The New York herald., 1922-08-14
INWOOD CLUB BUSY
IMPROVING COURSE
Scheme of Changes Will Add
400 Yards to Round, With
Many New Greens.
by KERR N. PETRIE.

That the Inwood Country Club. the
1923 national open championship
assignee. Is tackling the problems at
teodant on the staging of the classic in
that broad spirit of cooperation which
makes for success Is shown by the
frank statement OF A. F. Steiner, the
president, that his organization well
comes constructive criticism and sug-
gestions which have as their aim the
strengthening and Improvement Of the
links. Mr.. Steiner's letter is in refer
ence to recent article in this column
which drew attention to the sequence
OF short holes marring the incoming
nine at Skokie in this years champion
ship. The moral. OF course. was tha'
IL there are such weaknesses on the
Inwood course this club. with a year
in which to prepare. Immediately should
take steps to build. to improve and to
strengthen.
Il would be delighted to have any
opinions made regarding holes that are
wrong so that we can improve at once"
says Mr.. Steiner. I'VE want to have
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open that as far as possible no crit
icism can be made. We can only have
it 50 by hearing from you and any
players OF note who would make sug-
gestions. These are very welcome"
Last fall when the =. G. A. Cham
pionship was held at Inwood the Of
ncials of the club opened their cam
paign looking toward the betterment OF
n course which for years has been highly
popular with the experts. Suggestions
made by Hagen. Barnes and Hutchison
already have led to new greens for the
ninth and thirteenth and the lengthen-
ing of the fourteenth by one hundred
feet making this one a better as we'll
as longer hole. The new ninth green
Is beautifully trapped and raised all
around and the tee also has been put
back some seventy-five or one hundred
feet
Objectionable Feature Removed.
AS for the thirteenth the objection
able feature heretofore has been the
roadway intersecting the course at about
the point where the experts finish their
drives. The green now has been drawn
hack short of the roadway and new
tee has been built at point behind the
old one which has enabled the old dis
tance of the hole to be retained.
These were the most obvious short
comlngs of the Inwood Country Club
save perhaps for here and there
parallel fairway. And on any course
aspiring to championship standards
parallel fairways are an adherence.
But as on many celebrated circuits ad-
jacent fairways remain Jnwood must
not be too severly condemned in this
rl.A 81. IT, n.IxI
lens in the right spirit and 1t behooves
all those who can in any way assist ID
add their suggestions to those made last
year by Walter, Jock and Jim. When
the next championship rolls up It will
be the players themselves who will
criticize and vituperate IL everything
is not exactly as they would like to
see It.
But let 1t not be thought that Inwood
is sitting back complacently admiring
itself for the carrying through Of the
above suggested alterations. A whole
budget OF work is now in progress. For
instance the second hole is having new
green built and also $50 feet added to
its length. This Is to be a big I'M
Another big Improvement
is to be seen at the third. where 100
feet is being added with the tee down
shot over hill.
The fourth hole is having new green
made and at the fifth, the short hole, the
tee is being extended rs feet Then,
again. the seventh hole is being i'm
the tenth. or pond green. made
larger, 80 feet added to the length OF
the eleventh and 100 feet to the ff-
teenth. Over all. these improvements
will add fully 400 yards more to the
length of 1nwood. In the words of Mr..
Steiner. the Inwood Country Club de-
sires to do everything In its power to
make it's course a real test of golf.
It might not be n bad plan for the
to arrange for tourna-
ment at Inwood on some early date. one
of these one day affairs which the p.
G. A. has begun to popularize. Then
give each contestant a piece of paper
and pencil and let him state thereon
whether he believes the course as II will
be when the scheme of improvements is
completed is a thorough championship
test or what in his opinion it lacks to
make II such.