New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-26
Golf Gossip

Pat Doyle, Of Deal, and Peter O,Hara,
Of Haworth, are old hands at team
work. They played together as team
on the other side before coming to this
country, and Peter O'Hara says they
beat everything cover there" and never
lost match. Therefore If they team
up on this side as we'll as they did in
Ireland. 1t will 60 kind of hard to-day
with Cyril Walker and Carl Anderson,
when they meet the Irish combination
in four-ball match over the links of
the Shackamaxon Country Club.
The course is $500 yards in length.
with par Of 72, and. although a COM
paratively new course. Is most ex-
cellent test of golf. Cyril Walker
holds the professional record at SO.
The course is not difficult if every
shot is played perfectly. but there are
so many water hazards that player
is in trouble before he realizes it, as
all the greens are heavily tapped, while
the ninth green is on a small island,
and can only be held on the second
shot by putting a good back spin on
the ball. 1t is dog-leg hole of 324
yards, with a par of 4.
Professionals do not have as much
trouble in negotiating this hole as the
when they get it in par.
A short time ago when Isaac Mackie
and Cyril Walker beat Carl Anderson
and Bird Entwistle by up and 4 to
play, they had a best ball of 70. which
is par, to 10; but it was the first time
Entwistle ever played over the course,
and about the second time for Ander-
son. which gave the other two a de-
cided advantage.
The Father and Son (Pater ct Filius)
tournament inaugurated in 1915, not
having been held since 1917 on account
of the war, will be resumed at Sleepy
Hollow in June of the coming year.
The winners in 1915 were Charles D.
Cooke and Everett B. Cooke; in 1916,
Devereaux Emmett and Devereaux En-
met, jr.; in 1917, Albert B. Ashforth
and Henry Adams Ashforth. The club
has very interesting course of 6,131
yards in length, with par of 70.
Now that the war is over the Norris
County Golf Club will carry out its
contemplated improvements. Ground
will be broken in the spring for the
new clubhouse, which will be located
on the highest hill on the property.
The new fifth and sixth holes are to
be completed N the early spring, so
that the full new eighteen holes will
lie on the far side Of the track and
the two old temporary holes of the old
course will be abandoned. The six new
putting greens destroyed by the grub
worms, which have been ploughed up
and made over, will doubtless be in
playable condition by the latter part
of May or early in June, when the new
course will be something over six thou
sand yards in length.
The new improvements that are to
be made to the Deal Golf and Country
Club course will not add much if any
they will make it far more difficult
to negotiate. The club had been award
ed the New Jersey state championship
before war was declared, and they fully
expect that same decision to hold good
in 1919.
The filing In Of the swamp at Dyker
Park by the city will give the Marine
and Field Club ample room for several
good large holes, and they anticipate
making some great Improvements i'll
the playing length next season.
The Baltusrol and Great Neck Golf
clubs are two of the big clubs in the
metropolitan district that have fully
decided upon looking after the comforts
of their large membership, and it will
not be long before they follow the ex-
ample of the Essex County Country
Clue and lay out q SECOND eighteen
hole course for the benefit of the over
flow, and not take chance of losing
their members for lack of accommo-
dation on week ends. when the course
is taxed to its utmost capacity and
members have to visit other courses
in order to get a game. Both these
clubs have secured the property, and it
is only matter of time till they build
their additional courses.