GOLF.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 670, 8 January 1903, Page 8

GOLF.

The management of the 'World’s Fair, St. Louis, proposes to arrange “ world’s championships ” on the Glen Echo links, St. Louis, during the currency of the great exhibition. To this end the golf champions of all countries are being invited to compete. A 50,000d01. club-house is being erected on the links in anticipation of the events. The Glen Echo course is 6019 yards long, and has tram and train communication with St, Louis.

Mr Hoiace Hutchinson contributes an entertaining article to “Golf Illustrated’’ on “ Hypnotism in Golf.’’ According to Mr Hutchinson there is a great deal of hypnotism, personal and suggested, conscious and unconscious, in the game. He instances the man who casually remarks

Brown Colt by Hotchkiss —Armilia, purchased by Mr G. G. Stead for 7000 guineas.

on the difficulty of the lie or the perils of the shot his opponent is about to play, clearly with the idea of suggesting difficulties that may cause the player to lose confidence. Then there is the influence of certain holes and certain people, not to speak of implements of the. game. There are men who always play with confidence, and therefore with success, with a particular club or ball. There are men hypnotised by certain holes, ’fake the water-hole at Bondi. Put a dozen men to drive down an unobstructed paddock, and they will probably everyone easily carry from 150 yards upwards off the tee, but put the same men to drive across the Bondi lagoon, and a goodly proportion of them will go in, and continue going in, though the carry is only 130 yards.

Personal instances will occur to everyone of particular holes, presenting no abnormal difficulties, at which they frequently come to grief, and it is the same with people. One of the best players in Sydney can never play his best against a certain other player, and regards himself as practically beaten when drawn against him. Put him against another man, and he will play a game brilliant enough perhaps to have beaten the first.