Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-23
GARDEN CITY LINKS MORE DIFFICULT NOW
Walter Travis, When Season
Closed, Made Many Changes
in the Course.
BY STRAIGHT DRIVE.

which was regarded by all lead
ing experts last spring as being
the most severely bunkered and p
of any golf course In America, and by
many considered oyertrapped, Will be
as hard to negotiate again neXt spring
as shortly before snow closed the INKS
last month some thirty additional traps
and bunkers were added to the course
Fifty-one yards was also added to the
length of this course by moving back
the tees on a few of the holes, when
now gives them a playing distance OF
$500, it having formerly been 6.449.
The course now contains eighty rap
and pits n thirty-siX bunkers, in
GLIDING the lake or pond, which u
be carried on the eighteenth hole from
the tee to the green, as 1t is about 100
yards wide. When the pond Is carried
one is not altogether safe. as there Is
a sand pit to the right eight feet deep
and a similar one to the left, while
Immediately behind the green Is a long,
deep trench to trap an over-approach.
With these additional hazards put In
this fall, practically after the close OF
the season, 1t is hardly likely there will
be any records broken next year, and 1t
Is q QuGSIlOn IL ldSl ulAiliiC . 80
will be equaled even by the men who
made them, as the course has been
made at least four or five strokes
harder. Walter ]. Travis holds the
amateur record at II, and he repeatedly
made Y, 70 and IA, the par for the
course being 70, while Fl. II. Barker
the clubs professional, holds the pro-
fessional record at IS, his remarkable
score being:
Out .......3 8 444 4 4-9e
In ........3 2 4 3-32-6S
2 One can get a better idea of h golf
played by a comparison with the length
OF each hole and the par for the same:
Rs5 So. ....sss ,s 81 80 / go q, 3 80 So as sss-s.a s e
r Holes ....... $50 $50 1856 SIS $50 4ol as $50 lSSO-a,1SS7
The holes that were heightened by
moving back the tees this fall were the
ninth, eleventh, fourteenth, fifteenth
and seventeenth.
There are really but few members or
the Garden City Club who are aware of
the additional trapping the course got
this fall, and when the golfers from
other clubs in the metropolitan district
see the course at the clubs spring tour
nament 1t will be like a thunder-bolt
from a clear sky, as the course looks
as though they had zone out of their
way to find q place to put a trap
Nothing was lone to the first or Sec
ond holes, but on the third a new pit
was dug to guard the green. -Four new
sand pits were put on the second hole,
one for a pulled drive, with a two-foot
sod facing on the side nearest the
green, while the other three were run
across the course, requiring a good Sec
ond shot to clear them. A long, deep
pit has been dug back of h green to
trap an over-approach. A double
meaning deer pit for a sliced drive was
dug on the sixth hole, which will also
trap a slice on the second shot playing
The seventh hole.
The eighth hole was made very much
harder by digging a deep pit behind the
green. Two new pits were put on the
tenth hole to catch a pulled drive. On
the eleventh hole a series OF mounds
we're putin a trife to the left, about
ten yards from the green, and a deep
pit placed to the left of the green. A
new pit has been placed on the thir-
teenth hole TO trap a pulled second shot,
and a very deep pit has been dug about
ELK IeGL 10 Tie It'll VI lag 6iSOiE
Two new deep pits have been added
to the fourteenth hole on either side of
the fair green. The n will trap a
sliced drive, while the other will attend
TO the wants of a pulled drive. The
only additional hazard on the fifteenth
hole is a long, deep pit behind the
green. A new pit for a sliced drive has
been added to the sixteenth hole and
another pit with mounds around 1t for
q pulled second shot.
A brief summary of the course shows
that the first hole has two bunlkers and
three pits, the second n bunker and
three pits, the third two bunkers and
eight pits, the fourth W bunkers and
eight pits, the fifth has two bunkers
and three pits, the sixth two bunkers
and five pits, the seventh two bunkers
and four pits, the eighth two bunkers
and -four pits, the ninth two bunkers
and seven pits, the tenth three bunkers
and six pits, the eleventh three bunkers
and five pits, the twelfth n bunker
and one pit, the thirteenth one bunker
and Ave pits, the fourteenth three
bunkers and five pits. the fifteenth two
bunkers and three pits, the sixteenth
four bunkers and six pits, the seven
teenth three bunkers and one pit, and
the eighteenth one pond n three pits