The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-12
NEWS OF THE DAY
IN SOCIETY WORLD
Chat About Some Ideal Golf
Courses
NOTES HERE AND THERE
Events of Today--Motor Parties In the
Embellishments of Well-known
Folk-Dance at Friar's Club.
other Gossip
NOTES HERE AND THERE
BY MYRTLE MILES

A story of golfing around New York,
illustrated with photographs OF some Oh
the famous golf clubs within motoring
distance of the summer resident OF the
metropolis, will be read with interest by
local enthusiasts.
The ancient game of golf has firm
foundation in this country and especially
near New York, where conditions seem
ideal for it. 1t was twenty years ago
that the game came into general favor
and the clubs began to spring up In all
directions and links were laid out In
many places. The suburban golf club,
as a rule, is an open one and 1t possesses
all the advantages of country club and
is generally the center of social activi-
ties in the neighborhood in, which 1t is
situated, says Town and Country Many
golfers coming from other cities for a
visit to New York, even for only few
days, have their friends put them up
at one or another golf club near the
city. 1t is one of the pleasant expert
ences of metropolitan life, and although
they may belong to an excellent course
at home. they appreciate the most ideal
game, within a half hour or less of the
heart of the city. They can easily, aft
er the stock exchange is closed or the
business or sightseeing day is ended, run
out to a suburban course and have an
hours sport and cup of tea or some
other refreshment and get back tn town
In time to dress for dinner or for the
play.
Long Island is, perhaps, the locality
where there are many more golf clubs
than in any other suburban neighbor
hood. The island is level, broken here
and there by long rolling hills, and
better country for the game cannot be
found anywhere. Garden City. now with
the new terminal at 1hirty-third street
completed and the wonderful facilities
affouded by the Pennsylvania railroad,
has become the center of the suburban
golfing interests Hampstead and ia
maica plains are much more suited to
this gentle game than to hunting and the
trail of the aniseed scent. There are
three clubs there, two of which have
been recently. consolidated and an army
of caddies is kept constantly busy. The
course of the Garden City Golf club is
one of the most famous in the country.
Nearly all the big tournaments have
been played on these links for years and
owing to its situation 1t can be used
both summer and winter. The Midland
and the Salisbury Gog clubs play over
the same course-that belonging to the
latter club. 1t is of eighteen holes. All
of these links have comfortable club
houses with every conveience and charm
ingly furnished and we'll adapted for
entertaining In short they are country
clubs of the very first order.
Others mentioned are the Oakland and
the Flushing Country club near Flushing,
the Rockaway and the Meadowbrook
hunts, which have their own courses
the Sands Point Golf club at Port Wash
ington, the Nassau Country club, the
Glenola, near Sea Cliff, the Shinnecock,
near Southampton. the Knollwood
Country club at White Plains, the ia
nous Ardsley-on-the-H Hudson the silva
noy Country club at Mt Vernon, Bal
tusrol, In New Jersey and score of
others which show the widespread favor
of this splendid game.