Fuller reports of the British open golf championship at Hoylake, which was won by Alfred Padgham, the young Sundridge Park professional, show the unusual reliance this astonishing player placed on his putter in winning the championship with an aggregate of 287 for the 72 holes. Padgham has always been' noted for his putting, but in the British open his game was more distinguished. by ever before. shots in the game than in any game during the previous six months, and he constantly found himself faced with the task of retrieving shots from the rough and bunkers. But his putter never failed and it was the only club In which he had any confidence. The one stroke—a putt—which won him the game was played with a crowd of 10,000 around him. From a distance of five yards he holed for a birdie three and victory after starting a stroke down on two other players and following a course which progressed more through the rough than on the fairways. If there is any one lesson which American golfers have taught the British golfers it is the importance of approach play and green play, Most good golfers nowadays drive about the same distance and use an iron with about the Jsame success, but the approach and the putt are America's specialized contribution and British golfers have not been slow to profit. After all, there Is no difference between a long: drive end a putt: they each count one. Padgham, as his past year's record has shown, is a master of this type of play and he will go down as one of the giants of the game,
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