Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-28

LAST NINE HOLES AT ARONIMINK
\ REMOVE THE IMPRESSION THAT
/ THE COURSE IS EASY FOR GOLFERS
Outgoing Journey Is Not Difficult, But Most
h Players Change Minds When They Start
IN Round for Home

ayHE first impression that the golfer gets
"A III who plays over the course of the Aroni
ssink Country Club, where the class tour
lament and midsummer handicap is being
sfared, Is that It Is very easy, The visitor
= ant to play the first nine holes in four
or Ave strokes under even fives, and as a
natter of fact, 1t Is not difficult to make a
N or 3S on the outgoing nine. But the in
journey soon will put the golfer right, and
he soon finds out that Aronimink has re-
carved the hardest part of the course COM
ing home This was seen IN the qualifying
rornd for the class tournament Several Of
The players shot under 40 and perhaps some
Of them got the idea they were going To
eat the course alive. They were soon die
illusioned and most of them were over even
Ave for the last nine when they handed in
their scores.
( The arrangement of the holes at Aron-
mink does not suit either visitor or mem
ber but after the two new holes are thrown
open there VIII be an adjustment of the
holes. At present not only are tho ,ast
nine holes the hardest golf on the course
but there is more of physical strain on the
players, as there are hills to climb and
particularly the ascent from the seventeenth
green to the eighteenth tee takes the wind
out Of the players more than any other
climb on the course. Most golfers are ant to
get tired shortly before this point and if tho
day is hot, as 1t was on Thursday. these
climbs take lot of pepper out of the
players. The par on these holes Is hard
enough without making it harder by the
long toll up the hills
First Nine Holes Are Easy
The golfer who is getting his toe shots
away cleanly and is landing his approaches
near the green Is not going to be bothered
with the first nine holes. But he finds n
different state of affairs when he begins 70
play the second nine and the first thing be
knows he is pressing to get par on I.oles
where 1t was easy work a few minutes he
fore. This and the climbs begin to tell on
his scoring and in no time at all the total
begins to mount.
These tournaments are the first the Aron-
mink Club has ever staged Two weeks
ago the green's We're as fine stretch of turf
IS could be found in Philadelphia. On the
day Of the qualifying round while the
green's were true except on one or two
holes great many of them reserbled a
NANCY dog with turf here and there and
then stretches of burnt out grass. And
there Is no course around Philadelphia
where the greenkeeper has prided himself
more than at Aronimink. Frank Jones
who will be remembered as the man who
kept the Belmont cricket crease in such
wonderful condition, has had charge of the
green's at Aronimink since the club opened
the course. He is an intelligent greenkeeper
and he has made a study of soil conditions.
but some of the greens which have burnt
out are a puzzle to him.
Says Humus Burned Out Greens
One Of the members said the trouble was
that a large amount of humus was put on
tho green's a day or so before the heavy
storms Of week or so ago drenched Phila
delphia. The chief property of humus is