Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-26
Make the Golf Links a Reality
Everyone on the Five Mile Beach
can and Should be a Member of
the Wildwood Golf Club

~ HE Golf committee of the Board of Trade, a new commit
tee that is not more than two weeks old, has secured a
temporary site for a golf course on the east side of Surf
avenue, between 18th avenue and the approach to the
Wildwood Manor. This temporary site is big enough to
make a regulation nine hole course and the North Wildwood Land
Company has loaned this ground to the committee for a period
long enough to accommodate the game for the 1913 and 1919
season, very likely for a longer period if desired. The establish
ment of a golf site will mean a wonderful aid to the greater de-
velopment of this beach. In southern resorts, where golf links
were built, hotel failures were turned into financial successes.
Big attractions bring wealthy patrons.
A Golf Course, in itself, means merely a retreat for the pass
ing of time in a pleasurabe manner, but when it is looked upon as
a business proposition, these factors clearly emphasize their i'm
portance:
IA Golf Course will bring here a greater number of desirable
people who already enjoy this great game at other places.
2-It should lengthen the Wildwood season from two to four or
even six months.
st will assure recreation to our local men and women, for the
playing of this game is one that grows on a person after he
has learned the rudiments of the pasime.
A heightened season means greater business for the hotel man,
the grocer, the general merchant, the mechanic, and in
fact all lines of business, including the financial institutions.
To make this project a success, four hundred memberships at
five dollars per year are required. This membership money will
provide maintenance fund and the initial season will require at
least a sum of two thousand dollars to put the links in condition.
Every business man, every hotel proprietor, in fact everyone
interested in the greater welfare of Wildwood should send their
membership fee of five dollars Immediately. The committee urges
that those who are able. to, and mostly benefited by this great
asset to Wildwood, should take as many additional memberships
as possible for the first year, thus enabling the golf committee to
hasten the completion OF the course. Each membership VIII give
one person the right to play for the season. Hotels taking mem
berships will give them the right and privilege to issue cards to
their guests, which on presentation and a nominal payment of so
cents per day, will give them the privilege of the course. The
committee can not urge you too strongly to fill out and mail your
coupon today to the chairman. Unless this is done the entire
project will be dropped, and unless the full amount is subscribed
all moneys will be refunded to the sender.
The committee will be glad to have volunteers to assist in get
ting the course in shape on account of the present labor situation.
If you are in favor of the project, and you should be, send
remittance to W. Courtwnght Smith, managing secretary of the
Board of Trade, and please do so at once, as it is imperative that the
course be started Immediately to have it ready for this season.
The committee hopes to have the course completed by August 20.