I do not feel that I want to express my views on golfing architecture at any great length, although I have strong likes and dislikes both amongst individual courses and the different types of courses.

It might be imagined that as I am so whole-heartedly in favour of the 'All air route,'I should also be in favour of cross- bunkers. It was Taylor who said that there were no bunkers in the air: he is a great exponent of the 'All air route,'and he wants lots more cross-bunkers. I know he thinks that far too many of them have been done away with and too many have been put at the side. Well, I agree with him about making the ball do as much of its work as possible in the air, but I don't agree about the cross-bunkers. As a matter of fact I am all against cross-bunkers, and like plenty of hazards at the side.

It seems to me that you can never put a cross-bunker in quite the right place. At any rate I have not yet found the man who can. Cross-bunkers, when all is said, do not bother the good player. Almost their only use is to trap the man who half tops his shots, and the good player does not do that. But hazards skilfully placed at the sides of the fairway will always bother the best player in the world.

He is the man I want to see bothered. It makes the game so much more interesting.

I like dog-leg holes very much, and for my own particular benefit I like them best when the bend in them is towards the right. That is frankly because it suits the kind of shot I can play best. There are some very good courses where the bend is generally to the left. Addington is a good example. I think nearly all the dog-legged holes there turn to the left, and I do not like that so well. Everybody to his own taste, and I suppose the best and most interesting thing is to have some holes of both sorts.

I have a great admiration and liking for Mr. H. S. Colt's courses. I always feel that I can play any one on a 'Colt'course. Perhaps I have been lucky on them, but they are certainly very good. Mr. Colt does not build fortifications across the fairway, but he is very skilful in placing his side hazards so that they catch a shot that may be pretty good but is not quite good enough.

If I am asked which is my favourite course, I give my answer unhesitatingly- the old course at St. Andrews. I think it is the best, and if I have got to play a match which is really of some importance, that is where I want to play it. St. Andrews has got a character and features that you find nowhere else. What I like about it is this, that you may play a very good shot there and find yourself in a very bad place. That is the real game of golf. I don't want everything levelled and smoothed away so that by no possible chance can your ball take an unlucky turn in a direction you don't like. People think and talk too much about 'fairness.'

Of other famous courses I ought to be fond of Westward Ho!, as I had the good fortune to do very well there, but the course did not really appeal to me very greatly. It is better than Deal, and perhaps I am ungrateful to Deal also, as I won the Championship there. After St. Andrews, among the Championship courses I put Sandwich. Although in the days of the gutty there was so much said about the long driving needed there, it is under modern conditions just a little short, but it is a good sound test of golf and there is plenty of wind there, which is a great thing.

When it comes to inland courses there is for me only one, and that is Sunningdale. I think it is beyond any doubt the best, and very fine golf indeed. When I wrote that sentence there was one course that I had for the moment forgotten, and that is Gleneagles, but now that I have remembered it I stick to my original opinion. Certainly Gleneagles is a fine big course. Last summer it was still new and soft in places, especially around the green. That of course may be remedied with plenty of play. But it is a little too much of a long driver's course. It is a fine place enough for a slashing hefty young man, and after I had left it I felt for a little while that I had left a little of my punch behind me there; but I do not think that there is a very great deal in it when once the punching is done.

I have not seen a great many of the courses which are said to be very good and are now springing up in America. I did see the National, and admired it very much, and I often wonder why the American Championship cannot be held there. It seems to me that it must be the right place for it. I played at Myopia, too, and it is a very nice course, but I did not think it was another Sunningdale. However, I shall hope to know a good deal more about American courses after this summer.