The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-08
BIRMINGHAM GOLF COURSE DESCRIBED Central of Georgia Issues a Booklet to Attract
 Tourists

An unusually attractive booklet on Central of Georgia passenger depart ment. Is being distributed by L. ". Keith, travelling passenger agent for that company. The booklet contains cuts of all the principal golfing grounds in the south and is intended to draw winter visitors to the various cities touched by the Central of Georgia rail- road.
 As to the Birmingham Country club, MT. Keith secured one of the first places In the booklet and the description says:
 Golfers who have played at Stirling, Troon and Ayr, the home of Bobby Burns, will have that feeling which accompanies the meeting of an old friend when they visit the Birmingham golf course.
 "The hills and dales surrounding the Country club are strikingly Scotch In contour, and with the exercise of a It, tie imagination one may easily feel | that one is back in the land of poetry and romance. where the royal and an- cient game had It's inception. This is an eighteen hole course, equipped with beautiful sod greens and is one of the most interesting courses in the entire south. The second hole is across lake and is a magnificent men tai hazard. The entire eighteen holes are replete with interest to expert golf CTS, and the views are splendid. Prom the top of the hill. at the ssc- On hol wi iol, io al EA Ca I,t. than the tee, one may see the noun tains surrounding the city of Birming- ham. and can obtain a very fine view of the city and the smoke stacks of dis tant Ensley.
 The club is easily accessible from the hotels by trolley or motor car, and the clubhouse is one of the handsomest in the southeast It Is equipped with ! spacious bathrooms, lockers, reception room, ballroom, buffet and dining room, where meals are served la carte. The building is almost entirely surrounded by wide. verandas, where, amid a pro fusion of palms and ferns, one may rest and view a panorama of scenery that is typically southern.
 "The Presidents Cup tournament is
 
 scheduled for the Birmingham course this fall.
 "Visitors to Birmingham are always made to feel that hearty welcome awaits them at the Country club.
 "The attractiveness of the Birming- ham course Is greatly enhanced on &C., count of the city itself.
 While not in any sense of mushroom growth, Birmingham is a community typifying, to remarkable degree, that energy and resourcefulness which char acterize so many southern cities today.
 Not many years ago Birmingham was d comparatively small town, but In recent years capital combined with industry. has built up q city wonder full for it's rapid growth and the sta- bility of It's business enterprises.
 "The hills surrounding 1t have been made to yield up untold millions in coal, iron and steel, and today Birming- ham is one of the most interesting and instructive cities in the world.
 "The great furnaces and factories and shops of Birmingham are an interest ing study to tho throngs of visitors who now spend at least a portion es from the far north carry their golf clubs out on the Birmingham course, there Is a strong possibility that tho steel from which they were made may have been dug in its primitive state from the mountains surrounding the Alabama metropolis"