The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-06

A few days ago a certain golfer
whom 1 have known for some time
! came to me with this remark:
! ct can't understand what is the mat
+a,- With nv game. I seem to be get
/ ttng worse and worse. 1 had an i'm
/ ,ortant match yesterday with a man
| was anxious to beat never "o 'i re-
barder to get ready or played more
/ soIf before this match, and can re-
1oer,ber when 1 was ever worse.
How much golf did you play before
| the MATCH" I asked
/ well" he said. 4 played thirty slS :
holes three days in succession ana
nra cticed a little on the side.
And vet, accustomed to playing only
once or twice a week, he wondered
after three thirty six-hole ROUNDS m
succession, why ms game was
and he had no touch! s,.
when he spoke of this I tmmedla-
ate1v thought of Harry Vardon' >; n.
ravior and James Braid even IN their
voi,nEer days before an open cham
pionship. .,,,...
around the course for exercise out
for two days before you couldn't get
one of these to touch club
They knew the value OF starting a
tournament, of facing a nara natch'
when one was keen for the game,
whereas the man who played those
three thirty-six-hole rounds started
footsore and muscle sore, stale and
nervous and in no condition TO handIe
his usual game.
The Amateur Championship.
The amateur championship starts
this week at st. Louis over the Couh-
try club course
In this championship there will be
n number of very fine players who
will be worn out by the second round.
men who have already reached the
edge of going stale by too much play
some of them have been playing
two rounds over the course for several
days and their keenness has already
bsgun to slip.
championship was held at Detroit.
The course that year was very long.
Many crack golfers who had been
playing steadily all summer came
there a week ahead for thirty holes
a day. But there were two men who
had been playing much less than most
of the others. They were Robert
Gardner and John Anderson.
Both were fresh and keen for play
when they came, and later on, when
the others were sagging, these two
they were the two who reached the
final round.
The best way to train for a cham
pionship or big tournament of any
sort Is 10 pay All the E0iA you CdAls III
a reasonable way, for ten days or two
weeks ahead. Then rest for a day
or two. have another workout, an
other rest and then play only one
round during the two days preceding
the tournament play
Keenness for the game Is necessary
for good golf. especially when you
have several days Of steady play in
front OF you. And yet L should say
that when a tournament starts eight
out of every ten golfers are badly over
played.
The Winning System.
1 played just one round of golf over
the-Columbia course before the quail
flying round. Just one round.
Last year at the Engineers many
were predicting trouble for Chick
Evans because he was so late in ar
irving. Chick" got there just in time
for one practice round. But Chick
was smart enough to know that he
would need all the strength and keen
ness for the hard weeks grind, and
he was not working himself out in
advance.
1 believe that was one trouble with
the American team in the British
amateur championship at Hoylake.
They were on the ground nearly two