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

~HICAGO, Jan lS.-ENery Amer
lean CITY OF any considerable
size is striving these days tof
the possession Of golf course that
win rank with the best in the world :
and this is really worthy am ol'ioh
because GOOD golfers can only be de-
,.sioDad an good courses. In conSe-
ouence OF this increased interest III
golf architecture there are now many
GOOD courses Cleveland has its
Mayfield course, Detroit its Country
Climb ST Louis its Country Gun,
while Chicago has several that De
serve TO rank among the best and
this little list is typical rather IMAM
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 were brought home
10 me as / plaved over the East Lake
at Atlanta a few weeks ago; Atlanta,
be 1t known, is a great goliing town
and IT'S inhabitants are fully awake
10 the possibilities Of first-class
course | had been very familiar with
the East Lake links several years
ago. but ! found that many changes
hao been made and many more were
contemplated I 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 will be of the crook and elbow
sort, and that is very good thing.
because they demand good tee shots.
No is over 400 Yards, a length
that enables players to get away in
fine fashion. Ii permits as many as
three couples on the hole at once.
More traps will be placed and in the
placing of the traps Mr.. AdaiI and
Stewart Maiden will have the assist
ance OF Donald Ross.
No 2 is a 137yard ma SHE pitCA
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 fafil: 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. will be a drive and pitch
hole The tee is at the base of tall
pine, on the side of hill aNaN 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 a 440-yard hole down an
avenue of pits The only bad flea
ture is that the green is on a hill and
semi blind
Water Hazard at Sixth.
No is a 6l0-yard, down hill
crooked hole 1t requires two woods
and an iron shot
No s is a peculiar and a 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 I is eXactlng.
Again the line is crooked. and there
are two or three lines to the hole.
No. is a great possible three hole,
il runs $50 yards across bad valley.
and rewards the long straight driver.
No. . is the present eighteenth-a
GOOD drive TO the waters edge and a
tull brassie home
AT No. 10 one must play for break
In the hill TO tho left.
No. II is another good short hole
lis length is l75 yards and there is
ample reward for the we'll play ed
shot and serious trouble for the poor
one.
No. l2 is weak hole. The mounds
bordering its right are those of No. 10
and one can pull over into No. Is and
stll get home.
No. 70 is the old sixth, a good drive
and an iron
No. "A calls for straight hard tee
shot and a second shot a little blind
over a diagonal bunker cut out Of the
side OF hill
No 10 is long swinging hole
through a tunnel of trees. as il were
/, win be trapped for drive, bras
sic and a pitch The green viii b,
wing shaped
No. l6 calls for a pretty drive ano
half iron onto the old ninth green
No II Is a drive across an arm o.
The lake onto a plateaulike eminenC'
and half-iron shot to a circus rims
green.
No. rs viii require a msshie sho
across the lske-a carry OF about ~
NarGs-and from the low landing
place YOU will see the green higl
shove YOU,
Looking back. it viii be seen tina
thc golfer has used on this cours,
avery shot and every club in his bag
even the neglected brassie Further
more. he win have discovered tina
the greens are varied, some Hat ant
some rolling that traps are thought
fully placed and although there ar,
plenty Of trees around there are n,
tree hazards