New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Morris County Golf Links
10 Rank With Best inland

down on these last two holes and the
stumps removed at She same time that
class OF work was done on the other
holes. and all that is necessary to be
done now is to build the tees and put
ting greens and plough and seed the
fair greens.
That work doubtless will be done be-
tween now and next spring. The club
mas large flock of sheep. which is con-
sidercd q great benefit to the course
The Course Described
The course when completed will be
as follows;
The first hole Is 333 yards in length.
with a tee % feet wide and 100 feet
long on the edge of hill. The safest
way is to play down the centre of the
course. The green is spacious, but
heavily trapped. There is sand trap
four feet deep running along the left
side of the green and on the right side
there is a similar trap, from four to
twelve feet below the level of the
green.
The second hole is ATS yards long.
The tee is fifty feet wide, facing the
green, and extends back 25 feet There
is 100 yards carry over rough to the
fair green. The top Of the hill is
about 250 yards from the tee. Then it
IS al uOWn MIL to the green.
One of the sportiest holes on the
course Is the third, of i20 yards, and
all carry.
The fourth hole of 425 yards has
tee 20 feet wide and 100 feet long.
There is carry of 100 yards from the
tee to the top of hill. Fair going to
green.
The two unfinished holes are the
NTH, of ESQ yards and the sixth, of 320
yards. They will both be very sporty.
The seventh, of $50 yards, now thu
temporary thirteenth, has a teeing
ground 80 feet long facing the green
and 25 feet deep.
The eighth hole of 400 yards, has an
W shaped tee about 80 feet front and
from II to 25 feet deep There is q
carry over rough to the fair green of
$50 yards
The ninth hole Of 44o yards, now the
temporary fifteenth, is slightly up
grade from the tee to green. which ia
heavily bunkered
The tenth, 435 wards, Is back down
grade to the railroad tracks to an old
green, which has been remodelled and
heavily trapped.
Hollows in Green
The eleventh, 500 yards, which is
now the temporary first hole. has an
undulatlng fair green. There are sew
eral slight hollows but good lies. The
green is about 100 feet square with
rough grass on both sides and back,
and big sand trap on the left ap-
proach.
The twelfth hole is 32o yards long.
with a carry Of 100 yards, over a deep,
dry basin full of long grass, to the
fair green. A topped ball will be badly
punished.
There is grass tee 100 feet long
and 20 feet wide for the thirteenth
hole. Of 1870 yards. The fair green is
wavy and a trife rough, but the hole
is practically all carry:
There 's carry of $50 yards from
tee to fair green over a pond from the
tee up the fourteenth hole of 3e5
yards.
The fifteenth hole is 225 yards long.
lhere is good fairway, slightly down
grade.
VIII the tee at the corner of the
woods and carry of so yards over a
ditch and rough ground to the fair
green, the sixteenth hole. of $50 yards,
is not very difficult co play
The short holes are the ones which
are most feared The seventeenth is
only 160 yards. The tee is 25 feet wide
and 80 feet long, facing this green.
Ihere ~ rough dip tor fifty yards in
front of the tee. good lie can be had
100 yards from the tee with a pitch
to the green, which Is raised on sides
and back from four to twenty feet.
A pulled ball has no chance on earth.
as it will go into an unplayable rough.
1t Is really case OF all carry from tee
to green.
The eighteenth hole is 405 yards
long. The tee is rs feet wide and 100
long. There is n carry of 100 yards
over a basin and rough grass to the
fair green, which is wavy, but good
lies are to be had The green is fully
100 fcct square. Bunker full length
Of green to right. while the appronch
to the green is from hollow over the
slant OF hill that runs from the
woods down to the lake.