The New York herald., 1922-04-07
Golfer. to visit Outpost.

With the selection OF Lakewood Coun-
try Clubs links for the annual amateur
championship metropolitan golfers for
the second time since the postwar re-
sumption OF title tournaments are con-
fronted with the prospect OF visiting one
of the outposts Of their district and incl
dentally Of trekking to a spot remote
enough to necessitate staying away from
| home from the beginning OF the cham
| pionship until the end or as long as In
| dividual participation lasts. AS in 1919
when the tournament was decided over
| the links of the Brooklawn Country Club
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, there will be nc
committing between rounds. With Lake
wood. Hollywood and Knickerbocker the
cnly three applicants such state OF
affairs was foreshadowed from the first
Tenafiy, where the Knickerbocker bus
meets all the trains, was the only hope
of the golf widows. but the latter club
was but one in three. for had Hollywood
| received the assignment It would also
! have been q case of compulsory rural
residence for the entrants in the metro
! politan."
Not so many years ago the New Jer-
| sey Golf Association found itself face to
face with just such a problem. Atlantic
City was hot on the trail Of the State
championship, and as Atlantic City had
just as much right to consider itself In
the running as any club nearer to New
York Z went after the New Jersey off,
cials with the argument that inasmuch
as 1t was a member of the association
and never had held the little event 1t
might just as well have 1t then as later.
To thu credit of the New JerseymeH be
II sad that they saw the point exactly
as Atlantic City saw It The field was
one OF the best that ever competed In
that tournament There Is every reason
to believe that history will repeat In the
case of this years metropolitan and that
there will be an entry Of the finest
Lakewood Has Fine Course.
Looking facts squarely In tho face,
Lakewood has quite as muck reason to
expect consideration from the Metropol-
tan Association as any other club, not
only for It's long affiliation with that or
ganization, but also on account of hav-
ing very 6ne layout indeed. Several
years ago, after the clubhouse had been
burned down for the second time the
officials decided on a complete reorganf-
zation of club and links. The semi
annuel tournaments. which for SO long
have been a feature of Northern golf,
were -uspended and Walter ]. Travis set
to work to remodel the course which. let
tention.
Travis cut into entirely new territory.
blazing trail through the pine trees
When the Garden City veteran had an
ished his work he not only had the old
course looking like the real thing. bit
also had added to the layout three very
interesting and exceptionally strong new
holes, the twelfth. thirteenth and four
teenth.
Favored by conditions of soil and
weather found nowhere else In the met
ropolitan district Lakewood usually eets
good start on all the other courses
around. SO far ahead Is ft In fact that
down there they are cutting the putting
green's before other clubs have opened
their links. Even as early as the first
week In May the course is usually spiclx
and span for the spring tournament Bv
June z. the opening day OF the tonrna-
ment. IT should be In good condition.
Lakewood Country Club the last few
years has spent great deal of none,
en- Its course. Evidently IL Is not vet
ready to draw the purse strings since II,
is no doubt apparent to the officials that
the present clubhouse facilities NAV NOT
be altogether adequate during a cham
pionship. Quite possibly II may be found
necessary to supplement the present
locker or dining room facilities. How
ever, these matters are in good hands
Fred Kimball, Frank Barton and the
others concerned have attended cham
pionships enough to know what is re-
Quired OF them and their club. II will
indeed be surprising II the golfers do
not enjoy themselves thoroughly during
their sojourn in the pines.