The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-19
New Golf Course Is
 Urged By Old Timers
Something Planned After the Style of Best Courses In England and Scotland Needed--Gossap of Game Among
 Topnotchers This Country and Abroad

the more important championship 1 tournaments shall be played annually has frequently been proposed by both English and American enthusiasts This proposition has aroused much favorable and unfavorable comment; opinion being, apparently, sharply di- vided on the feasibility of the plan. It has been pointed out that such course would standardize champion ship play and make it possible to compare the form and ability of the | various winners, sem1-fna1ists, and ] others in different years, thus fur 1 furnishing basis for accurate com 1 parisons.
 Opponents of the scheme take the l stand that unless certain drastic re- | strictions and conditions were impos- l ed a few favt-'ed players would i greatly benefit owing to their being 1 residents near the course. It is l also held that in no other. sport Is a | perpetual light given to any one course or field for the holding of a national championship although 1t is admitted that in baseball, tennis, track athletics and similar contests, the competition surface is far more standardized than in golf.
 There are still ot1-=r angles to be
  British golfers are becoming more interested each succeeding year in the proposition for a national course. J. H. Taylor has revived this suggestion as it is well known that many of the clubs are becoming weary at having l their links overrun for a fortnight or 1 more whenever a championship is ! played for on any of their courses | On these occasions hundreds of play | CTS hack up the teeing grounds for 1 the short holes, scar the fairways, no l matter how punctilious they may be replacing 6iyots, and assault the | bunkera
 l The players, however, present | less serious problem than do the masses of spectators, the majority of l whom have little or no regard for the ] damage they cause by climbing up | and down the bunkers and swarming over he putting greens In addition 1 to the trouble of organizing tn hese | meets and the susnension of the gen. ! era1 use Of the links for play by the members, for a couple of weeks at least, the club has to spend in many instances hundreds of pounds in re- pairing and renoYating the links after such titular invasions of it's property
 In view of the possibility of entries l AIleT1can SCGTeI5 VIII D0 1uJsrESceG I'll the latest reports from Kent, Eng land, where the Deal Golf Clubs course is situated, which are to the effect that it is doubtful if the fa- nous links can be made playable in time for the 1920 British open cham pionship next Spring. Soon after the outbreak of the war in 1914. the British military authorities converted part of this course into a shooting J-ay
 oonmandeered by the government of 11cia1s who quickly changed the fair ways, greens, hazards and tees into @ chaotic area, of well trampled com mon
 When the Deal Club regained pos- session of it's property recently, part of the course was in an appalling ] condition, the grass being waist high in places and about one-third of the links totally oblfterated. The work of renovation was begun inn mediately and is daily being hurried to the limit of all the labor and other help available.
 The Deal Course had enjoyed an enV1able reputation for many years only one fault being found with z+s original construction. This was due to the fact that the first nine hoIes followed on almost in a, straight line and those on the incoming trip were similarly laid out As a result ii often happened that the players had the wind against them all one way and with them over the other half o1 the links
 During the present reconstruction this will be changed so that the straightness of the course will not be a matter for criticism any more. The , War Office had wiped out the eighth ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth holes and good part of the fairway to the thirteenth.
 The alterations now being made will change the lie of these holes a<
 follows: The new eight will ha . short one of 40 yards going towarf
 the sea The ninth lie will be al.
 most on the shore in full view of the Channel, and will be back to a. greer
 on the old eighth fairway Then fo, ' the tenth there is to be 8 two-s7, n
 hole of $50 yards out seawards agair
 and for the eleventh you come ba,cl about 400 yards to natural plates1
 green.
 The twelfth will measure 45O ward.
 and the thirteenth will be a dog-leg
 ged type of hole. but the remafnde1 of the course will be renovated aIons
 
 Should the Deal course not be il ? proper condition in time for tn,
 championship the "open'' will be heli on the links of the Royal St. George Club at Sandwich in the same count,
 provisional arrangement having beer
 made to house the national competi
 tors there.
 Early this year the six controIIin: | clubs will consider suggested i'm
 proven1ents in the championship con = ditions The idea is to deal fairI n with the big list of entrants for thi - national event as no golfer, amateu .- or professional can be denied tn l. right to compete for the open honor d A qualifying test must be imposed d but this cannot be carried through il n a single day. In 1914 the experimen Il of splitting the field of competitor 1T was tried. They were divided into tw Is equal sections and played off on tw e separate courses This may be trie
 again this year over the Deal an Tt Sandwich links which are not yer a far apart.