Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-10
ENGLISH GOLFER
P[ANSL|NKS To
COVER WORLD
Henry Leach Uses Cities Of
Various Nations as Holes
on Course.
BY Chick Evans.

THAVE Just read an article by Hen
ry Leach in The London Evening
Mail that stamps him as the
greatest Imaginative golf architect il
the world He has long, long con-
sidered golf a world game and the
logical sequence Of that thought-a
super-links constructed over two
spheres-came to him as reality
In nidocean on one Of his many Jour
neys.
In the construction Of this wonder
full course. Mr.. Leach had the able
assistance of Louis Teller profess
sional of the La Boulie Club, Paris,
no happened to be aboard ship at
the same time on his way TO Amer
lea
Their first labor was TO shrink the
earth. COMPRISING the golfing turns
10 about $500 yards, the proper length
OF a. hrst-class course.
Naturally Mr. Leach planned the
clubhouse of the World Golf and
Country Club near London. There
are two tees, zone ordinary one at
Mid Surrey and medal tee at Sun
nngdale"
The frs. hole is a short one-across
the water to La Boulie. with the Eng
fish Channel catching topped balls.
The second is a drive and pitch hole
from Paris to St Petersburg on TINS
hole a pulled ball will find the Baltic
Sea and a sliced one NAV be lost in
the Balkans. The green is at st. Pc
Iersburg. The third hole Is from 81
Petersburg to Consiantlnople, ana
the putting green is just outside the
Turkish capital II is over this hole
Mr.. Leach wakes particularly enthu-
siastic. 49,,
Third Hole Requires Skill.
1--WE cali this hole The Carpathians
because that line of mountains comes
into consideration II is good haii-
ron shot in normal. circumstances,
but il reeds 10 he played to the right
vim huoil. a, you could. not pitch
from st Petersburg into Turkey ana
STAY there. ard the Black Sea would
be too close 10 the dag. As 1t is. IN a
calm il is a delightful test of real SKIN
in iron play. The Black Sea gets a
pulled ball. one that is a little TOO
strong is over the green and into the
Narmora or the Aegean, bad slice
Wiil be off into the Adriatic and a
tonned ball is caught by the Carpa =
itfi;tt,s Ii Is q lovely hole. ] think.
though that when the wind Is from
the west it viii be fairer II we move
the haP ont TO ScutarL
The fourth is a drive and an IRON
down 70 Pretoria. 1t is played as n
oe-legeed hole for the player should
place his drive out toward the goid
coast to avoid the sandy lie he might
get in the Soudan."
The fifth hole is from Cape Town
70 Madagascar and then comes long
sixth--two fine wooden CLUB shots
from Madagascar to sydney, AUS
,ralia Perhaps he says, 1t Would ne
necessary to make an island niue
west of Perth for the tee shot TO
reach.
The seventh hole is a drive and a
cleek from sydney to the Royal club
at Calcutta "The tee shot must be
nicely placed on Borneo,
THE eighth is blind hole over the
Himalavas to Pellin" and the ninth is
from Pekin to Toxic. And so ne
reaches the turn,
Atlanta Not on Course.
The tenth is to Auckland, New
Zealand the eleventh is a long water
hole to Cape Horn, the twelfth green
is nj Ruenos AYres, the thirteenth az
Mexico City requiring an apsolutelN
perfect cleek shot along the lsthmus
Of Panama; the fourteenth goes TO
San Francisco. the fifteenth TO the
National Golf Links on Long Island
the sixteenth to Quebec. the seven
tenth to Madrid and the eighteenth
green alongside the shop OF the late
Tom Morris at St Andrews which is
somehow n natural sort of finish To
the best golf Imaginable"
Truly wonderful course. Mr.
Lea n thinks the gods perhaps, have
already found the great super-lnks
: and at nighttime. when the worlo
sleeps. Jupiter. Mars. Apollo and Her
cules play their mighty foursomes
upon IT, 81,
There is only one little nav 10 inns
marvellous course-Atlanta is left out
and Jupiter and Hercules could not
nlav foursomes and leave Atlanta out