The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-12
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WHAT TYPE OF COURSE

What makes the ideal golf course ?
That question is often asked. and
the only answer to it is that the
ideal course is found wherever there
is a congenial club membership, no
matter what the topography of the
links may be. The enthusiastic mem
Der of the golf club rightfully thinks
that his course is the best gole
course on earth. He thinks so be-
cause the fellowship he finds there
is delightful Eddy Held, the de-
lghtful public links champion, who
lives in ST. Louis. recently told me
that the Forest park links in st.
Louis, a public course. beats EN-
ALL.
Which only boes to prove that a
public links course is not always the
uninteresting playground too many
players assume it to be. Held was
not far from the truth in his obser-
walton about the very fine Forest
park course in his home city. And
those golfers who like a course that
is sporty, as the term goes, to the
nth degree, should try the Cherokee
course in Louisville, Ky. This pub
lie links is one of the really remark
able golf courses in America. Many
golfers travel thousands of miles to
play on courses they think are
sporty. which lack practically all
the factors that make Cherokee, in
Louisville, paradise for the man
who likes difficult holes.
The Hiliy Course
The interest in golf course typo,
however, seeks to distinguish be-
tween the billy and supposedly very
difficult course--because of the hills
and the flatter courses such as
many of the links around Chicago.
What the average player does not
understand is that hills and dales
do not necessarily make a more diff
ficult course because Of the hills and
dales. l was brought UP" on the
Edgewater course, which is flat, but
par golf there is as difficult as 1t is
over the hilly Oakland Hills course,
Detroit, or the very fine Pine Valley
links in Philadelphia.
When the golfer has progressed to
really fine game he knows that
traps and their placement, and his
ability to negotiate them, are what
make or mar his game. The Skokie
course, where this years NJ tional
open championship was held. Isl a
some of the worlds finests players
during the tournament. Reason
scientific, difficult traps. westmore-
land, where last years western anna
teur was staged. will fool tremen-
dously the player who at first glance
assumes it to be an easy course
Westmoreland is said to be the most
scientifically trapped golf course in
this country
The good golfer can shoot up hill
or down a hill or over a ravine just
as easily as he can execute any other
shot. The finished golfer knows,
also. that good golf requires him to
stay out of the traps; in other words
stay on the fairway. Where traps
are scientifically built into the
course that otherwise might be very
easy, the golfer is confronted with a
field that really sharpens up his
ulay. That is one reason why CHI
caeo has produced so many fine play
ers. George Won Elm, who learned
his game on a flat Salt Lake City
course, and developed into one of the
outstanding regional champions OF
the west, is an example. think
Of the golfing ability that ldevelops
with the player who must always
face traps He learns shot place
ment, which is everything in good
golf.
AFTER OTHER SPORTS-GOLF
Now that the baseball season has
ended golf will add to 1t tens of thou
sands of converts.
We always seem to enjoy golf more
in the spring, but that, ! think, is
because of the natural anxiety for
the first rounds OF the new season
after the long wait through the win
ter. In reality. the season that is
upon us right now is undoubtedly the
very crest OF the golfers year.
Who minds few scattered leaves
on a shaded green when adjacent
landscapes are a riot of gorgeous
coloring? The only regretful note
of fall golfing is that the dusk falls
earlier because of the shortening
DAYS. why can we not have day
light saving pushed an hour further
ahead in the fall instead OF back
All golfers in favor Of that will rise
and shout aye! What q mighty
chorusi sss &. K
Autumn Golfing