New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Essex County C.. G. in Fore
With Too 18-H0Ze Courses

though the club has fine eighteen
hole course of $3.50 yards.
The club was one of the very first
to realize the necessity of expansion,
and no time was lost in acquiring addi-
dltional desirable property and laying
out second eighteen holes to provide
for the overflow, and it will be the first
of the several big clubs in this section
of the country to have two full eigh-
teen hole courses in operation.
All-Club Match Opening
The Essex County Country Club is
therefore the leader in the two-course
production, as the work on its second
course. which is laid out on the top of
the Orange mountains, was commenced
about year ago, and the course is
present, although it will not be formal
ly opened until June Is, when the event
will be an all-club match, with the
teams matched as closely as possible,
according to their handicaps.
The course was laid out by Peter W.
Lees, of Lynbrook, L. l., who made
record on his putting greens, which
were seeded down last August and in
five weeks were ready for play. The
course is highly spoken of by experts.
1t is 6,135 yards in length, the first
nine being 3,070 and the second nine
3,065. An absolutely straight ball down
the centre of the course will not be
punished, but slice or pull will be
in trouble almost from start to finish.
Owing to the difficulty in getting sand
up on top of the mountain, many Of
the traps and bunkers have to be made
into grass bunkers. They IRE dug out
the same as on other courses, but in
stead of being filled with sand. are
seeded and become turf traps and pits
There is a temporary structure near
the first tee and eighteenth green,
which will be the starting point and
will serve for clubhouse until more
suitable structure can be erected.
New Course Most Severe
The old course, which is widely
known, is good one, but it is no COM
parison in severity with the new one.
The first is a two shot hole of 433
yards, the tee shot being slightly up
hill, but the second shot to the green
must be accurate. Pretty nearly the
hole of 241 yards, while the third is
short hole of 184 yards, but there is
trouble all around it.
Sportiest of all is the fourth, of 478
yards, a double dog leg hole with a
water hazard. 1t takes d good full
drive to reach the first angle, and a
pull brassing shot to clear the lake and
reach the second angle, and then it is
only mashie pitch to the green.
=. The fifth hole is 303 yards long, the
line of play being over hill to a
green at the bottom. There is trouble
on both sides of the fairway and all
around.
A beautiful dog leg hole of 423 yards
IS the sixth. A good two shot hole is
the seventh, slightly up hill and a
trile dog legged, with trouble all
around the green. The eighth is dog
leg hole of 329 yards, and in order to
reach the green in two the drive has
to be carefully placed
yards in length, and the green is easily
reached from the tee, it is very es-
sent!al that the green be held after IL
is reached, as there is trouble all
around.
Tenth Hole Longest
The tenth is the longest hole on the
course, 516 yards, plenty wide. Another
short hole that is anything but cinch
is the eleventh, of ITO yards. where f
is only pitch, which depends largely
on where you land and where YOU re-
main. as there are grinning hazards
on all sides.
The twelfth hole of 231 yards re-
quires good drive, but it must he
we'll placed to reach the green on the
second. Playing the thirteenth hole.
385 yards, the tee shot has to be-
played to the right. The fourteenth
hole, of 419 yards, is not difficult if
played straight, but, like all the others.
1t has its faults if you get off the line.
A sort OF an elbow hole is met on the
fifteenth, of 1913 yards.
A long tee shot is required on the
sixteenth, 1856 yards, a dog Leo hole
to clear a clump of trees that are too
high to be played over in case of the
tee saot being short. Playing the sew
enteenth, 306 yards, a good drive will
carry the roadway, and the green can
be reached in two, while the eighteenth
hole OF s73 yards is two good straight
shots up hill. ~