Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-04
April 10 Date Set-Cunningham
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News.
BY STRAIGHT DRIVE.

A made made at the Glen sien Ridge Golf
Club for the opening OF the sea-
son. The club has a very nice nine
hole course, 2,971 yards in length, the
DOGGY of which is 80. New sand-traps
are being put in to the left, going to
the fifth green, which also answer for
the fourth hole. The centre of the
bunker on the eighth hole has been
removed, leaving the two ends to trap
sliced and pulled balls. Four new pits
are being dug at the two corners on
the green, on the approach and
two further back to punish a careless
approach to the green, or rather an
over-approach.
Accuracy is awarded, and it certain
ly will be required. The course is now
in very excellent condition for this sea-
son of the year, and the summer greens
have an inviting appearance. h club
has about 200 members and a waiting
list. Alec Cunningham, the clubs
professional, who has spent the winter
at Augusta, Ga, has returned and is
getting thing. in shape for the clubs
formal opening, April 1G. The steward,
who has spent the winter in Europe,
will return this week.
The summer greens at the Upper
Montclair Country Club have been
seeded and rolled, and the club will
formally open it's season on Saturday
of this week.
The fair greens at +he Essex County
Country Club were pretty thoroughly
rolled during the last week. and there
are no soft spots on the new section Of
the course, although the summer, put
ting greens are not quite up to the
fancy of David Hunter, the clubs pro-
fessional. He hopes to nave them them
in fine condition by he close of the
present week. They have been a trifle
too soft for the hand-rollers, but are
getting better each day. He has sug-
gested the stiffening up of the course
for the New Jersey State championship
by running a line of traps across the
course On the third hole to trap the Sec
ond shot and make the approach to the
green a little more difficult. He also
recommends the removal of the centre
of the bunker guarding the green on
the seventh hole and leaving the two
ends to trap a pull o. a slice, as he
| claims a long driver is often punished
by getting a straight ball into the centre
of this bunker.
The sporty eighteen-hole public
course at Forest Park, Brooklyn, 4,412
yards in length, which remained open
all winter, has been closed until the
first of May. in order to give the course
a m~uch-needed rest IL the grass a
chance TO take root and grow. Incident
ally, however, the park commissioner
is having a number of necessary inn
provements made. A sand-pit $50 feet
long is being dug to catch a sliced
drive from the thirteenth tee. The old
fourteenth hole has been cut out and a
new fourteenth added, which necessi-
tates a new fifteenth tee. with an en-
tirely different line oc direction to the
fifteenth green. Similar sand-traps to
the thirteenth hole are to be put in on
the seventh and eighth holes. The
seventeenth and eighteenth tees are
each to be moved back about 100 yards
and 200 more feet are to be added to
the length of the new fourteenth hole.
Grin Perry, professional of the Canoe
\Odiil ~ "fo
winter on the Pacific coast, has re-
turned from the West and resumed his
duties at Canoe Brook. The course is
in better shape than 1t has ever been
in before at this season of the year
The members are still using temporary
greens, as the regular summer greens
will not be used until the season is for
mally opened, which will be about the
first of May. when the clubhouse Will
be opened for the season and the regu-
lar club events begin. Many sand
traps are being added this spring or
various parts of the course.
The Baltusrol Golf Club has not YET
been able to get full possession of its
new building. although they have beer
using the locke Don in the base
ment for some time. 1t has required a
much longer time to finish up in the
inside than had been anticipated and
tie members are still occupying theil