Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-04
Great Field Is Rehearsed for
U. S. amateur Title Run
Of-More Threes Than
Fires - Other Holes De.
n,and Direction Rather
Than Slugging
By SANDY McNIBLICK

Engineers c. c., Roslyn. l.. l.,
Sept. 1.
ONE look at the arena here over
" whose hills and dales the classic
struggle for the amateur golf cham
pionship of the United States will so
shortly commence Is enough.
II is enough to convince that few
amateurs are going TO break * in the
qualifying round Monday. enough to in
Spire depression over the sloping eff
feCts Of the greens, the numerous and
cunning traps and the rugged nature
OF the rough.
A veteran golfer is Immediately i'm
pressed with the necessity of placing
the tee shot rather than to 60 always
for slugging carry.
Here at the Engineers the main idea
is to place the shot to the right or the
left or down the middle in order to open
up the hole for n simpler second shot.
This done, it is a comparatively sim
pie matter to run off three or four par
it is just as easy to run afoul hectic
eight.
It is being dohe every day by the
starriest army Of golfers that has ever
competed IN any amateur championship
anywhere. II was being done today by
the finest gt~ers. II ism wild eyed
guess that it will be done Monday
and throughout the championship.
Virtually all the entrants had ar
rived here today and were out there
battling in desperate rehearsal over the
course which is scarcely four years old:
but which is shortly to hold its second
great championship.
A Three and Five
High scoring is the rule. There are
only three short holes and they require
the finest Of finesse to hole a 3. Indeed.
part Of the high scoring Is doubtless
due 10 the fact that it is exceedingly
easy to hole ) or on the short
ones.
The first short hole is the eighth. IL
| is 9OS yards in length and calls for di-
! rpctiOn as the prime factor for par
! scoring. 1t generally calls for long
| iron. but many have already adopted
| the policy of playing short for a sure
fOur rather than the risking of pull
or slice TO the strenuous traps at either
side. where one may pay more than a
full penalty for taking a livid chance.
Another short one is the tenth, which
is perhaps the best chance of the trio
10 catch off a g. But trapped bal
three calls for serious physical labor
before the ball is finally bullied onto the
green.
The last little one is the fourteenth
hope and despair of all who cross its
trying boundaries.
4 straight line from tee to greer
would probably be eighty yards ii
length. but in between are yawnirs
depths which give it a yardage of 10'
yards on the cards.
The green is like the stern of bat
tleship, a plateau or knob, rather
/ sloping away from the shot, if any
! thing.
! An underapproach is as fatal as
s oyerapprOaChipg here.
I The distance from the bottom of tn,
+. dip to the edge OF the green is abou
e eighty feet, very steep and all rougl
b grass and high.
There are traps at the base of tn,
o triangle and cut into the face of th,
G two walls. If the delicate tee pitcl
here goes wrong, the second shot re
Y quired may very easily inspire tha
s panicky feeling which will ruin the cool
v est of the veterans.
S An overapproach VIII descend on tn
other side 70 Q depth Of some ninst.