The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . kindof sandv deposit happens scarcely anywhereexcept at the debouchemcnt of a river into the sea,and evidently it is just such conditions that haveproduced the links of Westward Ho, by the com-bined agency of the River Torridge, which windslike a gleam of silver through Charles Kingsleysgreatest book, and of the tides of Bideford this soil the grass grows crisp and short, andafter the heaviest rainfall the surface dries is country made to the golfers order. It is not very far from the truth to say tha
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . kindof sandv deposit happens scarcely anywhereexcept at the debouchemcnt of a river into the sea,and evidently it is just such conditions that haveproduced the links of Westward Ho, by the com-bined agency of the River Torridge, which windslike a gleam of silver through Charles Kingsleysgreatest book, and of the tides of Bideford this soil the grass grows crisp and short, andafter the heaviest rainfall the surface dries is country made to the golfers order. It is not very far from the truth to say thatthe greatest of modern golfers learned his gameon the course thus created. If it be not strictlyexact to say that J. H. Taylor is the greatest ofmodern golfers, at least it is true to say that nogolfer of the day can be named who is distinctly 4§ THK SPORTS OF THE WORLD. greater than he, and that three only are to be placedon a fair level with him. These three are J. Braid,Herd, the champion for 1902, and H. Yardon, whoin 1903 won the championship for the fourth Taylor won the honouron three occasions. Wenever yet have had agolfer of championshipclass whose game waslearned on a green thatis not of the first-ratequalitv and the sandynature of Westward was brought upat St. Andrews. Braidlearned to play at Elicand Leven, on the northshores of the Firth ofForth; Vardon on thelinks near St. Heliers,courses are as truly of over any of the other three. Neither has West-ward Ho done badlv in the amateur class. Shewon the championship cup for the amateur com-petition in each of the first two years of its insti-tution, and it is always to be borne in mind inthis connection that her players never have theadvantage enjoyed by the local talent at , Prestwick, Muirfield, Hoylake, andSandwich respectivelv, in successive vears, ofplaying for a championship on their own familiargreen. Westward Ho, although it is so excellent,and though it is the first of the really ex
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