The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Make Excellence Count.


heavily on the ability OF the golfer to
put his mashie or midiron shot on a
space sixty by sixty, and then the sue
cessful golfers viii have this chance on
each green OF trying for the hole in
stead of simply trying to get the ball
dead.
Isn't 1t too much to ask Of player
who has had two shots requiring mus
cular control and a certain degree of
strength to modulate Immediately his
whole golf idea. which has been for dis
tance and direction through the medium
of hard hit shots? small green puts
a wonderful premium upon direction.
the we'll trapped greens with bunkers
right in the very face would make the
player who was off direction almost sure
or a loss Of d stroke, the same one
which is used UP by a ball which comes
to rest at the extreme end Of the large
putting green.
III would be a different matter. this
need for adjusting ones control 70 the
niceties demanded by putter and re-
sponsive ball IL the greens We're Of a
slow surface and uniform But come
the first tournament and what happens?
The blade Of the lawn mower Is pared
to its finest edge, and away the pail
slSips when the usual touch Is given its
"a better time IS to be had by ALL" II
GOLF Is to be made commensurate in
the three divisions driving, iron play
and putting. then we could follow the
scheme Of Ranelagh and make smaller
greens.
But we have digressed a bit from the
ladies' play There must be some other
reason for the low scoring which was
manifest few days ago. II can pe
found. / think, In the wonderful infiu-
ence which the Ladies Golf Union OF
Great Britain holds over the players.
This union held a meeting last week In
London and over 300 delegates were
present. some Of them travelling several
hundred miles There are no fewer than
900 clubs in the union quite remarka-
BILE. isn't IL. when we consider that
number to be hundred more than the
club membership OF the q. s. @. A.. z
The meeting was one after which some
Of our own associations might well pat
tern. Five minutes was permitted Tor
n resolution. three minutes for the sec
onder and three minutes for subsequent
speakers
Bettcr Handicap system.
n had long been recognized that the
Ladies' Golf Union had the better OF
the handicap system in Great Britain,
and in fact the men are to-day model
ing or rather working out system
which follows closely after that fol-
lowed for over twenty years BY the
ladies. A scratch score has been the
basis for many years and the par OF
the holes, or rather the scratch score
Of the course, has been made by a
committee appointed To visit the course
and define the score limits. This in
essence was the Massachusetts system
for many years. a scheme which worked
out admirably.
Rut IL was found that ii was almost
impossible for a small group to visit
every course when the number was
growing up into the five and six nun
dreds So the ladies worked out a
par of their own on the yardage basis
with a for hole up 70 l15 yards, .
for a hole up to $50 yards. a
FOR n hole up 10 500 yards, and all
over that length TO be decided upon
by special visits of a committee. Re-
turns had been made by a score or more
az clubs with figures based upon their
allotted scratch score and what Il
would work our under the new yardage
system. and there was practically no diff
ference.
The players handicaps would be
worked out upon returns from at least
three courses which had a par Of at
laast Is which would mean that q
player who knew the intricacies OF her
own links would not acquire a low han
dicap on the basis on the low returns on
o4hcr ao-cailed standard ladies' links.