San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01
Great Records Have Been
Made in Northern Studios
This Winter.--Evans Picks
an AlI-American Golf
Course-Other Golf Cos
sip.
Nv WALTER CAMP.

Copyright, by The San Antonio Light.
New York, March 3f.-With the
snow and ice gone from the northern
courses. the average golfer, who has
looked with envy upon those enjoying
vacations in the sunny south, has be-
gun to think of getting out his old
bag of clubs and to see visions III
anticipation of the great improvement
he is going to make in his game this
year.
He has read in the advertising
pages of the golfing magazines about
new clubs and new balls.sand has, In
bis minds eye. purchased already one
Of these wonderful drivers and the
ball that will go 90 yards farther
than any other. and has had dreams
of reaching holes in two shots which
always previously have taken him
three.
1t is indeed n game of the magma
ton, and the marvellous scores that
many make when clOsetcd in their
studies. instead of on the fairway,
would break all records. Indeed there
are new things in golf, and We shall
see test of many of them again this
year. Some will be turned down by
the harsh edicts of the governing
body, but by far the greater proper
ton will prove futile at the hands of
the player himself. for. after all, as
Bob Mcdonald said. when testing out
steel and wooden shafts, at is the
man and not the shaft that makes
the ball 60"
Picks All.American Course.
One of the novelties has been the
drift Of football sentiment into golf
as illustrated by the selection by
Chick Evans of an All-American
course of nine holes. And he has
picked one hole from the new Pine
Valley course outside Philadelphia.
another from the old Chicago Golf
Club, one from st. Louis Country
Club. one from that most picturesque
and interesting course, Mayfield at
Cleveland. one from the Merton
Cricket Club, one from the Columbia
Club in Washington "a course which
gave the "pros" some trouble n
couple of years ago., one from Mem
phis in the South. one from the
Glossmoor outside Chicago, and one
from the Heroic National Links on
Long Island. Here is an opportunity
for other golfers to show their imagin
atoms in putting together holes from
perhaps comparatively unknown
courses.
We are sending a team over to the
British amateur championship. One
of the most encouraging signs that
some Of the men selected will be
wise enough TO face the situation is
n statement from Ouimet in which
he shows that he realizes fact that
our amateurs here have either forgot
ten or ignore; namely, that the top
notch golfers "play run-up shot"
wherever opportunity opens for it.
The failure to recognize this and to
master and use the shot has been one
IF our weaknesses abroad. The Brit
ish golfer has in his bag both the
high pitch-and.stop and the run-up
shot. and with hard, treachcrous
greens and in a wind he opens up
the opportunity II possible for his
shot, whereas the majority of
,ur golfers ignore very largely the
question of opening up the hole. rely.
ing upon their mashie niblicks to
send the ball over intervening hazards |
and stop on the green.
Little Cut To Drives.
Another point which our golfers !,
should BOAR in mind is the fact that |
Jock Hutchison, when he won over
there. confessed that he had taken a
caf out Of Vardon's book and played
his long tee shots with the faintest
suspicion of a cut rather than n pun.
In the last open before the war in
l014. the writer was at Prestwick |
and saw Vardon's work and saw how
beautifully his ball travelled out and |
then faded off lust a little at the |