Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
ENGLISH GOLFER
LANSL|NKS To
COVER WORLD
Henry Leach Uses Cities of
Various Nations as Holes
on Course.
BY Chick Evans.

IHAVE just read an article by Hen
ry Leach in The London Evening
Mail that stamps him as the
greatest imaginative golf architect In
the world. He has Ions, long con-
sidered golf world game and the
logical sequence Of that thought
super-links constructed over two
hemispheres-came TO him as reality
in midocean on one OF his many jour
neys.
In the construction of this wonder
ful course Mr. Leach had the able
assistance Of Louis Teller, profess
sional of the La Bouiie Club, Paris,
who 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 first-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 a medal tee at Sun
ningdale"
The fret hole Is a short one-across
the water to La Boulie, with the Eng
lish Channel catching topped balls,
The second is a drive and pitch hole
from Paris 10 81. Petersburg on this
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
tersburg. The third hole is from st.
Petersburg TO Constantlnople. ana
the putting green Is just outside the
Turkish capital II is over this hole
that he calls the Carpathians that
Mr.. Leach wakes particularly enthu-
Third Hole Requires Skill.
I'VE call this hole The Carpathians
hecause that line OF mountains comes
into consideration. II is good halt-
iron shot In normal circumstances,
but It needs to be played to the right
with a hook, as you could not pitch
from St. Petersburg into Turkey and
stav there. and the Black Sea would
be too close to the flag. AS 1t Is IN
calm II ia a delightful test OF real skill
in iron play. The Black Sea gets
pulled ball, one that Is little TOO
strong is over the green and into the
Marmora or the Aegean, bad slice
will be off into the Adriatic and
topped ball is caught by the Carpa-
thians. II is a lovely hole, | think,
though. that when the wind is from
the flag out to Scutari.'
The fourth is a drive and an iron
down 10 Pretoria 1T is played as
dog legged hole, for the player should
place his drive out toward the goio
coast to avoid the sandy lie he might
get in the Soudan"
The ffth hole Is from Cape Town
10 Madagascar and then comes long
sixth-two fine wooden club SHOTS
from Madagascar TO sydney, Aus
tralia Perhaps, he says, 1t would ne
necessary to make an island httle
west of Perth for the tee shot TO
reach.
The seventh hole is drive and
cleek from Sydney to the Royal cub
at Calcutta. 1.-THE tee shot must De
nicely placed on Borneo.
.'The eighth IL a blind hole over the
Himalayas to Pekin" 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 long water
hole TO Cape Horn, the twelfth green
is at Buenos Ayres, the thirteenth al
Mexico City. requiring an absolutely
perfect cleek acct along the lsthmus
OF Panama; the fourteenth goes to
San Francisco. the fifteenth 10 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 a natural sort OF finish TO
the best golf imaginable"
Truly wonderful course. Mr.
Leach thinks the gods perhaps, have
already found the great super links
and at nighttime. when the world
sleeps. Jupiter. Mars, Apollo and Her
cules play their mighty foursomes
upon =.
There is only one little flaw TO this
marvellous course-Atlanta is left out
and Jupiter and Hercules could not
play foursomes and leave Atlanta out