Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-25
One Statistician Figures
That in Next Few
Years 1000 Links Will
Be in Working Order

WHO are those eager faced drifteFs who
w now are headed South? AS we'll
known bard has put it
| "Only the race that is loved of heaven
Whose path is the Ancient Green;
| Those who are buoyed by the heather's
| heaven,
| Whose brand il the iron keen;
Only the race with the brassle face
Who follows the sphere in long, stern
chase,
Who still put out as the stars of heaven
Put out to the twilight teen"
There was day not so long ago when
those golfers heading South had one or
two first-class places to head for.
Today golf courses are popping up with
such swlftness in all sections Of the country
that the u. s. of A. soon will be nothing
but well-trapped. deeply bunkered land
scape. teemlng with water hazards and re-
plete with sand dunes from Penobscot to
the Rio Gran1e,
One Course After Another
Golf courses today in every State of
the Union are bubbling out of the ground
like OIL
Some energetic but conservative statisti-
clan has figured that in the next few years
there will be 1000 courses in working order.
As each course averages 100 acres. this
will mean 100000 acres under golf cultiva-
tion, called upon to harbor and entertain
100000 golfers between the ages of seven
and eighty-two years, including all sexes
known to science.
Through the East, the Middle West, on
through the Far West, all through the
South courses are being built and new
ones are being planned
Four hundred thousand acres already In
shape, or being groomed for golf cultivation,
and the boom just getting under way
Winter Golf
In the meanwhile the South is ready for
the big army OF golf tourists, who already
are beginning to point in a southerly di-
rection.
There are two varieties of winter golf
one, the Florida type for those who de-
sire their summers on into midwinter; the
other. the Carolina and Georgia type, that
prefer more bracing weather and don't
mind a few occasional dips below the freez-
ing point.
Florida rapidly is developing into one
vast golf course, II one cares for golf
weather warm and woolly, such as grand
mother used to knit, there are Belleair,
Palm Beach and other favored spots Prob
ably the best Florida course to be found
now is at Bellealr, where Donald Ross has
arranged a championship stretch a hard
test for any man. where the greens are
made OF regular grass In place OF the sand
that has been the bulk OF Florida's vege-
tation for many centuries, II not longer.
But Belleair isn't the only spot for test
ing golf. over at Mountain Lake, about
ninety miles east from Belleair, there is
another course about ready that promises
TO be one OF the most popular In the South.
This course, laid out over a rolling country,
which doesn't predominant In Florida, was
arranged by S. ]. Raynor, one OF c. b.
McDonalds leading aids in building up the
National Links
Raynor Is ranked among the best golf
architects in America, and with the aid
OF many natural advantages has unfolded
one OF the hne courses OF the South at this
spot The rolling country about with a
big lake added, has proved 70 be an ideal
spot for an exceptionally interesting course
Further North
There Is golf in abundance at Jack
sonyille, Ormond, ST. Augustine and other
Florida centers. But there Is equally good
golf further north--at Pinshurst, Atlanta,
Ca. Augusta, and at Charleston and other
South Carolina courses.
The best golf further north is 10 be
found In Atlanta, Pinehurst and Augusta,
Atlanta has two championship courses.
IN East Lake and Druid Hills. both nne
tests that provide Al the thrills the aver
age tourist . looklnE Tor PiHehurst also.
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