Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-13
GOLF
CLUB EXPECTS A
GREAT SEASON
Summer Club so Enthusiastic
Professional Is Retained
All Winter.
BY STRAIGHT DRIVE.
Hollywood Golf Club, "
has a nirflreanun aiphfaPn.

THE Hollywood Golf Club. which
has a picturesque eighteen-hole
golf course ear West End, Long
Branch, is making active preparations
for a busy season.
Their course is not long and tiresome,
but, If anything, short and interesting.
It is 5,445 yards In length, with not a
single 5O0-yard hole on the course. The
longest is 474 yards and the shortest
Ia yards. The season will not be for
mally opened until about Decoration
Day, although there will be more or
| less playing over the course from he
middle of May. The club was so well
Pleased with its new professional.
Eugene Mccarthy, who was engaged
last fall, that for the first time in the
history of the club, which is merely a
summer institution, the members
retained him all winter on full salary.
The improvements he began then will
be carried out this spring, and the
club anticipates having a course this
year h will compare favorably with
any In the metropolitan district.
The par for the course is 6S M the
DOGGY "A. Heretofore the course has
been sadly neglected, but now 1t is
being licked" into ideal shape by a
man who thoroughly understands his
business.
The tees are all Deing made about
thirty-six feet square and turfed, SO
hat the starting point can be shifted
from time to time without the turf
being injured to any extent from too
much usage, as the club has $50 mem
bers and they all play golf. The put
ting greens are receiving much needed
attention and all the sand-traps and
bunkers are being thoroughly over
hauled and many new pits added.
The Wykagyl Country Club will hold
a special meeting OF all the members
next Thursday night, March Is. to vote
On some new amendments to the CON-
StItution and Dy-laws proposed by the
boaro of governors in reference to in
creasing the initiation lee n reducing
the limit of membership from so to 400
or at the outside 400.
The club has a beautiful eighteen
hole course of about 5000 yards in
length, laid out yer the hills to the
west Of New Rochelle, In Westchester
county, New York. They own their own
property, In the neighborhood Of 200
acres, which they purchased a few
years ago It an exceptional bargain,
and since then it has increased about six
times In value of the original price and
is steadily increasing in value each
year. The time may yet arrive when
the property will be too valuable for
golhng purposes.
The members are all stockholders,
and for this reason it is desired to put
the initiation fee beyond the reach of
the average golfer. as 1t is believed
that within the mex ten years or so
the property Will tie worth at least a
million dollars.
The club is one of the most promi-
nent in the metropolitan district and In
a hourishing financial condition. 1t viii
hold an invitation tournament Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday. July 10, IA
and Is. and great preparations are
being made for the event.
Alec Smith, the national and metro
politan open champion, is the clubs
professional. The club has just en-
gagged the former Garden City green
keeper to look after their greens this
year. as the club anticipates a very
active season.