The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

willows not long ago. On your fingers
you can count the times this hazard
has been conquered. The shot then is
a spoon or long midiron to a high
place overlooking a clean sweep down
the fairway across the creek. For the
last time you dance across the bridge
Gone OF many and the approach is
backed by the timber In front of tho
house.
No. Css5 yards)-out from under
the trees again-just like the No. 1
drive only to the north. Clean ap-
proach with only an out OF bounds to
in 20 yards of this green the other
day. He is the coming champion OF
Kansas-watch hini
No. (35o yards)-A beautiful hole.
Giant overhanging trees to catch q
hook. A. roll to the right to steal the
distance of a slice. The drive must
be straight or the approach will have
to sneak in the side door of guarding
row of cottonwoods that leads the
player directly down a long sweeping
green-the green that fronts the Carey
home.
Accurate Shooting.
There you have it!
the trees-au call for accurate shoot
ing. Every shot in golf with the pos
sible exception of deep sand traps may
be found on Willowbrook. The water
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not hazards unless you make them so.
1t is a marvellous course and never
has its par been nipped. Two 35's
have been shot-one by the master,
Senator Carey, and the other by a pro-
fessional. The senator remains consis-
tently in the>late sos but he is a golfer
of precision and many years expert
ence.
a Community Course.
Senator Carey is SO enthusiastic over
the lay of the land in his Willow
brook district that he is planning a
new course directly south of his pres
ent development. It will be known as
island Park" and will be the first
community links in the west. On
rolling and well shaded and watered
eighty acres he will put out fifty
building sites. The purchasers will
have the ownership also of 5000
yard 9-hole golf course and a park.
Senator Carey has laid out the course,
he has planted trees and shrubbery
and in a short time everything will
be in readiness for the sale and for
play.
The Island Park course will be
slightly more rolling than Willow
brook and some exceptionally sporty
shots have been figured out by the
owner. Cow creek is a constant haz-
ard as in Willowbrook.
In other words, Senator Carey is so
impressed with the pleasure of being
able to walk out of his front door and
play golf that he is providing equal
privileges for fifty more families of
Hutchinson.
WilIowbrook Home.
Speaking of his front door-Wil1ow-
brook home is one of the most attrac-
tive in Kansas. Built in true colonial
style it is ideal for it's location and for
the entertaining that the senator does.
In the basement a large dressing room
with fireplace, showers and a billiard
room. On the first floor sun parlor,
a living room, dining room, kitchen
and sleeping porch. Also a shower.
On the second floor more sleeping
rooms and a shower. The home faces
the ninth green and within the patch
of woods around No. 9 is No, 1 and
No. tee and No. and No. green.
The landscape gardening, the setting,
the view, the drives-all create spot
that always will be a show place of
Kansas.
The entire layout is a home, a re-
creation, a constant pleasure to Emers
son Carey. To be with him in his
home or on the links and to hear him
discuss his trees. his orchard, his grass
and his golf course. one never would
realize that only a few miles away he
owns vast Industrial interests and is
one of the most wealthy and influen-
tial men in Kansas today. Emerson
Carey is a gentleman, a sportsman, a
friend and companions. His sons and
their families reflect the true spirit of
the father and grandfather at Willow
brook.
To the writer the character Of
Emerson Carey is best indicated in
his golf-as the character of all men is
revealed. Nothing like a golf match
to expose the true blood that flows
thru q. mans veins. And on the back
of the Willowbrook score card is a
sentence-a paragraph always re-
spected by guests of Emerson Carey
and Willowbrook. It reads:
No playing for money permitted. II
Is grand enough TO be able to play
golf without gambling.