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Show GOLF. Touuy marks the opening of lUs roarili .season of gnlt ai iho Country club. NerJy all I he old guard will bo preei v.. It has been a Icug winter, win-ter, clubs are rusty, caddies lazy and good right arms are sou aj the utcin cut-oif. The number of balls that will carom off the giape arbor into the unfindable hence will be somotning scandalous, scanda-lous, and the scores well, never mind. But wo all will be happy. Piactice, Utah sunshine, and the sacred privilege of rebuking one's caddy will soon chloroform the scores. Blessed is he with the good eye; for he shall soon shine in the "A" class. t5 O The golfer who makes a bogey score over the links this season wil do it because he has played golf as it should be played. There will be no more driving of three or four balls from the first tee in a wild effort to make one climb San Juan hill; no more scraping a nice little hole behind the ball on a bad lie in the fair greens, nor ' ' breaking down a few cords of sage brush when off the course. So the greens committee decrees. The boundaries of the fair greens ars to be designated by stakes, and the haughty player j who slices or pulls into Nevada's best product will be up against it with a bang. This is as it should be. Violations of the commonest rules of the game have been so generally violated by all of us as to make adherence to them the exception ex-ception rather than the rule. Good lies are scarce, awfully scarce, but a golfing devotee who has not learned in three seasons to play a ball from a bad lie is surely beyond hope. af a? af Another thing the greens committee has decided de-cided on is to divide the competition for the handicap handi-cap cup into three playing seasons. The first probably early in June; the second the latter part of August, and the final in October or early in November. These dates are only approximate, merely outlining the general idea of the Bcrap for that trophy. Some of last season's "B" class players are very liable to make the moguls look like a Carrie Nation saloon the first part of the season, and the fight for this cup under the new arrangement ought to result in some wild mix-ups. mix-ups. tv v v Instructor Leonard has been re-engaged and will be here within two or three weeks. Mr. Leonard can teach more real golf in one strenuous strenu-ous hour than the average "profesh" in a week, and I am glad the gentlemanly instructor is coming com-ing back. He did a great deal for the game last season. Witness the improvement in the play of Bob Officer, Steiner andtothers. Eighty- four for class "A" qualification for the men will look lonesome tor a few weeks. But once the kinks get out of the driving arms, they will begin to reach for it. The women's qualification figures will remain as they were last season. A. FOOZLER. |