Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-10

IIyHEN the most prominent golf amateurs
w in the country and the leading profes'
sionals declare that the Pine Valley got
course is the greatest links In this country
II not in the world; when one Of the men
who was instrumental in laying out the
National Golf Links, long considered so tar
above other American courses as TO be IN
a class by itself, goes on record oy stathB
that the peer Of all links is Pine valley
Il is no wonder that the writer Of golf mat
ters should give more space to 1t than 10
any other Philadelphia course
Pine Valley is 80 remarkable In so many
different ways that II is almost impossible
70 select one and dwell upon 1t to the
exclusion Of others But when II Is re-
membered that with only fourteen holes
to play, on every one OF which the player
tees his ball in the fairwav after every
shot, Pine Valley has a waiting list, II is
not difficult to understand the lure Of that
famous course.
Those who have played at the Valley, and
n you play once you want to play score
of times, are more or less familiar with the
fourteen holes now in play. But the .holes
which are not ready for play are even more
marvellous. And possibly the most wonder
ful of these are the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth.
Barnes Lauds Thirteenth
Jim Barnes has already gone on record
by saying that the thirteenth is the most
wonderful two-shot hole he has ever seen.
Joe Bole. for many years the champion OF
Ohio told George Crump last Friday that
he had seen what he thought was the
finest two-shotter at Hyannis, which is on
Cape Cod And after he was through de-
scribing II George Crump told him that
the thirteenth was the same hole. only that
the position was slightly reversed At
Hyanns the difficulty is to the right, at
Pine Valley It is to the left. Otherwise
the holes are similar.
In the first place, II will take a very
good drive to get into a position for the
second. Between the tee and green there
is series Of rolling hills with small val
leys. If the tee shot fails to get up to
the top of the first two of these hills the
green Is blind and It is impossible to make
the green on the second shot Approaching
the green to the left is the side of a hill.
This side will be cut away enough to ex-
pose the sand so that from the next green
II will resemble a huge bunker, bigger than
anything they now have at Pine Valley,
already the home of the big bunkers and
deep traps. The ground cuts into the fair
way so that the green sticks out like the
lower end Of a buttonhook. To the right
the shrubbery will be cleared away for the
falrway. The man who car hit a long,
straight second shot can pitch his ball
SlIdlBul On 10 lnb green WIN IUe hHOWleuB6
that 1t will stick II he deviates from the
narrow straight line he will find this great
hillside trap.
A Widened Fairway
For the timorous players there is the
widened fairway to the right but short Of
the green and a shot to this space makes
the hole a three-shotter not molly for the
man who makes a long tee shot and dares
not try the long second, but for the man
who fails to hit long and far from the tee.
II is all or nothing. From tee to green