Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-26

"HE Arcola Country Club contem-
plates having the finest golf
course in the state of New Jer-
sey when their new eighteen-hole
course is completed. The club has
had eighteen holes roughly laid out
over the most convenient portion of
their property, which will be seeded
in the fall and probably be ready for
use next spring, but in the course of
time. in the next few years. many inn
portant improvements will be made in
the form of adding new sporty holes
from their unimproved property to re-
place less important holes on their
course then in use.
The clubhouse will be a mammoth
amair and the work on it may be COM
menced in the fall. The new course,
as mapped out at present, and which
will be their regular course for the
first few years at least, is as follows:
First hole. 400 yards, will be down
grade from the clubhouse in q south
westerly direction to the green; the
second hole of 800 yards will be back
parallel with the first to the club
house hill; the third hole, 30 yards.
will be over a slight rise to a blind
green, and the fourth hole will be the
longest on the course, 500 yards, the
line of play being in a southeasterly
direction. There Will be a water hazard
to cross on the second shot, and the
play then is free to the green, which
is on high ground.
The fifth hole, 225 yards, is a sporty
proposition. The tee Is on a hill near
the fourth green, and the green is on
Al. l,Dvr Ae anAtbar hill WHARF the
green will be 100 feet square. with a
slope down in every direction and
natural hazards to the left. in the shape
of old gravel pits in the side of the hill.
Midway between the tee and green a
brook crosses the ours which is to
be dug out and widened into a pond
or dam, in order to make it a formid-
able water hazard for the hole. The
sixth hole. $40 yards, is a good drive
TO the edge of the swamp, where a
pond 200 feet wide will have to be
carried on the second shot for the
green, which is to be laid out on a little
neck of land extending out into the
marshy land. If the approach to the
green. which will be very large, is not
accurate. the ball will have to be
PLAYED back out of the swamp. The
SHNHnln nOle VIII ne pay Gu Ddch III q
westerly direction, parallel with the
sixth, the hole being 500 yards long.
There is a walk of about 100 yards
in the woods between the seventh
green and eighth tee, the hole being
about $50 yards long. There is heavy
woods along the line of play to the
right and the green is at the corner
Of the woods. The ninth hole. in {
westerly direction to the clubhouse. l.
$40 yards long and NJ grade.
Tho tenth hole is in a northeasterlN
direction ana about 300 yards long
with. the green on the edge of tn
wouais. The eleventh. hole Is back on
parallel Inc. and also about 800 yard
long. The twelfth Is = comparatively
short hole Of about 100 yards, In ;
northeastern direction.
The thirteenth hole. the sportiest o.
the course, is about 400 yards Ions
There is a drive of some 200 yards t
the foot of the hill, and the brov
of the hillshas to be carried on tn
second shot, the green being on a pla
teau on the west side of the hill nea
the top.
The fourteenth hole is about 26
yards long, down hill, in a northwest