Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-10
ENGLISH GOLFER
PLANS LINKS To
COVER WORLD
Henry Leach Uses Cities of
Various Nations as Holes
on Course.
By Chick Evans.

THAVE just read an article by Hem
ry Leach in The London Evening
Mail that stamps him as the
greatest Imaginative golf architect II,
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
hemispheres-Came to him as reality
in midocean 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,
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 gofing turns
to about $500 yards, the proper length
Of a frst-class course.
Naturally Mr.. Leach planned the
clubhouse of the World Golf and
Country Club near London. There
are two tees, "one ordinary one at
Mid Surrey and medal tee at Sun
ningdalc"
The firs' hole is 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
tersburg. The third hole Is from st
Petersburg TO Stantinople. and
the putting green Is Just outside the
Turkish capital 1t is over this hole
that he calls the Carpathians that
Mr.. Leach wakes particularly enthu-
siastic 80,
Third Hole Requires Skill.
1--WE call this hole The Carpathians
because that line of mountains comes
into consideration. It Is a good haif-
iron shot in normal circumstances,
but IL needs to be played to the right
with hook. as you could not pitch
from st. Petersburg into Turkey and
stav there. and the Black Sea would
he too close to the flag. AS II Is. In
calm II is a delightful test OF real skill
In iron play. The Black Sea gets
pulled ball one that is little TOO
strong is ever the green and into the
Marmora or the Aegean, a bad slice
viii be off into the Adriatic and
topped ball is caught by the Carpa-
thans 1t is a lovely hole, | think
though that when the wind Is from
the west II will be fairer II we move
the flag out to Scutari.'
The fourth is drive and an IRON
down TO Pretoria. 1T is played as
dog legged hole. for the player should
place his drive out toward the gold
coast to avoid the sandy lie he might
get In the Soudan.'
The fifth hole is from Cape Town
To Madagascar and then comes long
sixth-two fine wooden club shots
from Madagascar to sydney, Aus
tralia. Perhaps he says, II would be
necessary to make an island little
west OF Perth for the tee shot to
reach.
The seventh hole is a drive and
cleek from sydney TO the Royal Club
at Calcutta THE tee shot must be
nicely placed on Borneo.
THE eighth is a blind hole over the
Himalayas to Peliin" 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 at Buenos Ayres, the thirteenth at
Mexico City requiring an absolutely
perfect cleek shot along the lsthmus
nf Panama; the fourteenth goes 10
San Francisco. the fifteenth to the
National Golf Links on Long Island,
the sixteenth to Quebec. the seven
teenth 10 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 L.
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