Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
ATHLET|C CLUB
WILL HAVE BEST
LINKS IN SOUTH
Expert Declares Many Changes
viii Give Best Players Sc
we're lest of Skill,
+ Chick Evans.

lean city Of any considerable
size is striving these days for
the possession Of golf course that
will rank with the best in the world;
and this is really q worthy ambition
because good golfers can only he de
yeloped on good courses. In conse-
aucnce of this increased interest In
Golf architecture there are now many
good courses cleveland has IT'S
Nayfeld course Detroit its Country
olub - Louis its Country Club,
while Chicago has several that &C
serve to rank among the best, and
This little list is typical rather IMAM
inclusive
Everything marks general aWak-
cnmg i'm 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 were brought home
80 me as 7 played over the East Lake
at Atlanta few weeks ago; Atlanta,
be it known. is a great golting town
and its inhabitants are fully awake
to the possibilities Of first-class
course | had been very familiar with
the East Lake links several years
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had been made and many more were
contemplated studied those changes
for four days and came to the con-
rusion that when they were com
pleted Atlanta will have = course of
which any city might be proud.
Many OF the holes on the new
course will 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 length
that enables players to get away IN
fine fashion. II permits as many as
three couples on the hole at once.
More traps win be placed and in the
placing of the traps Mr. Adair and
Stewart Maiden will have the assist
ance OF Donald Ross
No . is a 137yard 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 TIE second shots are mar
rowed up splendidly.
No. 3 will be drive end pitch
hole The tee is at the base of n 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 1t.
No. 4 is a 440-yard hole down an
avenue of pits, The only bad fea-
ture is that the green Is on hill and
semi blind.
Water Hazard at Sixth.
No. > is a 6l0-yard, down-hill,
crooked hole. II requires two woods
and an iron shot
No. is peculiar and q good hole
except for the penalty of severe water
hazard. The green, good sized one
on an island, is reached 10y mashle
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. 9 is the present eighteenth
good drive to the waters edge and
fun brassie home
At No. 10 one must play for break
In the hin to the left.
No. II is another good short hole
lis length is us yards and there is
ample reward for the we'll played
shot and serious trouble for the poor
one
No L. is a weak hole The mounds
bordering its right'are those of No. 10
and one can pull over into No. lS and
still get home.
No 10 is the old sixth, a good drive
and an iron
No IA calls for straight. hard tee
shot and a second shot a little blind
over diagonal bunker cut out of the
side of hill.
No. - is a long, swinging hole
through a tunnel of trees, as it were.
it will be trapped for drive bras
sic and pitch. The green will he
wing shaped.
No. 16 calls for a pretty drive and
half iron onto the old ninth green.
No Il is drive across an arm OF
The lake onto plateaulike eminence
and a half iron shot to a circus ring
green
No IS will require mashie shot
across the lake-a carry OF about ITO
yards-and from the low landing
place you will see the green high
aoove you.
Looking back, It will be seen that
the golfer has used on this course
every shot and every club in his bag
even the neglected brassie. Further
more. he will have discovered that
the greens are varied, some fiat and
some rolling: that traps are thought.
fully placed and although there are
l!entv OF trees around there are n,
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