit Of open
Journeys awaiting them.
1t began with the national open at
Baltusrol last month. which was closely
followed by the Massachusetts open at
Brookline. which attracted nearly all OF
the prominent professionals who were
Mt Baltusrol. Then came the Metropoli-
tan open AT Fox Hills last week. with
the same lot Of title seekers on hand.
and they are by no means through with
their travels.
On Wednesday Of this week most Of
them will assemble at Shawnee for the
Pennsylvania open. which is a thirty-six
hole AFFAIR decided in one day. Walter
Hagen. Tom Mcnamara. Jim Barnes and
many Of the others will play. and there
also will be a strong amateur entry
from Pennsylvania. as the state ANA.
teur championship begins at Shawnee
on the following day.
Connecticut will give the professionals
their next opportunity to gather In fame
and cash.. for the Connecticut open
championship will be played at the
S-henecossett Country Club. near New
London. on July % and "a.
Last on the list IL the annual open
championship OF the Western Golf Asso-
citation. which will be played this year
on the course OF the Glen Oak Country
Club. near Chicago. on August IS and
10. The Western always is a big event
and many OF the prominent Eastern pro-
~fessionals usually enter. In fact the
present Western open champion In Jim
Barnes OF the Whitemarsh Valley
Country Gu Of Philadelphia.
Although the arrangement OF such n
circuit OF open championships this year
was more or less accidental. no better
help TO professional golf in the United
states could ave been devised. and "
the same arrangement of Journeys is
made in future seasons the standard
or play by the professionals should he
improved materially. for In the past
lack Of opportunity for competitive golf
has been their greatest enemy.