The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-13
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The Year's Best Golf

The best golf played in America this year-what was it. where and who?
 | Now we'll have a surprise!
 The best golf played in this present historic season was the driving Of the British team of amateurs who came here for the International matches in August and most of whom took part in our National Amateur championship at Brookllne in Sep- tember.
 Analysts of the game are wont to argue that driving is golfs easiest shot and the one of perhaps the least importance in finished playing. l hold different view. Every player knows that the most satisfying shot In the game is the long, floating, far | reaching, straight drive, and the drive is, in fact. immensely satisfy ing even If 1t isn't so straight so long as it goes far. I know of no other shot of more real consequence in championship play than the placed and held tee shot-I mean the shot from the tee that is put exactly where you want 1t and made to stay right there.
 Good Driving Featured
 It Is peculiarly fitting therefore that the best playing the game turned up during. the present season was the driving of the British in vaders. And more so because British experts in the game-Vardon among l others-had very keenly criticized i, English players for what he termed "a craze for long tee shots" 1 The driving abilities of the British not only constituted the best golf of | our season, but their drives were the most beautiful golf I have ever beheld. There are several kinds Of good drives, but there is but one per feet golf drive. Some tee shots scream along the ground, get long roll and attain distance. The beau | tiful. masterly- executed tee shot leaves the tee with a whir, shoots | straight for the air-going not too high-then seems fairly to float. The ball literally hangs in the air. You 1 have seen such drives; perhaps you make them now and then. The British players of whom I speak were mast CTS of the perfect rhythm and the exact timing that enabled them to so master the tee shot during all their play here.
 A Mighty waIIop 1 The Britisher hits hard He hits l NitH HliEnty WduOp, None or lHo easy taps for him. Those who have seen Abe Mitchell send a 300-yarder screaming from the tee know exactly what I mean in saying the English star hits hard. They have peculiar knaclS of hard hitting The small players. like Roger Wethered, hit just as hard Mitchell. For in stance. at the second tee at Brook line, with the green some 300 yards Iup a hill, and the fairway curving somewhat to the left, I made up my mind to put everything I had into my tee shot. don't often press but 1 l pressed here. Wethered, paired with me, must have noticed it. I got some 260 yards. my ball coming to rest just above the bunker to the left of the fairway. Wethered stepped up and with seeming ease-and all I most to my mazement-drove this second Brookline green.
 The reason think these exhibi- | tfons we had of British driving were the best playing of the year is due to the fact that the British player, somehow, masters the art of hitting hard without hitting hard. That seems to be a jumbled statement. but what I mean is that the Britisher l knows how to execute golf's best shot without seeming to over exert himself-without pressing. He gets the rhythm, which of course is every thing.
 The British player takes time to study the game; most of us over here have time only to play it.
 Copyright John F. Dille Co.)