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.

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~HICAGO, Jan l3,-EVery Amer
lean city Of any considerable
size is striving these days for
the possession Of a golf course that
win rank with the best in the world;
and this is really a worthy ambition
because good golfers can only be de-
welcomed on good courses. In conse-
ouence Of this increased interest IN
golf architecture there are now many
GOOD courses Cleveland has It's
Mavfcld course Detroit its Country
Club, ST Louis its Country Cup
while Chicago has several that de-
serve to rank among the best, ano
this little list is typical rather than
inclusive.
Everything marks general avak-
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
al Atlanta a few weeks ago. Atlanta,
be il known, is a great golfing town
and its inhabitants are fully awake
to the possibilities of first-ciass
course had been very familiar with
the East Lake links several years
a go. but / found that many changes
hau been made and many more were
contemplated. ! studied those changes
for four days and came to the con-
clusion that when they were com
pleted Atlanta will nave a 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. 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 nave the assist
snce of Donald Ross.
No. is a 1S7-yard mashie pitch
hole OF much character. The mashle
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.
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 arc mar
rowed up splendidly.
No. s will be drive and pitch
hole The tee is at the base of tall
pine, on the side of a 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, o
No. 4 is 440-yard hole down an
al, Nod
ture is that the green is on hill and
semi blind.
Water Hazard at Sixth.
No 5 is a 610Sard, down hill
crooked hole 1t requires two woods
and an iron shot
No. is a peculiar and n good hole
except for the penalty of severe water
hazard. The green, a good sized one
on an island, is reached by 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 a great possible-three hole.
II runs ESQ yards across a bad valley,
and rewards the long straight driver,
No. is the present eighteenth
good drive 10 the waters edge and a
fun brassie home
At No. 10 one must play for break
in the hill TO the left.
No II is another good short hole.
Its length is 175 yards and there is
ample reward for the we'll played
shot and serious trouble for the poor
one
No. 10 is a weak hole. The mounds
bordering its right are those OF No. 10
and one can pull over into No. 10 and
still set home
No. IS is the old sixth, a good drive
and an iron.
No. IA calls for a straight. hard tee
shot ard q second shot a little blind
over diagonal bunker cut out of the
side OF a hill.
No. Il is a long, swinging hole
through tunnel of trees, as it We're
Il will be trapped for drive, bras
sic and a pitch The green will BIT
wing sha ped
No. 16 calls for a pretty driye and
half iron onto the. old ninth green
No. II is a drive across an arm OF
he lake onto a plateaulike eminencc
and a half-iron shot 20 a circus ring
green.
No. IS will require mashie shot
across the lake-a carry OF about III
Vards-and from the low landing
place you will see the green higl
above you.
Looking back, il will be seen thai
TIE golfer has used ON this course
every shot and every club in his bag
even the neglected brassie Further.
more. he viii have discovered tina
The greens are varied, some fiat ant
some rolling; that traps are thought.
fully placed and although there ar,
plenty of trees around there are n,
rec hazards