The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
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LINKS OF THE QUEENS COUNTY GOLF CLUB.
On next Saturday the Queens county members
hope to play over the heightened course. Every
thing is ready. but 1t was deemed best by tho
Greens Committee to wait for rain and then to
roll the new greens well with the hye-ton roller.
The first three holes, as shown in the map. arc
the additions to the former course. They are the
longest on the links, which will avoid all posi-
BILE chance OF delays at the tees in a largo COM
petition and enable the golfers TO be we'll up to
their work before the tricky and shorter holes
arc reached. As rearrangcd the club has the
Longest nine'hole link so on Long Island. the play:
il only = 755 yards. Dyker Meadow 2.6s1. and
Wcsthrook $500.
A feature OF the course is the number of haz-
a poor drive. On the first hole the bunker IL at
the shorter distance. and there are splendid lies
for the brasscy after the drive. Bogie Will be
five. The rail fences that cross the line Of play
have been stifencd, so that there is little chance
One OF these ienccs will catch a topped drive Ee
from the second tSa tee, tee: s sIi'I d the hadi EpP nSnisbe es
from the third tee will likely 90 into the road,
but II The first bunker y passed on th 1;s stre sagne
that guards the putting. green. A five and seven
should be the tally after the two are played:
land. the thick turf giving good lies. The golf;
ers walk through II %turnstile and cross the road
The fourth green is often carried on the drive.
but il ovorplayed the hall is apt to fly over the
soS \ d ecyve fencf by a II special rs 6 i rr rSle. WSi sSc proSides
that a bali sent over the back fence must, DO
brought in at a right angle and dropped. WITH o g
tho hole a three. The sunken road and fence
fifth hole, but IL just oyer. there Is a small drain
on the far side that will trap a rolling, ball. a
15O-yard drive will be safe and the hole should
The sixth hole is a '.'nerve.shockcr" to the
faint ! cart db S9l fences { The ht t tee b ,sses a d ii0 yards yals;
by a plateau; A drive short of $50 yards viii
s :sssS s's sissssd !" e. qs ss, f lie sos WI + b ssiis s;i
boyle. The seventh hole Is also a terror,
but there are high rewards Enni .n for ,nS a Ips srfisSt
green is on a second one, slightly lower. a steep
gully, with a road and two bankod.up stone walls
At TIE lowest dep ob ! l SaIs; a SsiT tss b the tw of the the
drive dsi "f but unless L the ball fails Very dead it WIN
hole In three, which IL the boyle.
For tho eighth hole. $40 yards. the tee Is on
sunken road must DO rocrossod, and is now faced
on tho near side by scattered trees; There 10 q
iss, Ptb Set SalP w .hH 90 pui5 ntn Fth sre Wood ana at Il the ssP ba tEo
i lies. or to call II q lost ball. This 4 Is 1, a Nv hole hole;
to the right. The grove to the right Of this Is
an open one and In bounds, SO that by choosing
a line the hall may DO sent back safely to the
clear turf. Four would DO par in strokes,
No name has been ssioct I'D as 1,sy st In FOR s sns hr ~
the remaining holes and the names they will
probably bear on the new card follow; Dixie.
$50 yards; Longfellow. 585; Roadside 15o;
Valley, sio; Toingacre, 300. The boyle, figures
mentioned have not been finally, adopted by the
captain, thinks they are about right; They
gives boyle Of, forty-One. Tho medal-play rec.
ord for the old course was ninety-one, for
eighteen holes, made by Y. G.. Cunningham
when he won the Murdock Cup last November
who defeated Tappan in tho finals last fall by
two up and one to play.