Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-31
Golf is One Of Biggest
Attractions at Resort
FISHING SEEMS SLIPPING AS
AMUSEMENT FOR CUTTERS,
EVEN IN NORTH WOODS
BY Rambler

BY Rambler
In golf to replace fishing as the fore
most Wisconsin summer resort diver
sion3
The question startles the ear. First
reaction is a strong negative. But
let's ponder bit
We found unmistakable signs of the
growing ascendency of golf on late
summer jaunt of $500 miles around
the resorts of northern Wisconsin. OF
course, golf has for years been con.
sidered a necessary equipment of the
larger summer resort hotels of south
ern Wisconsin-Lakes Geneva, Della.
van, Lauderdale and the. lakes of Wau
kesha county. Golf has followed devel
opment northward at Elkhart, Fox
lake, Green lake, Devils lake and Xii
bourn. All the cities of the Fox river
valley have gone in for golf, and we
find it a prime attraction of Cherry.
land" much to the advantage of. the
resorts convenient to the links of the
Door County Country club.
In some of these places, notably
where the lakes are small and have
been "fished to death" for generations
we realized that game fishing had MOI
been able to hold it's own, and yet no
one is able to assert that fishing is
done" in Lake Geneva Green lake,
Pewauke, Beaver or Fox lake, in the
bays OF Door county, or even in the
relatively tiny waters of Elkhart, Fox
or DEVILS lake. They still boast of
fishing near Kilbourn, particularly in
the widening of the Wisconsin river
called Lake Wisconsin But golf has
annually. received larger attention by
the tourists, and fishing has by no
means a monopoly.
But in northern Wisconsin, where
game fishing, including the taking of
the fighting tiger muskellunge, is still
great sport, golf has gained by leaps
and bounds. We found Angus McDon
aid and other resort men meeting in
Three Lakes to raise $4,000 to build
golf links. Golf addicts had been go
ing 10 miles to play at Eagle River,
and there was nothing much against
that, so far as the distance was con-
cerned, but the links were over-crowd,
ed.
We were skeptical about that Three
Lakes project, on account of the mon
ey needed and the probability of the
resort men getting into jam over a
location. We expected that each
would want the links near his own
resort. That's where we were fooled,
The land-on the Rogers place east
OF Three Lakes-has been acquired
and work is going forward so that
play will be started in 1926.
At Crandon the same demand for
golf was found. Land is already clear
ed and links staked out at Planets,
three miles east of Crandon. Walter
j. Bruss, secretary of the Land
o'Lakes association, is leading this en-
terprise. Up at Eagle River we found
that golf was the chief diversion of
the resort population. The Eagle Wat
ers course was so overcrowded that
club members could get chance to
play. And here we met something
that Jared our idea that folks went
north mostly to fish.
Before we had golf course we
had dozen fishing guides at the re-
sort, and we had to send to town for
more because the demand was SO
gleat. Now we have only half so many
guides and they are not employed half
the time. Guests are swinging from
fishing to golf" That was the state
ment at Everett's, Wisconsin's largest
resort
West of Eagle River new golf
course is organized. Another course
is projected in town. Up at Sayner
the Plum lake course is too small Up
at Trout lake, plan for 100000
golf property lis financed. Even up
Mercer, golf is being played or pro-
jected at old Keewatin and other re,
sorts. In the primitive woods and wa
ters of Winchester and Vinegar golf
is to be played in Milwaukee
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