The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-22
SPLENDID COURSE
AT N0RMANDIE.
Young Golf Club ON st. Charles Rock
Road Has Rough Ground That
should Soon Develop Into Best
Links About st. Louis.

| Things look a bit unimpressive about the
| NOrmandie Park Club. which occupies the
| old Lucas homestead on the st. Charles
Rock road. about two miles from Wellston
| The clubhouse Is In course of construction
| Builders material lies all around 1t. Roads
are unfinished and clay is red. There are
none Of the grass or flowers, or trees, which
made the Country Club and Glen Echo SO
pretty. These things are yet to come.
Normandie is a diamond yet uncut. Start
ing around its course you find the first hole
unimpressive. 1t Is nice drive into the
hill face across ditch and a couple of
| ugly washouts There is no sod. It re-
| minds you Of the Field Clubs ninth hole in
its ugliest reddsst and barest days. The
green is large and well in grass. 1t rolls
nicely zoo.
No. is up gentle rise. nice hole
when grass grows on the red clay. 1t is
about 800 yards long. No. comes right
back alongside Of 1t. Then comes pretty
drive to 4. OFF a nigh hill across the corner
Of the Chic Lake onto a fine. big srcen
natural. Here the course runs into fine blue
grass pasture land. No. 8 runs In a nice
drive and q half iron into a basin of a
green that lis cunning. but dished so as to
put you under the boundary fence on the
side roll. No. q runs due east along the
boundary fence 1t calls for two full wal
lops and is a ripping. rolling hole. No. Z
parallels 1t. coming right back to No. 5
green and calls for two full raps. Both 9
and ! are fine holes. where good, open golf
can be played. The turf is excellent. In
deed, 1t is the best about ST. Louis-fine old
blue grass.
HOLE THAT Is A BEAUTY.
No. s is a perfect beauty. 1t starts or a
high hill brow. The drive carries valley
and Sutchh with hhs pond t9 the left to catch
the face of the hill and the brassie should
carry the green. This hole Is perfectly set
in and straight uphill a die. 1t is a pic
ture and calls for fine strong play. as the
previous two also do. They are not holes
that ladies can play. No. is a sweet iron
pitch across handsome pond onto a per-
fectly set green. You can either sky" the
ball onto the green or shoot it into the face
of the hill ana roll it on. 1t is a very pref
ty hole Words cannot describe it's perfect
situation.
Then comes lot of useless zigzagging
back and forth across a gully. One hole is
like another. a full drive or drive and
short pitch. Nos. 10. II and Il come under
this head of clean and easy, yet monoto-
nous holes. because one is like another as
two peas. No. Is runs along the Lucas lane
1t calls for drive and cleek and is fine
hole, allowing strong, open-chested play.
No. Il starts out well across a wicked pond
with nasty opposing bank. Behind this
come a long downhill run, with a cast to-
ward the gulch that bodies Ill to a pulled
ball The green is ridiculous little patch
Access washout and UP against boun-
dairy fence. How the players can get on 1t
in the two strokes the distance and lie of
the links demands passeth understanding
1t is like pitching on a pocket handker-
chief $50 yards off.
SOME NASTY PARALLELS.
No. Is course runs back up the hill par
alleled to No. IA. the tee being stuck I'm the
rail fence beside No. Is green. No. Is green