Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
ATHLETIC CLUB
WILL HAVE BEST
LINKS IN SOUTH
Expert Declares Many Changes
VIII Give Best Players Sc
we're Test Of Skill.
B Chick Evans.

~HlCAGO, Jan ls-ENery Amer 20
lean city of any considerable
size is striving these days for
the possession Of g golf course that
will rank with the best In the world;
ana this is really a worthy ambition
because good golfers can only be &c
veloped on good courses. In conse-
ouence OF this increased interest in
golf architecture there are now many
good courses Cleveland has It's
Msvfeld course. Detroit its Country
Club. ST. Louis its Country Club,
while Chicago has several that de-
serve to rank among the best, and
this little list ,is- typical rather than
inclusive
Everything marks a general awak-
ening in golf course construction dur
ing the last few years, and the be-
ginnings OF new tests OF the game
adjusted TO the present possibilities
OF ball and club.
Golf Has Hold In Atlanta.
These thoughts we're brought home
10 me as I played over the East Lake
at Atlanta a few weeks ago; Atlanta,
be IL known, is a great golfing town
and its inhabitants are fully awake
10 the possibilities Of first-c class
course | had been very familiar with
ago, but / found that many changes
hao been made and many more were
contem plated. | studied those changes
for four days and came to the con-
clusion that when they were COM
pleted Atlanta will have a course of
which any city might be proud.
Many of the holes on the new
course win be of the crook and elbow
SORT. and that is a very good thing,
because they demand good tee shots.
No. is over 400 yards, a length
that enables players to get away in
hne fashion. 1t permits as many as
three couples on the hole at once.
More traps will be placed and in the
placing Of the traps Mr.. Adair and |
Stewart Maiden will have the assist
91ce of Donald Ross.
No. 2 is a 137-yard mashie pitch
hole OF much character. The mashie
shot OF regulation height lands on
heavily bunkered green facing to-
ward the player and he can see the
red faces OF the pits on all sides. A
great fault of the old course was the
lack Of pitch shots and the new
course remedies this, for the shots
must be played in the air for there
are score-destroying difficulties all
around The second shots are mar
rowed up splendidly
No. VIII be a drive and pitch
hole The tee is at the base OF tall
pine, on the side of hill away from
the fence, Mr. Adair avoids the out
Of bounds penalty by placing the tees
near the fence and the line of play
away from it.
No. is 440- yard hole down an
avenue OF pits. The only bad fea-
ture is that the green is on a hill and
semi-blind.
Water Hazard at Sixth.
No. s Is 610yard, down-hill,
crooked hole. It requires two woods
and an iron shot
No 6 is a peculiar and good hole
except for the penalty of severe water
hazard. The green, a good sized one
on an island, is reached by a mashie
or light iron.
The tee shot at No. is exacting
Again the line is crooked, and there
are two or three lines TO the hole
No, S is great possible three hole.
il runs $50 yards across a bad valley,
and rewards the long straight driver,
No Q is the present eighteenth
good drive to the waters edge and a
full brassie home
At No. 10 one must play for q break
In the hill to tho left.
No. Il Is another good short hole
lls fenEtn is 40 yardS ana there is
ample reward for the we'll played
shot and serious trouble for the poor
one.
No. 1s Is a weak hole. The mounds
bordering its right are those of No. 10
and one can pulp over into No. 10 and
still get home,
No. IS is the old sixth, good drive
and an iron.
No. IA calls for a straight, hard tee
shot and a second shot little blind
over a diagonal bunker cut out OF the
side OF hill
No. IS is a long, swinging hole
through a tunnel of trees, as il we're.
II will be trapped for. a drive. a bras
sic and a pitch. The green will be
wing shaped
No l6 calls for a pretty drive and
half iron onto the old ninth green.
No, Il is drive across an arm OF
The lake onto a plateaulike eminenCe
and a half-iron shot TO a circus ring
green
No. rs will require a mashie shot
across the lake-a carry OF about 10
Nards-and from the low landing
place YOU will see the green high
above YOU.
Looking back IL will be seen that
the golfer has used on this course
every shot and every club in his bag.
even the neglected brassle Further
more. he viii have discovered that
the green's are varied, some fiat and
some rolling; that traps are thought
fully placed and although there are
ulenty Of trees around there are no
Tree hazards