[Pete_Pittock]

   Researching Alderwood Country Club (Macan) at the OGA offices I ran across a transcript of an article by Don Moe, who was a Walker Cup teammate of Bobby Jones during the year of the slam.
  An interesting excerpt is "After the Sassoon match we proceeded to St. Andrews for the British Amateur. To our surprise we found St. Andrews hard and dry due to a long winter which turned into a hot summer in mid-May, a most unusual situation because the golf course is the beneficiary of the frequent squalls from the North Sea.
 "We found it impossible to pitch to the greens and resorted to run up shots whether from 200 to 20 hards from the green. We also looked for golf balls that had been in the water for some time but were still in good shape. We found we had better control with these fairly dead balls on the hard surfaces of St. Andrews.
 " I feel sure this was the first and only time that Bob Jones won a major championship playing with old second hand golf balls on the holes that required a fairly dead ball for control, but it worked for all of us." 

[Tom Jefferson]

Peter;
That is indeed an interesting statement!

Almost the polar opposite of the commercial exhortations of today....' buy the longest, hottest, balls.......' and the spongy green turf that those balls are used on.

And it's consistent with the fescue regime here, where fast and firm here is fastest and firmest in the late fall, after a long dry summer and a sunny but cool fall........around November the ball is rolling all over the place!

Good to see you here recently,

Tom

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