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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
The wealth of whins, the boldness of
some of the carries, the knolls and hil
locks of Prestwick, the diversity in
shape, size and undulations of the put
ting greens, all have been noted by golf
ers in their stories of Prestwick. The
cardinal bunker at the third hole, the
seventeenth with its unique second shot
after a drive which must be far and to
one spot on the fair green, all these
have been spoken of in books and ai
tides. At some of the longest holes the
fair way is little more than thirty yards
wide, so that with this classical instance
before us, who can complain of the nar
rowness of the fairway of any American
course.
Then to Prestwick St. Nicholas, a very
easy short course. Then to Turnberry,
a very excellent public course, owned by
the Kail way Hotel Company, one of the
few courses in Scotland where Sunday
golf is permitted. It is a short journey
south of Ayr. After that to 'Edinburgh
and some golfing at Gullane, where
there are two . very line eighteen-hole
courses which have lately been remodel
ed. The putting greens at Gullane were
the best we had played on so far. Then
to North Berwick, where I enjoyed some
of the best golf of the tour. To mark
the holes of North Berwick is to give
them the title "very good," others
"good", and only a few the judgment
of "fair." It may be of interest to
American golfers to know that at North
Berwick, the first and eighteenth holes
cross ana yet no lault is round. Ji a
golfer here found one hole crossing
another, he would refuse to play with
out taking out extra insurance, but there
are very few accidents.
Passing to St. Andrews, where the
open championship was played June
22nd to 24th, I had another nine days of
golf. Of all the courses I visited, St.
Andrews was the most worthy of study
to those who wished to make a fine
score and as I had entered for the cham
pionship and was desirous of making a
good showing in the tournament, I made
a particularly close study of holes. St.
Andrews goes out and comes back,
everybody at least knows that. Now
the bunkering of the course led the pro
fessionals, at many of the holes, to de
feat the object of the committee, for
coming home they would play the fairway
of the holes going out, thus avoiding the
bunker problems and opening up an easy
way to the green. But that's another
story.
I found at St. Andrews a great deal of
hero worship. The crowds were all
Braid, Taylor, Vardon and a few others,
and seemed to think it preposterous that
any of the young and rising golfers of
Great Britain should accomplish any
thing against those giants of golf.
Smith's record round of seventy-one was
forgotten when Duncan equalled it and
Duncan was left to himself as Smith had
been, after he had failed in his next
round. Newspapers gave more space in
their reports of the tournament to make
excuses for the indifferent play of the
heroes than they did in giving credit or
praise to the outsiders who played well.
Being accustomed to the admirable ar
rangements that the United States Golf
Association makes for its open cham
pionship in relation to the posting of
scores and giving everybody the squarest
possible deal, certain happenings at St
Andrews deserve mention. For instance
tne scores were printed after the day's
play and during the progress of the
i lay, it was next to impossible to find
out how the golfers were going; all in
formation, except the posting on a small
blackboard of the lowest scores, being
kept religiously within the tent of the
Committee. Eveiybody seeimd to be
asking everybody else how fco-and-so
had finished with little hope of enlighten
ment. Again, the great players and the
great names in the competition, were
followed by large crowds and they were
taken care of by flagmen and others, but
the poor struggling player was left to
himself, and however well he might be
going, would at any moment be held up
by crowds which had just left a favorite"
pair or which were racing to follow
another favorite player. Such discrimi
nation in favor of certain players struck
me us being unfair, to say the least. At
the presentation of prizes, I made every
effort to be on hand to receive mine, but
the arrangements were so poor and the
crowd handled so badly, that it was im
possible for me to reach Lord Kinross
who distributed the prizes when the
names were called. Lord Kinross said
something about the shyness of the
golfers from across the water in not
coming forward and later when he was
told the facts he expressed regret.
One can imagine the difference if a Brit
ish professional came here and won a
prize in the open championship under
the auspices the United States Golf As
sociation. During my stay at St. An
drews, I was treated with great courtesy.
and kindness.
After having had a favorable oppor
tunity of making a study of the famous
British players, there is not the slightest
doubt in my mind that if the profession
al golfers of the United States had the
chance to play over such courses fre
quently as those on the other side,
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