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.
Bv Chick Evans.

THAVE just read an article by Hen
nv Leach in The London Evening
Mail that stamps him as the
greatest imaginative golf architect il,
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 a s reality
In midocean on one of his many jour
neys.
In the construction OF this wonder
flil 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
tea.
Their first labor was to shrink the
earth. COMPRISING the gofing turns
70 about 6,400 yards, the proper length
Of a first-Class course.
Naturally Mr.. Leach planned the
clubhouse OF the World Golf and
Country Club near London. There
are two tees, zone ordinary one at
Mid Surrey and medal tee at sun
ningdale."
The fire. hole is a short one-across
the water to La Boule. with the Eng
hsh 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 81.
Petersburg TO stantinople, and
the putting green is just outside the
Turkish capital. 1t is over this hole
thai he calls the Carpathians that
Mr.. Leach wakes particularly enthu-
siastic. aim
Third Hole Requires Skill.
I'VE cali this hole The Carpathians'
because that line of mountains comes
into consideration. It is GOOD hali-
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
be TOO close to the flag AS 1t Is In a
calm II is delightful test of real skill
IN iron play. The Black Sea gets
pulled ball, one that is little too
strong is over the green and INTO the
sfarfrora or the Aegean, bad sllce
will he off into the Adriatic and a
fopped ball is caught by the Carpa-
thians. 1t is a lovely hole. / think
though. that when the wind Is from
the west IL will be fairer II we move
the flag out to Scutari.
The fourth is drive and an IRON
down 10 Pretoria. ut is played as
dog legged hole, for the player shou,d
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 sho's
from Madaga scar to sydney, Aus
tralia Perhaps, he says, ii would be
necessary to make an island niue
west of Perth for the tee shot to
reach.
The seventh hole is a drive and a
cIeek from Sydney to the Royal cum
at Calcutta. The tee shot must De
nicely placed on Borneo:
"The eighth Is blind mole over tne
Rimalayas 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 long water
hole to Cape Horn, the twelfth greer
Is al Buenos Ayres. the thirteenth al
Mexico City, requiring an absolutely
perfect cleek shot along the lsthmuS
Of Panama: the fourteenth goes &c
San Francisco, the fifteenth to inc
National Golf Links on Long lslano
the sixteenth to Quebec. the seven
tenth TO Madrid and the eighteenth
green alongside the shop of the lat'
Tom Morris at St. Andrews, which Il
somehow a natural sort Of finish t'
the best golf Imaginable"
Truly a wonderful course. MT
Leach thinks the gods, perhaps, have
already found the great super-hnK
and at nighttime. when the Worl'
sleeps. Jupiter. Mars. Apollo and Her
cules play their mighty foursome
upon Il. a.,
There Is only one little nav 70 thl
marvellous course-Atlanta is lelt gu
and Juniter and Hercules could no
NAV foursomes and leave Atlanta out