Evening journal., 1922-11-22
IMPROVEMENTS
ON CITY LINKS
New Greens, More Hazards
and Roughs Planned for
Course
HOPE TO GET ENOUGH
INCOME TO DO WORK

Plans for the improvement OF the
municipal golf links in order to
make them a better playing course
for the hundreds OF persons who use
them, have been drawn up and II is
expected that they will be put
through this coming winter, II the
campaign for 500 annual members
now under way is successful. Among
the improvements contemplated are
the construction OF FIVE more greens
and the installation Of more artificial
hazards. improvements will be made
in other ways also to the course.
Louis B. Harris, chairman OF the
grounds committee OF the Municipal
Golf Association, stated this morn
ing that it is ti6ped the Income will
exceed the budget expenses next year
so that the improvements can be
made. I'VE should like to add the
following features to the course. &"
said Mr.. Harris.
First ho,e-Move the tee hack
about l25 yards driving through
opening between reservoir and Office
building with bunkers placed on left
OF fairway to penaIize a hooked ball.
Second hole can be lsngthened
TO any distance up to $50 wards
Third hole the tee will be moved
back over the road with a bunker
placed on left Of fairway to proper-
~ protect players on fifteen green.
Fourth hole tees will be moved
back to road and small bunkers NAV
be built TO right and left Of green
about twenty yards in front. Fifth
hole TO remain the same. Sixth hole
at present. The most difficult par on
the course. can he made more in
terestingly by placing a deep pit be-
yond the willow tree TO catch a
sliced BAH together with two bound
er pits on left of fairway and trap
on the left.
"The Municipal Course at present
has thirteen constructed greens with
five more TO be built from expected
funds. At present the course has
three double trap bunkers. one sin
gle trap bunker and twenty traps.
From time TO time next year and In
future years more artificial hazards
will be constructed.
New greens will be constructed .
this winter; on the first hole to be
right of the present location trapped, 1
right, left. back and part Of the front,
together with a trap about thirty
yards in front of the green 10 catch
a topped shot. The third hole a rails
ed green trapped right and left. The
tenth hole a surface green in back OF
present site trapped on the right and
a bunker trap in fronc of the left /
side. The fifteenth will be built on
present site will trap on the left of 1
green. The seventh hole. pits placed /
right and left in front OF green and /
traps right, left and back. The ,
eighth hole to be bunkered on left of /
fairway and bunkered right and left /
in front of green. The ninth hole
to be bunkered on right of fairway
and trap placed on right OF green.
The tenth to be the same. The
eleventh 20 have an inverse bunker
dividing tenth and eleventh fairways
below present bunker. The twelfth
hole will be trapped left and traps
cut in face OF filter bank. The thir-
teenth bunkers along right side OF
and bunker traps on right
side OF fairway beyond thirteenth
green. The fifteenth hole will have
large division bunker on right TO
keep the fifteenth and sixteenth fair
ways separate. Short of green on
he left side OF fairway a bunker
and trap to separate play from third
'airway. The sixteenth a bunker on
eft OF fairway. Seventeenth can be
made a fairly different hole by trap
ping all around, and making the
yreen smaller. The eighteenth fair
way can be bunkered on the left and
raps and pits be placed in face Of
,ank about tho green"