Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Superb Florida Links
Make Ancient Game
States Big Sport
Augusta Offers Splendid
Rolling Courses; IdeoI
loyouts at Pinehurst
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Maybe Santa Claus will drop a
set of wooden clubs in your Christ
mas stocking. Maybe you're one
of those opulent people who are
planning a trip somewhere South
after climate where, during winter
time, you may play golf sans
sweaters and heavy clothes. In
either case, if you don't know where
to go. you are candidate for
who's who" of Southern sports
a travelogue, as it were.
Of course there's always Miami,
the glamorouS spot where the play
boys go in winter and where the
revels after nightfall, the bang
tails in daytime and the dizzy Whirl
of sports in general will cost you
plenty, if you happen to go for
that sort of thing, There are lots
of more modest Florida spots, but
Miami is the center, the hub of the
whole thing in South Florida. And
South Florida (barring last winter
is that part of the State where you
may be sure of sunshine and warm
weather.
Rolling Courses at Augusta.
Then there's Augusta, Ga. with
a matchlesS winter climate, if you
don't like the hot sun of Miami
and yearn for a breeze through the
pines and a little rolling scenery
and rolling golf courses which you
won't get in Florida. There's Jack
sonville, Fla, with one of the best
courses anywhere at nearby Jack
sonville Beach. The name of the
course is Ponte Vedra. and it is one
of the best. The climate is very
much like that of Augusta and the
surf booms on the nearby beach,
where you won't want to go bathing
in winter unless the temperature
ICONS away up there.
In between Miami and Jackson
vile, along Florida's east coast,
there are numerous spots where you
can park brassie shot on an emer-
aid green and enjoy life. Daytona
Beach, with two fine courses; New
Smyrna, Vero Beach, Fort Pierce,
Stuart and Palm Beach all have
good courses. Palm Beach has one
of the best in the Seminole Club.
but you have to be introduced. The
same goes for that beautiful Boca
Ration Club, halfway between Palm
Beach and Miami. where Tommy
Armour holds forth as the pro. And
for Delray. where Bobby Cruick-
shank holds Gown the fort.
Florida Inlaid Links Good.
Inland there are plenty OF spots
where golf is the game Orlando
goes il for golf in big way. So
does Lakeland, and on the west
coast, at Tampa, ST. Petersburg,
Clearwater, Fort Myers and even
at little Everglades City you won't
be stuck with golf clubs and no
course on which to use them.
Florida really goes for golf in a
big way. At a guess, it's probably
the biggest sport in the State, unless
you call boss racing a sport, which
it isn't, considering the take you
pay before you start.
Augusta, of course, is tops for
those who don't like it too warm
in winter and want rolling country.
The temperature in the Georgia
town doesn't get up around the 85
degrees of Miami and it doesn't
often fall below As. The same goes
for the good golfng town of Aiken,
II miles away.
Farther north, you couldn't do
better, in a golf way. than get to
Pinehurst, $50 miles south of Wash
ington.
Pinehurst Golfers Delight.
Pinehurst is no winter resort in
January and February in the sense
that you could go bathing out of
doors at all times, or play golf with
out sweater when winter sWoops
down out of Medicine Hat and lays
blanket of snow across the
country.
But Pinehurst has three of the
best golf courses you could find any
where, some of the best hotels in
the land and an atmosphere that
reeks of golf. Indeed, golf is the
game there. They have polo, ten
mis- and other sports, but golf is the
game at Pinehurst.
All in all, if you have the itch
for the "snick" of a well-hit tee
shot and yearn to figure the speed
and roll of keen putting green,
it won't take long to get it. Or
much money either. For Washing
ton is close to all these spots.
Miami, on the new streanlined
trains, is 2012 hours away; Pine
hurst is overnight and Augusta is
only a little more, about IL hours.