THE palyers over resort courses are becoming fastidious. They insist upon courses of merit. A dozen years ago when a hotel was opened up for the season the boss would send out the hired man with a scythe to cut the greens before the 'bus came in with the first arrivals. But they can't succeed with the old style hotel course in these days. The players refuse to accept poor playgrounds, and although it is costly business to build and maintain a course, yet it seems to be good buiness for the proprietors of the golf hotels are prospering.

For example consider the best known resorts in America today, and you will find that the proprietors are exerting every effort to the improvement and maintenance of their golf courses. The guests insist on modern golf.

Pick up any advertisement and you will find the golf course advertised almost as prominently as the hotel itself. But aside from the actual necessity of the hotel links, the amount of its up-keep might be applied to advertising and yet possess but a fractional value of the publicity provided by golf.