Instead of the golf architect taking links land as the example to copy, he is now forced to consider the idiosyncrasies of the modern ball. Instead of nature dominating golf, it is now dominated by the mechanical devices of man. This is the unhealthy state to which golf has arrived, and the psychological tendency is to make further inroads upon nature's side of the balance, for once the human mind succeeds in overcoming natural hazards in life it never remains satisfied until it has devised means to do away with them altogether. MAX BEHR