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

~HICAGO. Jan 13.-ENery Amer
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 a worthy ambition
because good golfers can only be de-
veIoped on good courses. In ConSe-
ouence of this increased interest in
golf architecture there are now many
good courses cleveland has ITS
Mayfield 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 general awak-
euing 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 cub
Golf Has Hold in Atlanta.
These thoughts were brought home
10 me as | played over the East Lake
at Atlanta a few weeks ago. Atlanta,
he it known, is a great golfing town
and its inhabitants are fully awake
to the possibilities of a first-Class
course / had been very familiar with
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ago but ] found that many changes
haa been made and many more were
contemplated. | studied those changes
for four days and came to the CON
CuSion that when they were COM
rleted 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 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. Adair and
Stewart Maiden viii have the assist
ance of Donald Ross.
No is a l37-yard ashie pitch
hole of much character. The mashie
shot of regulation height lands on u
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 t!;ts foF 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 drive and pitch
hole. The tee is at the base of a 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 1t,
No. is a 44O-yard hole down an
avenue of pits. The only bad fea-
lure is that the green is on 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. 6 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 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 a great possible three hole
II runs $50 yards across a bad valley
and rewards the long straight driver,
No, . is the present eighteenth--a
good drive to the waters edge and a
fun brassie home
AT No 10 one must play for a break
In the hill to the left
No. II is another good short hole.
lis length is Ia yards and there is
ample reward for the we'll played
shot and serious trouble for the poor
one.
No. - is a weak hole The mounds
bordering its right are those of No. 10
and one can pull over into No. IS and
sim get home.
No. 3 is the ola sixth. a good drive
and an iron.
No. Ia calls for a straight hard tee
Slot and second shot little blind
over a diagonal bunker cut out of the
side of a hill.
No. Is is long, swinging hole
through a tunnel of trees, as 1t were.
II will be trapped for a drive a bras
sic and a pitch The green will be
wing shaped
No. 10 calls for a pretty drive and
half iron onto the old ninth green.
No. Il is a drive across an arm OF
the lake onto a plateaulike eminence
and half-iron shot 10 a circus ring
green
No. Is will require ma SHE shot
across the lake--a carry OF about 10
yards-and from the low landing
place YOU will see the green high
above YOU.
Looking back. il will be seen that
tire golfer has used on this course
every shot and every club in his bag
even the neglected brassie Further
more. he win have discovered tina;
the greens are varied, some fiat an0
some rolling; that traps are thought
fully placed and although there are
rleuty of trees around there are nc
tree hazards