Cookie Jar Captures Royal County Down

The original charm of golf its simplicity and naturalness, cannot be too strongly emphasized; and this was in a great measure lost when the demand for fresh courses grew, since it then became necessary to imitate what in the first instance had come into being spontaneously. There could never in the case of a repetition be quite the same originality or, for the matter of that, the same variety, qualities which all the old courses possessed in a supreme measure. H.N. WETHERED and TOM SIMPSON