Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-06
STYMlE IS
RESTORED BY
ASSOCIATION
Steel Shaft Golf Clubs Bar
red From Tournaments;
To Charge Admission.

New York, April 5.-Restoration of
the stymie, banning of the steel shaft
clubs from tournament play and
charging admission to all champion
ship tournaments, were among de-
cisions announced today hx the execu-
tive committee of the United States
Golf association.
In restoring the stymie, thu COM
mittee makes the American game in
this respect uniform with the royal
and ancient play of Great Britain. The
stymie was abolished in January.
1921, .i
Explaining it's decision, the com
mittee says the stymie belongs in
golf" because cit represents the most
scientific phase of the game"
| Came Not Improved.
The game vas not improved by its
abolition, in the committees opinion,
o did it accomplish the purpose in
tended. One year supplied a flair
test" to determine the point.
The new stymie rule that|will pre-
vail reads:
"A player is laid a stymie if on the
putting green the opponents ball lies
in the line of his putt to the hole.
provided the balls be not within six
inches of each other
The discarded rule read:
When either ball is on the putting
green. the player may remove the OPP
ponent's. ball; the opponent then shall
be deemed to have holed i'm his next
stroke"
In preventing the use Of steel shaft
clubs the committee feels that it has
nlpped in the bud an instrument that
the. best friends Of golf thought would
be injurious to proficiency in play.
Aids Imperfect Shots.
THE committee feels that with the
steel shaft the lack of tension caused
the club to act in~differently from the
ordinary accepted shaft for with
tically been reached
Furthermore" the committee
adds, experiments and tests show
that an imperfectly played shot with
the steel shafted weapon often gets re-
suits for h reason that the blade of
n club has not turned even when
entering too deeply into the turf.
I'm other words it is felt thai in
stead of making for good golf it offers
too much of an aid to imperfectly
played Shots"
The decision to charge admission
for championship tournaments was
largely the result of agitation by a
number Of clubs over whose courses
immense galleries have tramped. At
meetings under the associations
auspices there will be a charge Of 81
a day or IS a week. The committee
calls attention to the fact that such a
charge is only in line with practice of
most sports, and that clubs should be
reimbursed for entertainment and
damage to links.
Want Better Ball.
The committee is favorably con.
sidering replacing the present sized
championship ball with a larger one
Experiments have been begun but
poor weather conditions prevented
completion and decision was deferred
In changing the ball the committee
aims to obtain a pellet Of greater
durability"
Nothing has been decided abou,
sending another American team
abroad such as went to England las,
year. Official c~ognizance Of the ad.
vent of a British team however, was
taken.
Stymie To Remain Out.
Chicago, April 5.-The stymie will
! remain barred by the Western. Coll
association, comprised of some 800
clubs from Pittsburgh to California
according to President Advert r
Gates. who said that while he per.
sonally had n objection, to the
stymie. the general sentiment record.
ed since the annual meeting opposed
it. I'm
The steel shafted club has been al
lowed in play by the Western associa,
ton.
The Western rule abolishes tn.
sty1nie outright while the trans
Mississippi Golf association rule.
there is no stymie unless a player lay.
himself n by trickling up behind hi!
opponents ball on the green.