The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-28
LINKS WITHIN A LINKS.
MANI NOVEB CHANCES ar TIE
BALTUSROL GOLF GROUNDS.

to Ada variety 20 the Piny-Features OF the
Ptan-Opeu Events Tor R~gnrch-Tucker RE-
SIGNS at Dyker N~1endow-Hnrbor nlii's Book.
There was good eolhng on Saturday on nearly
every links In tho NJ. q. A. circuit, for tho cold
and sharp northerly wind dried out the moisture
and stiffened up the turf nearly as effcctually
as a frost would have done. From this timo on
there will likely DO n crowd on each links on
every fluo day. although 1t will be golnpg under
difficulties. Tho temporary greens will DO in
use until about April is, and, as there arc
changes under way at nearly every course,
there will DO only few opportunities to
try for records or to play except for practice.
Both the Morris county and Tuxedo links arc
closed. Tho one course where temporary greens
arc not used is at the Rocknway Hunting Club.
The turf there is on such light and porous soil
that water does not remain on the surface.
March has three events booked that will attract
many players from this vicinity. They are tho
spring tournament Mt the Palmetto Golf Club,
Aiken; the opening of the Atlantic City Coun-
try Club links, and the annual spring tourna-
ment of the Ocean County Hunt and Country
Club at Lakewood.
At nearly all large clubs In this country two
courses are kept up, tho full course and q
shorter ono for the women and Junior players.
The lattcr, as at Shinnecock Hills. is usually Of
nine holes. and, where this separate course is
not maintained. as at Ardsley, there are differ
ent tees for the women and junior golfers. This
idea has boon improved on at Baltusrol. where
there will DO two eiehteen.hole links, one of
5000 yards and a short one of 8. 12l yards, so
dovetailed into each other that there will
be only twenty-five greens and fourteen of these
will be used in common by both courses. Ex-
tremely long tournament links are badly adapted
to the average player in this country. where
there is no Scotch twilight to stretch out tho
afternoon, and 80 enable business men to play
the full circuit on their return from the city.
Therefore the Baltusrol Greens Committee has
planned to make tho two courses as much q
unit as possible. only switching of tho short
course at intervals to avoid the long
est holes and enable the slow players
to keep out of the way of the faster ones. The
has planned the new system in a
thorough way. The entire property at Baltus-
rol slopes to the southwest. protected by the
mountain at the north. while its boundaries are
all fringed with forest, although there is not a
tree left on the fair green. The two courses
begin at the same toe, and, should two pairs
meet at the starting point, the two playing the
long course have the right Of way. They should
drive tho first bunker. 100 yards. and on tho
second stroke leave the first hole OF the short
course, 173 yards, clear for the shorter course
players to approach. The latter, after holing
~'ss 'ee'e ssSah pAeJ W tho oiu tooSh tbO
second green. 2s3 yards. passing a bunker and
stream 1877 yards away. Meantime, q. their
second stroke. the long.course players should
have crossed n stream go yards from the toe. n
roadway GO yards further and a path 80 yards
beyond. After which they have a clear green to
the hole, 24O yards distant, straightaway, and
in view Of the clubhouse. with the fence OF the |
main roadway as n continuous hazard to the
Tho second iong-course hole is $50 Yards
'ipnill for 1856 yards to the corner. with
{ tn. fs apsroa sS s ,hs left rb as third E hazard q i u6 (Ss
in the Woods" is Sss yards ' to a green Tf s sure
rounded on three sides by a forest; Here the
in advance. The drive is parallel with the for.
est. $50 Yards to the turn. for the green is
fair run to the ball should enable it to clear the
corner in one. giving a clear approach TO tho
corner on the drive is equivalent to being bun.
kersd. The next hole is 200 yards to the
j. j., s67 ySrds. THEN comes The sIs sh'l hois:
G from i tSs teo with The a cou Sqssef asa ios di ysrss
after the seventh tee. both using the same
bunker 6rssn r. at j., 7l ! Yards aaa The The, shorts reach their
tain to The right toa green in the cedars. 200
yards, They play down again from the precl-
yards distant. and which is also the seventh
hole Of tho long course; The next hole is 100
the hole on the mountain. with tho cedar forest
to the right to punish a pulled ball. Then comes
lnc spIlIk uoie, lOZ yHTus, with q grove on
either side, making It the ~sportiest hole OF the
course. The pond hole follows. $50 yards long,
The next piay is Of $50 yards sH' to a Il lie ei in 'front.' ont
OF the water bunker. then 1873 yards up a steep
hole - tho l meue earrio sR strsir fbiaS Snsgn 'h me- ,w mn1nl
tain 233 yards to the valley, and then the play
is AZ Yards toward Westfeld.. through level.
low ground. with a fence to the right. beginning
Mt a corner $50 yards from the tee. At $50
Is a stream which again has to be crossed
!" Long Ton" tho 5o6.yard hole. which has
ditch crossing diaGonally the line Of play at i25
Yards irc and a fence to the right the en-
: down the valley, along a, forest 200
have to carry in order to gain access to their
seventeenth green. 100 yards to the left. guarded
have gone straight down the valley $40 yards,
;rosslng a running stream at $40, with a pond
vii enable a game ending at the sixteenth hole
o finish before the ,gallery." The next hole
measures $50 yards. Tho eighteenth hole ia 1
'ommon with the two courses. II is liz yards {
and pit. with the green 500 yards over all and
lose to the clubhouse. This hole contains more ,
on May IL, Is, and Ii will be played
ver the short course.
Samuel Tucker has resigned the place of pro.
essional at tho Dyker Meadow Golf Club. to =
AXE effect on March 81. Tho Greens Committee 1
RS not engaged his successor, although there is
runor that Mungo Park, Jr., may be appointed. ,
The year book OF the Harbor Hill Golf Club
hows that 1t has LOG members. mado up of 100 \
ctive, 20 women, and 6 junior members. The =
ook is tastefully bound md printed. The fol.
wing Is the makeup of the committees for the n
cason: N
doyerning1 ", J. Cruikshank. Malcolm Graham,
f. " vi = hopne' pavld Hay. y. M; Lawrence. H.. @. Y
. Kelley. =
Greens-J. A. Morton. Z. NJ. Lawrence. and N. Ora. .
am, Jr.
Einance-W. J. CruIkshank and A. r. Kelley.
coke. @
House-Miss Adeline X. Robinson, rhairman; Mrs.
Graham, Jr, David Hay. NJ. Graham, Jr. W. j. d
The Harbor Hill golfers will be in possession
a new clubhouse and an eighteen.hole course L.
the spring. n
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