Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-17
Invitation Tournament Starts Tomorrow Over Finest Course
SOUTH'S BEST PLAYERS HERE FOR LOCAL EVENT

other. And all the morning. as
regularly as a minute gun booms.
players will get away from the first
tee on the long grind that is even
tually to determine the ownership
of a huge mass of assorted silver
ware and incidentally to settle the
question of golfng supremacy
among the corking good players
who will gather for a trial of skill
over the South's one championship
course.
All the preparatory work is over
now but the shouting The course
has been carefully prepared, the
prizes have been bought. the plans
made and by every train golfers
are gathering for the final test of
skill
1t is a good deal of treat for
the average top-notch Southern
players to get a chance at the At
lanta course For it is essentially .
championship course. while the
average Southern course is a duff
fer's course,
There is no denying that the or
binary course is laid out to satisfy
the gof1ng aspirations of the dub
players. They are always so vast
~ in majority that the greens
committee panders to them and
smooths out the u dbles. The usual
course is laid on. not as test of
golf but as round which can be
played with the maximum Of dub
bersome enjoyment and the mini
mum of score.
In Atlanta they have had the
courage of their convictions and
have laid out a course that is
course. They haven't considered
what would probably amuse the
poorer players of the club. but have
made a course that most nearly
approaches perfection. A large
part of the credit for the especial
excellence of the local course be-
longs to George W. Adair. who was
president of the club during the
first three or four years of the
courses history The work is now
being carried out along the same
broad lines by President w H.
Glenn. himself an excellent golfer
and believer in real golf courses.
NO Southern course has had the
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vice as the one at East Lake. 1t
was laid out originally by Tom
Bendlow. of Chicago, who has
planned more courses than any man
in probably more than
any man in the world. The first
professional of the club was Alex
smith, then open champion OF
America. of the East, of the East
ern Professionals association, of the
METROPOLITAN Golf association, and
goodness knows What all The
early trapping was done under his
guiding eye Since then the ideas
of H. H. Barker imported from
England by the Garden City course
because of his wonderful knowledge
of golf course planning; Freddie
Mcleod ex-open champion; the
late Willie Anderson. ex-open,
and J. J. McDermott, present open
champion, have all been secured
on The subject as well as those of
Walter J Travis, former Amer
lean and British amateur cham
pion; H chandler Egan, ex-ama-,
teur champion of American. and a
slather of other PLAYERS Of note.
The result has been that the local
course has been trapped and bunk
cred according to the ideas Of
Americas greatest golfng experts
And it's some golf course.
over this great course for the
next three days the Souths best
golfers will battle. and it should
prove some contest"
THEY have been playing some
interesting professional tourna-
ments Of late. The victory of Tom
Mcnamara. the Boston rhome-
bred" PLAYER in the open of the
Metropolitan Golf association. was
not surprising. Tom has ben play