The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-28
THE MANOA
GOLF CLUB
History OF a Popular
Local Sporting
Organization.

The Manoa Golf Club was organized
in the early summer of 1904. For sew
ieral years prior to that time there had
| been considera BILE interest taken in the
great Scottish game but it was largely
confined to a small coterie of men OF
English or Scotch descent. The fine
links at Moanalua maintained by Hon
5. NJ. Damon We're visited by the faith
full few on all holidays and many spirit
led competitions took place there. With
the organization of the Manoa Golf
| Club interest in golf spread rapidly,
i The links We're close at hand and it
became possible for the golfing en-
! thusiast to leave his Office in the late
afternoon and play a comfortable
round of nine holes before the dinner
hour. AS a result the Manoa Club
grew rapidly in membership from the
sixty or seventy who signed the origi-
nal list, until its roll at the present
time contains nearly two hundred
names including about fifty ladies.
The course and club house are in
beautiful Manoa valley. The house is
an unpretentious structure with a wide
lanai in front from which there are fine
views of Diamond Head and the ocean,
as well as over considerable portion
of the links. The first tee is on the
club lawn and the first hole is Us yards
away at the foot of the long slope lead
ing to the house, a good iron snot with
penalties for a pulled ball or an over
approach. The second hole leads
away toward the other side
of the valley 29S yards. Fences and a
road make good hazards while a sliced
ball is badly punished. The green is
a fine one, the largest and best on the
course. No. three is an even 200
yards and is a very ticklish hole to
play. A good low drive. just clearing
the branches of a large tree and drop
ping the ball on the level beyond will
enable the careful player to make a !
good four or possibly three, but stop
ped ball will find rocks and lantana
and other difficulties. The drive for No. |
four is from a little knoll beside the |
IN the course, 321 yards. The green is |
On a hill and the approach is blind, |
with heavy penalty for an over ap-i
1roach. Probably the greatest test of |
accurate iron play on the course is No.
i've. The distance is but 100 yards and
[ is almost d sheer drop of 1000 feet
rom the tee to the green. The strong
ross wind which blows six days out
# seven makes it very difficult to drop
he ball properly into the green. In |
pite of its shortness the hole is much
more often made in four than three. |
However, two members of the club.
Harold Gifard and Geo. I. Brown have
een lucky enough to make it in one. |
90. six is 221 yards back across the
alley. To successfully negotiate No.
even (315 yards) needs a drive that
7ill carry $50 yards so as to clear the
unker.
Then there is a double hazard of wall
nd road and a steep climb to the
reen on top of the hill, where there is
magnificent view of the valley and |
fountains and sea. No. eight is short
on shot OF 10 yards down hill once
lore. No. nine leads home with a very q
retty hazard of a low wall directly is
front of the tee. Its length is 223 ~
ards. The total length of the course 4
2042 yards.
The officers of the club are: Cover
or George r. Carter, presidnt; c. j.
utchins, vice-presfdent; Wade War e
IN Thayer, secretary; J. o. Young,
'easurer; c. 3. High, captain; George
. Angus. director.