Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-04-18
Wilkinson, GADDIS { CO., Newark n J., Distributors

encircled with verandas. Further back
on this same ridge. possibly 200 yards
| further north, the golf course crosses
! this hill, the fair way being cut through
dense woods, making an avenue 800
1 feet wide from the lowlands to the
/ east west over this mountainous hill
/ to the old turnpike.
/ II certainly will prove a grand test
of golf. About 100 acres of the prop
erty had formerly been used as farming
land, and was, therefore, in fairly good
condition. About twenty-five acres of
woods had to be cleared for the course
Some swamps and bogs have to be dug
out yet in order to form lakes or ponds
for the water hazards H. H. Barker
the Garden City professional, staked
off the course last fall for 615O yards
hut since then the committee have
heightened out some of the holes, so
that when completed it will be $500
yards in length. The course abounds
in natural hazards, and after it is
thoroughly seeded next fall it will be
trapped eile following spring before the
play for the season begins.
The thirteenth hole, of 400 yards, is
one of the sportiest on the course. 1t
is up over the highest hill on the course
to a blind green on q plateau about
midway down the west side of the hill,
with heavy woods on either side of the
fair way, which is only 300 feet wide
The regular tournament season will
open this week and continue right
through until Thanksgiving Day. In
fact. it will open with the annual spring
tournament of the Country Club, of
Lakewood. on Thursday Friday and
Saturday. April 81, 23 and 23. and close
with the annual fall tournament of the
Country Club, of Lakewood November
"a, % and 26. Many important tourna-
ments are scheduled to be played be-
tween these dates. The Atlantic City
Country Club follows Lakewood with
it's three days tournament next week,
April %, 90 and 80. Garden City gets
the first week in May, leading the near
by clubs with it's annual invitation
tournament May 5, 6 and {. Fox Hills
has May -, 13 and IA, and the Nassau
Country Club has May 10, 20 and u.
The Metropolitan Golf Association
amateur championship comes next. and
1t will be held on the Morris County
Golf Club links May 25 26, q and 2S.
The women's metropolitan champion
ship VIII be played May 81, June l. =
and at thesMontclair Golf Club, and
1t will conflict the last three days with
the New Jersey State Golf Association
championship, which will be played
June 2, 3 and 4 at the Essex County
Country Club. The women from the
metropolitan district will be called
upon to compete in the Griscom cup
matches June and Z at the Hunting
don Valley Country Club, Philadelphia
as they are now the holders of the cup,
having won it last year at Baltusrol.
These matches will be followed by the
Womens Eastern Golf Association
championship June s and 8 over the
same course. The invitation tour
nament of the Wykagyl Country Club
will be played June Q, 10 and II, and
it will be followed by the invitation
tournament of the Montclair Golf Club
June 16, II and Is. The Staten Island
championship will also be played June
16. II and IS at the Fox Hills Golf Club.
The Apawamis Club will hold it's tour
nament June 49, "a and 25, and Con-
necticut and Massachusetts will play
their team match June 25 at New
Haven, while the open national cham
pionship wfil be played June 27 and 2s
at the Philadelphia Cricket Club.
Ardsley will hold its invitation tourna-
ment June 80. July l and 2, which will
be followed by the Connecticut State
championship July 6, I, and 0 at New
Haven.
The Forest Hill Field Club opened it's
season on Saturday, when the members
turned out in force and played over the
old course. In fact, the three new holes
north of the clubhouse will not be put
| in commission till after the first Of
June, and at present the committee
are undecided as to how the course will
be adjusted in order TO include the
three new holes, as three others will
have to be disposed of. A new work.
shop is being built near the railroad
track for Jack Campbell, the clubs
new professional Sherman's piazza
dinners. for which the club is famous,
will be renewed in June.