The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-15
START on IDEAL GOLF LINKS.
Plot Of Ground secured az ~shinnecock
Hills.

Contracts were closed yesterday for 200
acres at Shinnecock Hills. L.. L.. TO be the site
OF the ideal links planned by the subscribers
as the National golf course" The location
IL that announced previously as the probable
site. 1t forms part OF the large tract held
by the Alvord syndicate on the sand dune
between Great Peconio and Shinnecock bays.
There is no ocean frontage. but the Atlantic
and the two bays are in view from the hills,
The following notice has been sent to the
sixty subscribers:
Please pay to the order Of Mr.. James A. Stillman,
SO Wall street. your subscription OF $1,000 as one
Of the founders OF the National golf course. Mr.,
Slillman Is to disburse this money for the purchase
Of approximately go acres or land at ShinnecOck.
II Ia probable that a corporation Will be formed
under the laws OF New York state and stock given
for the subs riptiOns.
The purchase price Ia announced as sac. 900.
4 temporary organization of the founders has
been made. with C.. Il. Macdonald. president;
X. T.. Watson. Jr.. secretary; James A. Still
man. treasurer; Devereaux Emmett and Daniel
thBunCey, committeeman. The working
committee to Law out the course will be G. b.
Macdonald. Matter j., Travis. Devereaux
Emmett and n. !. Mhigham. The next five
months will be devoted to planning the holes
in detail. BY that time a Typographical
model in miniature will have been made as a
guide to the delivers. gardeners and engineers
W no " III Dekln the 0CtuQI WORK oil CONTRADICTION
in the spring, All the planning will be by
the committee OF amateurs. and the views of
professional golfers will not be sought.
While resembling in character the grounds
of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club to the west
ward. the new purchase IL more on the Pc
promontory known as Sebonac Neck. bounded
by bullshead Bay. PeconIc Bay and Cold
Of a mile on BaiisheSd Bay. and practiesiiy
the course will be on a strip OF good turf with
q sandy subsoi, with water always in view
The most attractive holes on the Sh.nnecock
Hills course are on the high ground over
looking Shinnecock Bay. swept by the Atlantic
breezes. but the water frontage and the SUI
perIor quality OF soil, in the opinion Of the
directors who have examined the land, viii
justify the selection of the. Peconlc Bay side
OF the dunes for the new course.
The location will enable u to lay out the
best golf course in the world, SAID {. b.
Macdonald. We will reproduce the best
holes and make the most delightful round
that can be conceived. Distances and the
holes to be reproduced will be decided on
by the committee in the next five months
The possibilities for a hne turf and ideal
golfing are unlimited. Al the narrow end of
Bullshead Bay, where the promontory Joins the
water hazard. to Be arranged of varying
widths, so that while a strong driver with a
on0Nlns VINE may attenlpt a 40 ydrd carry
a shorter angle to the fair green and to get
home in two, These opportunities TO balance
ones game by circumstances form the key
We have a stretch at our disposal of four
acres IN width and two miles long The
exact lines will not be Staked out until the
committee has finished its plans, for latitude
has been given to us in this respect, as all
concerned want the course to be IDEAL Bulls
head Bay will be SkiTted Tor about a mile,
and at the end Of the point there is an oppor-
tunIty TO reproduce the famous short hole at
, 81. Andrews. But there are other Oppor-
tunitlee as deliGhtful-tor instance. to duplicate
the Redan hole AZ North Berwick, When
Whigham saw a certain knoll with me he
cried out we Will make "A bptfP or Aims hole
than at Prestwick.
All who have seen the plot Emmett.
TraI|i. thauncey. Watson and others are
unanimous in praise Of its Rolf1ng POSSIBLE
ties. The soil is much better than on the
Atlantic side. of the dunes, and the undula-
tons, instead Of being high and long, az on
the Shinnecock Hills, are short and billowy
much easier to adapt to a variety of good
lies for the ball.
1T will take two yearsto perfect the cou rse.
Then our members will find q golf house
ready, also, with lockers and baths. We are
not going into the hash or bed business.
A modern inn Is being built within POO or 200
Yards of our first tee by outside interests.
! There are sites va ia BILE for houses, and va chts
/ may approaC CHI thrOu Rh Great Peconic Bay.
by the time the cOu rise is ready the location
: will he moro accessible TO New Workers. 1t
should then be within two and a half hours
by n direct automobile road from the cit
and within two hours by rail. The original
/ plans for an ideal course will he carried ont Do
The sixty founders become charter NOM
bers for their payments ~ 81 900, and the
list of subscribers Is said to he complete.
Besides. there will be IN associate membership
Of 200 men, with an initiation foe Of 500 20
5000 and annual dues If $40 10 SEQ. Each
founder will receive a debenture bond. 10 he
a fixed charge on the property. The bond
must be held as long as one is a member Of
the founders, and in ca Of selling q bond
may he sold only To one who is elected a
member Of the founders. This feature is
the same that governs the holding of stock
in many shooting fishing md golf clubs.
IL also is PROPOSED that the ground NOT used
I'm the links will no allotted in hi Hiding plots
10 the founders In its business aspects. ns
such plots should improve in value to golfers,
the ideal course seems a matter Of fact propo-
sit ion.