After three years of strictly winter-rules wartime turf-cutting, the golf train is once more feeing up on a formal basis, under the guidance of Coach Bill Barclay, who just completed the first phase of his first year at Harvard as basketball mentor.

Last spring, six coach-less clubbers got off to a late start, spent only three weeks on "Operation Fairways," but nevertheless managed to bag a first place in the New England intercollegiate tourney at Wachusett Country Club. Though the boys outstroked Andover, their informal arrangement brought them to defeat in a match with Exeter, when the majority of the team failed to arrive in time for the too off.

From that hardy band, Fred Mulcahy, last year's New England intercollegiate champ, and Oakes Ames have graduated, leaving behind Bill Rickenbacker, Walt Butler, Larry Gray, and Paul Coste. All of these veteran clubbers, with the possible exception of Coste, last year's appointed captain, are definitely looking forward to pitching and putting when the team starts taking its practice shots immediately after the Easter vacation.

Scheduled for the spring is a "round-robin" tourney at Winchester Country Club with Brown, M.I.T., and Holy Cross, and other battles with M.I.T. and Bowdoin. Until Barclay's squad actually invades the links for rehearsals, however, no one in golfing circles is making any club-house prognostications.

Barclay comes to his present task of pulling some 25 hopeful linksmen down to somewhere near par golf from Michigan, where he was state amateur champ before the war, and coached for five years.