New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

One Of the thoroughly wide-awake
INTO date golfng institutions Of the
United States is the Golf and Country
Club Of Great Neck.
The club IS very popular and has a
membership of about 900. The neces-
sitv of a second eighteen hole course
was realized before the war, when ad-
Sitionai ground for that purpose was
purchased.
The war caused halt in activities
but the dreams Of the members Will be
reality in 1920, as the club will thsn
have two full-fedged eighteen hole
courses The north course will have
length Of $40 yards and the south
course Viii be 6.3s5 yards long.
To Use Old Property
or course the old property will not
be discarded, as every foot of the
ground will be utilized. In fact, the
club now has g fine eighteen hole
course. more than 5000 yards in
length. which the members will play
over this season. Many of these holes
viii remain intact and will be used in
either one or the other OF the two
new courses. while in many cases the
putting greens and portion of the
fair green's will be used.
On the hill holes, where much of the
rev ground for the north course is
added, the holes at present run north
and south, while on the new north
course they run east and west, so the
fair greens will be the same, although
played over at different angles.
The play of this year will not inter
fere with the portions of the new
course which will be ready by May
Nine of the new holes on the south
course will be laid out on the meadow
land
Golf and country clubs Of large mem
bcrship fully realize the importance
Of maintaining two eighteen hole
courses in order to safeguard their
membership against the heavy CON
cestion at weekend and on holidays.
This important feature was recog
rIzed in the early days OF golf in this
country. when club membership had to
be limited and finally nine hole courses
had to be extended to eighteen holes.
Pinehurst Leads Way
Pinehurst, which became the mecca
Of golf in the United States during
the early spring, was the first Of the
American resorts forced to extend its
facilities by building second eighteen
hole course. Even this proved made
quate. and third eighteen-hole course
had to be laid out, and this is scarcely
sufficient now to meet the demand.
The Marion Cricket Club, Of the
Philadelphia district. was the first OF
the private clubs to install a second
eighteen-hole course, and it not only
solved the problem Of supplying the
started the other big clubs to thinking
The Essex County Country Club, Of
Hutton Park. West Orange. opened its
second eighteenhole course last spring,
and the two courses were well patron
ized during the summer.
The Baltusrol Golf Club has pur-
chased sufficient additional property
for Il second eighteen-hole course, and
The work OF construction is progress
ing finely. The Plainfeld Country Club
has acquired sixty adjoining acres and
will lay out a nine-hole course and
reconstruct its eighteen-hole course.
The Improvements at Great Neck are
more extensive than at any other course
80 ING "leO4O p04lVaA O4S1llct, 4Of IN aCQl-
ton to the two new courses an elaborate
clubhouse and massive bathing
pavilion are to be built on the shore
Of Little Neck Bay, near the new sew
enteenth mole Of the south course, where
The members can enjoy salt water bath
ing.
North Course
Tne first hole which is short one
IT 10 yards. and absolutely new. ex-
'snds from the clubhouse to a new green
wear the old tenth tee, of $50 yards.
which will be the new second hole. The
'nird Is an elbow hole Of 40 yards and
'Dsolutely new, as IS the fourth, an
elbow hole Of $40 yards.
Coming back on the old thirteenth
,Arwsy FOR the fifth hole, which ex-
ends away beyond it into new ground