The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . THE GRAND STAND.(Photo : W. W. Rouch, Strand, IV. C.) 47. THE GOLF HOUSE OF WESTWARD HO{Photo: Mr. Gorton, Bidefonl.) WESTWARD HO AND MODERN GOLFERS. By HORACE G. HUTCHINSON IT is not a little singular—there is, indeed,almost a poetical injustice about it—thatWestward Ho, the very first links on whichit was discovered that golf of the finest qualitycould possibly be played south of the Tweed, hasnow been left in a great measure stranded, as ina backwater, out of the current of modern golfladen with open and amateur cha
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . THE GRAND STAND.(Photo : W. W. Rouch, Strand, IV. C.) 47. THE GOLF HOUSE OF WESTWARD HO{Photo: Mr. Gorton, Bidefonl.) WESTWARD HO AND MODERN GOLFERS. By HORACE G. HUTCHINSON IT is not a little singular—there is, indeed,almost a poetical injustice about it—thatWestward Ho, the very first links on whichit was discovered that golf of the finest qualitycould possibly be played south of the Tweed, hasnow been left in a great measure stranded, as ina backwater, out of the current of modern golfladen with open and amateur championships andthe rest of the great events. It is, of course, byno means because the golf at Westward Ho isnot of the best that this not altogether lament-able fate has befallen it. It is by the accident ofits geographical position, at the end of a line thatleads to nowhere, that it enjovs this splendidisolation. But it is remarkable that a greenisolated to this degree should have been the seaside character, on which the golfing pioneerof the South began his exploits. For this alone,had it no other merits. Westwa
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