The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1920-09-01
INTERNATIONAL
INTEREST WILL
BE CENTERED ON
THIS YEARS NATIONAL ANA.
TEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
TOURNAMENT, SEPT. G.

! NEW YORK. Sept. Information,
al interest will be centered on this
years national amateur golf champ
ionship tournament which will begin
next Monday (Sept g. at Roslyn,
Long Island. The United States
Golf Association officials have ar
ranged that the qualifying round Of
36 holes will be played over two cour-
ses, the new links of the Engineers
Club and the better known circuit of
the North Shore Country Club which
are scarcely mile apart. The big
field of entrants will be divided so
that those playing the first half of
the round on either course will play
over the other links in the afternoon.
The subsequent match play rounds
consisting of 36 holes each day, will
be contested over the Engineers Club
course which was laid out by Herbert
Strong only three years ago,
On Saturday (September a. a team
match between the United States and
Canada will be played over the En-
gineers' links and on Sunday there
will be the annual competition for
the American Golfer trophy. All of
the Canadian players who take part
in this international match will be
eligible to compete for the national
championship. Among the Dominion
representatives will be the veteran
golfer George S. Lyon, who came
close to winning the title many years
ago; c. B. Grier, the Canadian ANA
teur champion and William MeLuek-
lie, who formerly held that honor.
Great Britain may be represented by
Cyril Lolley, who recently won the
British amateur title; Lord Charles
Hone and j. H Wethered while Tho
mas Armour, the scotchman, who
holds the French amateur title, will
be one of the competitors for the
United States Golf Association hon
or. S. Davidson Heron of Pitts
burgh, last years winner, and Bobby
Jones, of Atlanta, Ga, whom he de-
feated in the final round, will be in
evidence again this year and SO will
several erstwhile national champions
including Charles Evans, Jr., Robert
G. Gardner and Francis Ouimet.
To revert to the Engineers course,
it is said that it is doubtful if any
contender for the title win be. able
to break records there. At present
the low mark is a IA, made recently
by Max Marston, Par is II, 3e out
and 35 home and 1t is the opinion of
Charles Clarks, the Roslyn profess
sional, that those golfers making ITO
for the SO hole testing round over
the two courses, will qualify for the
match play stages.
There is probably no hole on any
link In this country which has at
tracted more comment than the four
teenth. at the Engineers, known as
the "two or twenty hole" The green |
is but 105 yards from the tee, but
deem rayine intervenes. Any shot |
which does not drop on the green will
roll down steep embahkments and /
NAV not stop until it is at least ID
feet below the green, where there are
a series of sand traps, or thirty feet
down at the bottom Of the ravlne.
No traps are built across the front
of the green so that the tee shot
must be all carry and pitch in order
to get safely on. The green shaped
like the stern of battleship is per-
ched on a hill. Par for the hole is
& hut when the Professional Golfers
Association championship was held
at the Engineers a year ago, good
many of the eoHtestantss considered
themselves favored if they got
there, while many Of them took Two
or three more.
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