Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-04
GLEN RIDGE GOLF CLUB OPENS SOON

old temporary quarters that were DuilI
for them after the fire. There win
doubtless be some changes made when
they take possession of the new CLUB
house, as the club then will conduct
it's own restaurant, "Jaeko," their Old
steward, who has been with the club
between eleven and twelve years. will
finish up today. His time was up April
/, but the members persuaded him to
remain in charge over Sunday. While
the club expects to be settled down in
its new house by or before the first OF
May, the old steward kinks it will be
nearer the middle of May before every
thing is In shipshape and in thorough
| running order. The course is in SPLEEN
did condition and there was a heavy
weekend attendance. The club antici-
| pates a very active season II the
governors are quite anxious to get the
, new clubhouse finished and furnished
at the earliest possible moment.
The fine weather on Saturday had
it's effect at tine Montclair Golf Club,
I as the members turned out in such
large numbers that the season was
~inaugurated with a medal play handi-
cap, which was won by A. r. Allen,
with 4 card OF 81, 11-o.
The Essex County Country Club has
! spent about thirty thousand dollars
during the past winter improving and
r~efurnislling their clubhouse. which
now has twenty sleeping rooms. each
containing a tiled bathroom. Many OF
the members will put up at the club
for the season., where they can play golf
to their hearts content and enjoy all
the comforts of home.
Englewood has stiffened up her
course considerably this spring. Two
pot bunkers have been put in to
the left at the first green and
one to the right. Two will be put
in to the left of the second green, just
over the water hazard. All the putting
greens have been reduced to 100 feet
by 80 feet. All the cap bunkers form
erly on the course lave been faced up
straight with cakes of sward about
three feet high. Two pots will be put
to the left of the third green. A sand
cap will be put to the right OF the
fourth green. The bank at the -ditc.1
going to the sixth hole has been raised
two feet, and q hand trap put on the
other side of the ditch to catch a sliced
ball going to the sixth, and it also traps
q sliced ball going to the tenth. About
one hundred yards from the seventh
tee nine pyramids about five feet high
nave beea put in to trap a low driye
or tapped ball. Two pot bunkers will
be put to the left of the ninth green.
The eleventh tee has been moved back
ten yards. Going to the thirteenth a
sand trap about sixty feet long is to
be put to the left to trap a pull, and
] l. ..,L,a +,oo will pcu,a for a mil
coming back on the fourteenth.
The woods nave been cleared away
going to the ninth hole, which make a
ball playable now that was formerly
out of courts. Twelve new ties nave.
been made, which gives the course n
very handsome and inviting appear
ance. Jack Habehs has had a gang
of about twenty men working on the
course this spring and the course win
be formally opened April %.
The Inwood Country Club. OF which
young Tom Anderson is the profess
sional, is r~earranging its fine eighteen
hole course and lengthening it out u
$50 yards. A new sporty hole is being
added and will be the third hole on the
rearranged course 1t is only an iron
shot of 10 yards. but it is all carry
! IN ~ Z hhO oiCNIi, oNcI d Wldo
pond of water to a green 100 feet
square, surrounded by water and deep
Sane pits. The shot has to be played
with a backspin in order to remain on
the green. The old first hole will re-
main the same, but the new second will
be the old sixth, the new fourth the.
old seventh, the fifth the old eighth, the
sixth the old ninth, the seventh the old
tenth, the eighth the old eleventh and
the ninth the old twelfth, the tenth
the old thirteenth. the eleventh the old
fourteenth. the twelfth the old fifteenth,
the thirteenth the old sixteenth. the
fourteenth the old third. the ff-
tenth the old fourth and the sixteenth
the old second. the seventeenth and
eighteenth remaining the same. The
old fifth hole has been abandoned and
a new fifteenth green made upon 1t
near the old tee. Many new traps are
icing put in and the course will be
made very much harder.
There is some talk of the Englewood
Golf Club holding on fnyitafinn tatirua-