Evening star., 1922-08-27

glance at the schedule drawn up
by the United States Golf Associa ton
discloses that following the final
Qualifying day, Monday. September 4.
the thirty-two amateurs who qualify
TOR the match-play rounds must! play
Two rounds of the course every day
until eliminated. The two finalists on
saturday. september O. will be play
ing their fifth consecutive thirty six
mole day.
And some people believe the pro-
iessional championship is 4 grind"
Pros Really Have II Ensy.
The paid players have a compara-
lively easy time of il, speaking from
the physical Rand mental viewpoint,
as compared with the amateurs who
compete at match play for the blue
ribbon of American amateur golf. on
saturday, September ,. at the Country
Club. Brookline. Mass, where this
years event is to be held the entire
field will play eighteen holes. The
leading GA scores and ties will play
off Monday at eighteen holes medal
play. and the leading 32 in this test
VIII then be eligible to compete in the
first match play round scheduled for
Tuesday, the first day of the thirty
siX-hole matches. Does it not appear
as If the player with the greatest
physical stamina. perhaps not the
greatest golfer, should win the event?
ihe tOuESe Ol lne tOGntTy IIuD
probably will measure nearly $500
Yards during the stirring days in
early September, when the leading
amateurs OF the world will compete
for the title now held by Jesse F.
Guilford of Boston.
Must Walk Ten Miles n Day.
In playing twice around this course
in one day they probably will walk
a total of ten miles, counting the dis
hpt orr TA,
miles day is not too much. even for
II fve-day stretch, but the mental and
actual physical strain of champion
ship golf is enough to exhaust any
player over the thirty-six- hole route.
TO win. he must go through the pace
for five successive days Is it any
wonder that golfer of phlegmatic
temperament is more apt to win than
the highly nervous chap?
In addition to the actual distance
covered, the championship finalist
must play somewhere between 14O
and ITO shots each of the five days
While the physical effort involved in
making the golf shot is not great
repetition of the same thing for many
days takes something out of the
player.
GrueIing Physical Test.
SO it would appear that the amateur
golf championship of the United States
physical qualities of the victor. Is it
not true that recent champions have
almost invariably been large men, well
able to stand up under the physical
strain and urge of thirty-six holes a
day for five successive days? In COM
parison with the amateur champion
ship the professional event is a mere
romp, although We will admit the strain
of medal play is bit more severe than
that of match play. But that is, per-
haps, wholly mental
Although all authorities agree that
the solid week Of play for the amateur
event is quite a siege of golf for even
the most ardent devotee of the game,
It would hardly be fair to shorten the
match play rounds. 1t wdlld not be
reasonable to expect Chick Evans, for
example. to overcome an early lead on
mediocre opponent in an eighteen
hole match, when the same Evans
might go out on the thirty-six hole test
and win hands down.
How 1t Worked in England.
In the British titular event several
years ago eighteen-hole match play
advance rounds We're held, and in one
of these Evans was dropped out by
spectacular nine-hole shots by a left
handed player named Bruce Pearce of
New Zealand. The American amateur