The San Francisco call., 1899-01-28
GOLF rs BOOMING.
tract Large Gatherings This
Season.

The popularity of golf and the number
of links are constantly growing. For eX-
ample, in Riverside, besides several priv
ate links, there are two golf clubs-the
Riverside Polo and Golf Club, of which
M. Z. Flowers is secretary, and the Pa
chappa Golf Club, of which Perrin E.
White is secretary. The Pachappa Golf
Club was organized in November last ana
already has seventy-eight members. II
has a nine-hole course, the distances be-
ing 2S5, $50, 30, 2S5, 275, 300 800, 205 and 210
yards; total, 24S0 yards. The club has no
home as yet, and therefore will not hold
any open tournaments this season; but
programme containing fifteen events
has been prepared for members-ten OF
these events being for gentlemen and five
for ladies. The first of a series of five
tournaments for gentlemen against Col
onel Bogey was held on January 20, and
others will be held on February q, March
%, April 20 and May Is. Tournaments in
medal play for gentlemen will be held on
February 8, March 8, April and May T.
Those who take first or second place in
these contests will be entitled to compete
IN the tenth tournament, match play, on
May 30, for silver cup.
Tournaments, medal play, for the ladies
of the Pachappa Golf Club, will be held
on February 2, March 2, March 30 and
April q. The fifth tournament will be at
match play and will take place on May 25.
In Southern California golf enjoys a
terest than in Central California. The
clubs at Riverside have already been men,
toned. There is also a fiourishing club
at Santa Catalina. The links of the Santa
Catalina Island Golf Club are among the
most beautiful and picturesque in the
country. They are situated behind Ava
lon in great amphitheater of hills. from
the tops of which many canyons, like
streams of verdure, run down to the
course. The club house stands on a lit
tie mesa overlooking the links, and near
1t is the first teeing ground. The distance
to the first green is 210 yards. The green
is named Santa Cruz, and is on the fur
ther side of a canyon beneath the hills
The bogey score is four. The second hole,
protected by a high wire bunker that runs
across the whole width of the course. The
bogey score is three The third teeing
ground is in the entrance to little can
up to the summit of the ridge. The drive
is up the steep face of a cliff, which is
forty feet high, and constitutes the most
difficult bunker on the course. Having
negotiated the cliff, the player climbs up
the canyon and finds himself on a mesa
on the south side of Grand Canyon-a
beautiful, well-grassed spot. surrounded
To the eastward the blue waters of the
bay of Avalon are visible. The distance
to this hole. San Nicholas, is 23S yards,
hole, Santa Catalina, is 2S0 yards away,
and, If the player succeeds in making a
good drive across a deep ravine, should
be done in four strokes. He is now on
the top of little mesa surrounded by
hills. Descending, he crosses a canyon
by a rustic bridge and drives his ball
down the sloping little mesa to San Glenn
ente, the bogey score being three. The
sixth teeing ground stands on the edge
of the mesa, high above the main cam
yon Two hundred and thirty yards dis
tant is the sixth hole, Anacapa, with a
wash" intervening as hazard. The
bogey score is four. The seveLth green,
Santa Rosa, though only hundred yards
away, is not visible, for between it and
the player is high bunker. But If the
ball is well played 1t will land on the
green directly behind the club house and
be holed in three strokes. Thence the
course goes up a mesa skirting deep
canyon. The distance to Santa Barbara,
the eighth hole. being 230 yards and the
bogey score four. The view from these
the level canyon and mesa, and yet being
surrounded by mountains.
After leaving Santa Barbara the player
walks over q little divide, crosses can
yon by bridge, and finds the ninth
teelng-ground on small mesa facing the
clubhouse; the distance to Guadalupe,
the home green, is 1S5 yards, and many
players have driven the ball right on to
1t. 1t is but a few yards from the we'll
equipped clubhouse, which Is surrounded
by wide piazza and pretty garden.
The total distance of the course is 1878
yards, and the total bogey score is 80;
the record score is 80 (being four each for
the first eight holes, and three for the last
one), and was made by Franc o. Wood
of Colorado Springs, Colo
The Santa Catalina Golf Club Is pre-