... CERTAIN STARTERS FOR ASCOT: BY THE TOUT A few of those upon whom the prudent will no doubt keep their eye during this week, for they are all likely to be in or near the money. For instance, Mr. McElligott is the American manager for Mr. R. S. Clark, who was not here- in person to see his Galatea II. win the One Thousand and the Oaks. Tant Mieux is lucky Mr. Peter Beatty's smart two-year-old, ...

... BARTON-ON-SEA GOLF CLUB- -BY MEL The Barton-on-Sea Golf Club, New Milton, Hants, is a seaside course ten miles east of Bournemouth, facing the western end of the Isle of Wight and the Needles. The spot is ideally situated on the cliffs in a holiday country that is still completely unspoiled. The club was founded in 1925 as a nine-hole course, and later, in 1931, designed as a full eighteen ...

... IZZ-- TTlM--Zr 'te Qraxo^xx, t wheaTley golf club, doncaster- -BY MEL This excellent Wheatley Golf Club at Armthorpe, Doncaster, was formed in 1912, and in those days was in Wheatley Park, the seat of Sir William Cooke. Five years ago the present course at Armthorpe was laid out by George Duncan, the former Open champion. The course is well constructed and is quite dry even after heavy rain, ...

... ,1U. I X ii XXIX X^i-Xl THE ROYAL CROMER GOLF CLUB- -BY MEL In the days when golf-courses had to be taken pretty much as Nature made them without the aid of make-up, Cromer was a links of some considerable fame. The eighteen-hole course laid out by Old Tom Morris in 1895 was the scene of the Ladies' Open Championship ten years later, which was won by Miss Bertha Thompson. Since that time ...

... -By MEL SOUTHPORT AND AINSDALE GOLF CLUB- MEL When the Southport and Ainsdale Club first came into existence in 1906, no one dreamed that it would one day house the biggest international event of the year namely, the Ryder Cup, which was played there in 1933 and 1937, a choice which singles it out as being one of the finest tests of golf in the world. This is in part due to its length. ...