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

lCAn CITY OF HIiN AblloiN'i eh'''
size - striving these days for
ths possession or 2 golf course that
will rank with the best IN the world
and this is really worthy ambition
because good golfers can only be De
veloped on good courses. In conse-
uuence Of this increased interest IN
golf architecture there are now many
good courses Cleveland has its
Msyfe1d course, Detroit It's Country
Club, ST. Louis its Country Cluo,
while Chicago has several that De
serve 10 rank among the best, and
this little list is typical rather than
inclusive
Everything marks general awsk-
ey1iug in golf course construction dur
ing the last few years, and the be
ginntngs 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 | played over the East Lake
at Atlanta a few weeks ago; Atlanta,
be II known, is q great golfing town
and its inha bitants are fully awake
10 the possibilities OF rst-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. | 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 win be of the crook and elbow
sort and that is a very good thing,
because they demand good tee shots,
d. ride
HAT enables players TO get away in
fine fashion. 1t permits as many as
three couples on the hole at once.
More traps win he placed and in the
placing Of the traps Mr., Adair and !
Stewart Maiden will have the assist
aace OF Donald Ross.
No . is a 137-yard 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 or al! 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 core-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 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 II.
No 4 is a 44o-ysrd hole down an
avenue OF pits, The only bad fea-
ture Is that the green is on q hill and
semi blind.
Water Hazard at Sixth.
No. is 610yard, 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 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 bad valley,
and rewards the long straight driver,
No. is the present eighteenth-s
good drive To the waters edge and
full brassle home
At No. 10 one must play for break
in the hill to the left.
No. IL is another good short hole.
It's length Is 175 yards and there is
ample reward for the wellplayed
shot and serious trouble for the poor
one
No. 1e IS a weak hole. The mounds
bordering its right are those OF No, 10
and one can pull over into No. Is and
stili get home.
No. 10 is the old sixth, good drive
end an iron.
No. "a calls for straight hard tee
shot and a second shot n little blind
over a diagonal bunker cut out Of the
side OF hill.
No. Is is a long, swinging hole
through a tunnel OF trees. as ii were.
It will he trapped for a drive. bras
sic and pitch. The green VIII be
wing shaped
No l6 calls for a pretty drive and
half iron onto the old ninth green.
No II is a drive across an arm Of
he lake onto a plateaulike eminenCe
and half-iron shot to a circus ring
green
No. IS viii require a msshie shot
across the lake--a carry Of about ITO
Nards-and from the low landing
place YOU will see the green high
above YOU.
Looking back. II 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
he green's are varied, some nat and
some rolling. that traps are thought
fully placed and although there are
plenty Of trees around there are no
tree hazards