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Sixteen and eighteen-year-old golfers are crossing clubs with “veterans” of thirty or more and outdriving and outplaying them through the fairway and through the green. If Canadais ever to produce an International champion, which she has not done up to date, it will be by the young man route. The moral of all this is that youth should be encouraged in every way by club executives and given every opportunity to perfect its game and not be discouraged as unfortunately in the past has been altogether too often the case, especially amongst someof the older clubs. In golf as in every other sport youth to-day will not be denied. ‘Old Timers” maynot like it but they 323 324 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. 17, No. 5 ean no longer prevent it and in the bestinterests of the future of the game in the Dominion,it is a good thing they can’t. Since the above was written late English papers to hand quite feature an article by Sir Ernest Holderness, one of England’s crack amateur golfers and a former champion, in which he blamesthe failure of Great Britain to win a single Walker Cup team match, on the restrictions laid upon golf by the English schools. “Golf accoutrement,” says Holderness,“is considered bad formina school- boy’s locker at Eton, Harrow or Rugby. Those who would dabble in this re- prehensible diversion must squeeze in a surreptitious round after hours. Hence it happens that the American amateur is a polished stylist, a finished golfer, whenhis British cousin is just beginning to take up the game seriously.” After all “catch ’em young” is the only recipe if you want to develop super-golfers. St. Andrews Shades of the glorious golfing past! The British Open Champion- to Enact ship is scheduled to be played at auld St. Andrews in 1933 but Charge for the Royal and Ancient has notified the officials of St. Andrews Spectators. that unless an admittance fee is charged spectators, the cham- pionship will be awarded another club. For hundreds of years the links at St. Andrews have beenfree alike to the inhabitants of the ancient burgh and visitors. A special act of the Imperial Parliament will be required to legalize an admittance charge to the courses and the Town Council of St. Andrews has decided, rather reluctantly, to petition Parliament to enact the necessary legislation, which will be moreor less of a costly character. So golf is at last to be commercialized in the very cradle of the game. It seems a pity, but the staging of golf championships now-a-dayscosts a lot of money and associations have to provide themselves with the pounds, shillings and pence or dollars and cents, as the case maybe, necessary for their proper conducting. It is only a very few years ago, that the Royal Canadian Golf Association, enacted an entrance fee to witness the Open and Amateur Cham- pionships of Canada. The United States was the first country to make a gate charge and there some $25,000 is raised every year by this means. This season in Canada a sum probably in the neighbourhood of $6,000 was collected: by the R.C.G.A. from the galleries which witnessed the Open at Mississauga and the Amateur at the Royal Montreal last month. The Lady The lady golfers of Canada will have their innings from Sep- Golfers Will tember 28th to October 9th, when for two glorious we2ks of Now be in golf they will compete in the Open Championship at the Rose- the Picture. dale Golf Club, Toronto, September 28th to October 3rd, and the Close Championship at Lambton, Toronto, October 5th to ' 9th. Mere man would never think of playing two strenuous championships one week after another but the “lidies” seem to enjoy such a gargantuan feast of golf and come throughthe ordeal as fresh as the proverbial paint. As the U.S. Ladies’ Championship is to be played at the Country Club, Buffalo, which is only, comparatively speaking, a short motor or train run from Toronto, the week previous (September 21st-27th) to the Canadian Open it is certain that there will be a record number of entries from the United’ States. Then there is the added feature of the entry of Miss Enid Wilson, the famous long-hitting British Close and Open Champion. It is some years since an outstanding Old Country lady player has been seen on the courses of Canada and Miss Wilsonis assured of a particularly hearty weleome and is bound to drawlarge galleries. The pick of the Canadian women, headed by Miss Ada Mackenzie, a former champion, will do battle at Rosedale and are September, 1931 CANADIAN GOLFER 325 in high hopes that they can stem the U.S. and British invasion, but they will have to play par golf or better to do so. The handicap for the Open is 14, and the entrance fee $6.00. The Close Championship at Lambton, as its name implies, is restricted to Canadian players. Entrants must be members of clubs in affiliation with the Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union whose handicaps are not more than 25. Six months residence in Canada qualifies a player to enter. Record fields for both events are already assured and both will be of a most colourful character.