New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-27

| FACILITIES PROVIDED FOR BOTH BEGINNERS AND
ExPERrs-soME NOVEL. FEATURES IN THEIR
| CoNsTRUcTIoN-MANY CLUBS WATCHING
THE OUTCOME OF THE PLAN.
In endeavoring to meet the demands OF It's four
| hundred members the Greens Committee OF the
| Baltusrol Coli Club has accomplished result
which. In the committees opinion is unprecedented
/, in the history OF golf IN this country. This Is
| nothing more nor less than the construction OF
/ two eightcen-hole courses so dovetailed together
| that. while situated practically upon the same
| ground each ministers to the requirements OF a
| distinct class of players
| The problem which confronted the committee
| was one over which many clubs have expended
| considerable thought 1t was how best to provide
| for those whose skill and experience enable them
| to play rapidly from hole to hole. and at tho same
time to take into consideration the needs OF women
| players and those who are beginning the game.
| This the Baltusro Club has endeavored to do, and
| the result Of its work will be watched with great
| interest by every club opposed by similar diff
| Guilty
| Junior courses for women and beginners have
| been proved by experience to be thoroughly I'M
popular. No one likes to be reegated TO a side
| lot and made to play where there is no oppor-
| tunity OF seeing and initiating the more skfu
members OF the club. on the other hand the
engthen.ng OF the various in this country
| has resulted in many vcxatious delays to those
playing the longer holes. buffers so often
block the way. Then. too. these longer courses
are ill-adapted to the needs OF the ordinary bust
ness man. who has time perhaps for a short hours
tramp before dinner, and who feels keen dlsap
polntment II he cannot accomplish the entire cir
cult before dark Realizing this. the fundamental
idea ar the bottom OF the committees work was to
combine far possible two courses into one.
providing at once for expert and duncr the man
who possesses ample leisure well the one
devote only spare moments TO the game
HOW THE TWO LINKS ARE MADE
II the turf grows until August Baltusro will
have these two links in full operation. the long
one measuring 500 yards and the shorter one
SIPS yards. There will be but twenty-five greens
and fourteen Of these will be used in common by
both This will mean that the two have
been made unit as far as practicable. the shorter
course switching off at regular intervals only to
avoid the difficult holes and enable the less
slful players to keep out Of the way OF the faster
ones
II for example. two pairs OF players meet al the
first tee the on the long course have the right
OF way. They should clear the first bunker. 1870
yards away. and on the second stroke leave the
first short hole clear for the short-course players
The latter after boiling out, will then play to the
right and reach the second green 2S3 yards dis
tant. passing on the way a stream and bunker lg7
yards from the tee. Meantime. the long-course
players at their second stroke should have crossed
a stream. roadway and path. all calculated TO
make the hole difsult negotiate without con-
siderable skill. After this they will have a clear
road TO the green. $50 yards distant and in plain
view Of the clubhouse. with the fence OF the main
roadway a continuous hazard 10 the left and
about thirty yards from the central line OF play
The second hole IL uphill for ldb yards TO
the necessary approach shots. The third, known
as the Hole In the Woods. Is %3 yards TO green
surrounded three sides by a forest.
At this pon, the two courses reunite. with the
short players well in advance. The drive is along
cleared. but a good and a little to the ball
will enable player TO clear the corner In single
anTc sV rc out Of tbg corner Of the forest is
equivalent 10 being bunkered.
courses. With the seventh. the lines Of play again
dverge. though both have the same bunker. at 10
yards. The short players reach their green by
playing up hill 10 the right. and the eighth green
b r2nen IL the y soyaeib Of the oHs % M
abling the players here to pass their less rapid
companions.
THE SPORTIEST HOLE IN THE COURSE
The next hole is 12o yards to the bunker, and 2S3
yards over all to the hole hill, with cedar
forest to the right punish pulled ball. Then
comes the sportest hole on the course measuring
only 1872 yards but with grove either side TO
punish the least divergence from the straight and
narrow way. on the next hole good drive is
necessary TO clear lake situated halfway up a
a view Of New-York Harbor and much Of the sur
The next is 80 yards to a tee I'm front Of tho
water bunker. then le yards up steep hill to
mountain. The twelfth hole carries the player
down the mountain side again 223 yards to
valley. Then the line OF play is AZ yards toward
Westheld through level low ground. with fence
to the right. After this comes Long Tom the
5OD-yard hole which has always been the feature OF
the old course This has a diagonal ditch crossing
the line Of play 2j yards from the tee and fence
to the right running the entire distance and twenty
yards from the lire % play.
At the next hole the drive is down the valley
along a forest 200 yards TO corner which the short
players have to carry in order TO gain access 10
their seventeenth green. The long players have
gone straight down the valley $40 yards, crossing
a running stream at $40 yards with pond and a
forest TO the right and a ditch to the left. The
next hole $50 yards. crosses stream and bunker
300 yards from the tee. with the same green the
short players have already passed
The eighteenth hole is common with the two
courses II is ll2 yards TO a stream and 50 yards
further to a sand pit. with the green 800 yards over
all
The entire course a: Baltusrol slopes to the
southwest. protected by a mountain AT the north,
and while the boundaries all fringed with for
there ia not tree left on the fair green
Briefly stated the two courses are the same from
the third to the seventh holes. and also from the
ninth 10 the sixteenth. finally uniting on the home
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