The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-08-30
Phil Bronson
Laughs at Us!
ST. PAUL GOLFER MAKES ALLEG.
ED FUNNY" REMARKS ABOUT
1, STATES BEST GOLF COURSE.

"a certain St. Paul golfer who
recently had occasion to visit in
the vicinity of Redwood Falls re-
turned with the information that
an eight t-hole-yes, that's right
course has been constructed re-
Gently in the hills outside the
town. The players, he said, are
tillers of the soil, who gladly set
the alarm clock an hour or two
early to play a few holes as the
sun comes up. The neophytes
may be somewhat lacking in the
finer points of the game, but they
make up for this by their enthu-
siasm. In calculating the results
they say $50 many 'swipes,' and
thirty-eight of these constitute
the course record Who says the
game is only for big towns and
for the affuent ?"
The above highly interesting little
paragraph is not taken from "joke''
column as may be supposed, but is a
fragment of Phil Bronson's "On The
Green in Two" column which is a
feature of the Saint Paul Dispatch
It contains some interesting near
What Mr.. Bronson's
did not tell him however, is
much more interesting than what he
did.
For instance the Certain St. Paul
Golfer" failed to say that this is the
first golf season for Redwood Falls
and the shortcomings of the course
are due to it's very extreme youth
Even the bucolic gentlemen-and
ladies-who play thereon know that =
real course such as any Certain st
Paul Golfer" would care to grace with
his presence, contains nine holes anJ
the full standard course is part OF
the Redwood Falls Golf Clubs plar
for next year. Incidentally it may be
interesting to both Mr.. Bronson anc
his wise friend to know that the pre-
sent course is the result of quick work
on the part Of local golfers some OF
whom have played on the courses OF
st. Paul, Minneapolis, Miami, Chicago
and a few other villages. The course
was used for playing upon the seventh
day after starting the work of laying
it. At the risk of having Mr. Bron.
son think US irreverent we are going
to state that that record maintains
the worlds highest standard fol
creation. The course record is TWEEN
ty-nine which has been made by sew:
eral players.
"Tillers of the soil'' forsooth
That makes the real "tillers here
abouts smile broadly. There isn't {
good live farmer in the bunch-i1
there were the course record woult
be just eight! AS for the gentleman
player who so far forgets the etiquette
of the game as to say "swipes s"-ht
is beyond our apology. The only rea
son why he called them swipes wa:
undoubtedly to keep from calling then
something a heap sight worse. W.
have heard some who were less dis
Greet! II ...r
Upon the return of the Certain St
Paul Golfer to Redwood Falls he will
find not only "his sisters and hi
cousins and his aunts" all ready tt
take him out and administer the gol1
drubbing he deserves, but he has a
least one Irish uncle here ready tx
show him lot of things of which
he never dreamed about the game.
Redwood Falls makes no pretenct
of belonging to the 'big- -towns-and
the-affuent class-the samples of tina
class shown here from the golf clubs
of St. Paul have shown US how futile
any such high ambition would be
But the Club does claim for its
course the greatest natural beauty OF
any course in the state; it does claim
that a club organized only six weeks
ago and now having more than eighty
members must have some pep ant
enthusiasm even though it does lacl
finish, and if Phil and the others viii
just wait, Redwood will show them the
sportiest, classiest course in this sec
tion. And when these gentlemen Wis
it US and drive just once up Lookout
Mountain they won't have enough
breath left to laugh at US.