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...incidentals like caddy hire,* new balls, refreshments, etc., etc. The company will warm his golfing cockles. Two such trips have been arranged for by Charles Stewart, Cunard's Boston man, himself a linksman. He has visited all the courses of note that will be used, stubbly St. Andrews, rainy Troon, spacious Gleneagles, lovely Muirfield, and found them universally anxious to welcome George Hiram. One boat will sail May 29, the other June...
...plays. The courses string out among the dunes like a ribbon spattered green and gray-green with the white flecks of bunkers through it, so that they say you can play a ball all the 20 miles from Ayr up to Ardrossan without leaving the fairway. Last week, at Troon, which is hard by Prestwick* and not so far southwest of Glasgow, Britain's golfing women inarched among the dunes for their championship. In their own counties, they were most of them little champions, but among them there was easy-going young Joyce Wethered, who, last year...
...Sound advice, from a certain diminutive Carnoustie man who teaches golf near Chicago, to persons going to golf at Troon, is this: "Gae oot on the fi-rrst nine o' Troon, an' gae in on the second nine o' Pr-restwuk. Hae yer lonch, an' gae oot on the fir-rst nine o' Pr-restwuk, comin' in on the last nine o' Troon. Aye, an' ye'll pay only one gr-reen...
Young Mr. A. G. Havers who led Hagen, Smith, Kirkwood by the nose at Troon last June for the British open golf championship, has proved himself no flash in the pan. Shortly after, at Gleneagles, he led another brilliant field. Last week, at St. Albans, Verulam, Havers won the ?450 stake with 75-67-142. The previous course record, held by Braid...
...indeterminate reason is consistently described by sporting writers as a genial, well-met character, has called the English poor sports. Hagen recently lost the British open golf championship by one stroke. By implication he attributed the loss to the English ruling against "punched" clubs on the eve of the Troon Tournament. Apparently, Hagen has not learned that reticence is synonymous with the graceful loser. His characterization of the English carries a back spin...