Sport: After Jones

(See Front Cover) There are 6,000 golf courses in the U. S., 2,000 in the British Empire, only 1,000 in the rest of the world. Because two-thirds of the world's golf is played on U. S. soil, it is not surprising that U. S. golfers have the reputation of being the world's best.

It was not always so. At the turn of the Century, when the first rule of U. S. golf was to purchase a $40 scarlet coat with brass buttons, golf was the pastime of the "400." Its players were not only kidded...

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