The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-29
GOLF COURSES
AWAIT Spring
DUFFER RUSH
Park Board Makes Great
Improvements on All
Public Links.
CHANGE SOUTH GROVE
Director Orders Alterations
That Will Assure
Faster Play.
BY DICK MILLER

] WdIlu WILL
showers, may be sure sign of
spring to come, bus to A. c. Sallee,
superintendent of public parks. and
Arthur G. Lockwood, municipal golf
/ director, it is a warning to bear
down and get city golf courses in
shape for the march of the buffers.
Although a recent cold snap
chilled the playing ambitions of
many who had found agreeable golf
weather on tap most of the winter,
the arrival of April is a signal. re-
CARELESS of weather, that golf time
is here.
The park department has not
been caught mapping and performed
two civic duties during the winter.
Men out of work we're given jobs,
on made work program, otherwise
this labor on golf courses would
have been financially impossible for
the park board.
Two Courses Kept Open
South Grove and Pleasant Run
courses have been kept open for
play all winter, of course, on tenn
porary green's and tees and this
enable much work to be done the
regular course.
A beautiful new green will eaten
the lofts over the lagoon known as
hole 8 at South Grove. Likewise a
new putting surface has been con-
Structed on hole 6, and will be in
shape for early use in spite of van
dallsm during the winter.
The dog leg on No. 4 has been
changed to afford more fairway
space and new grass tees have been
constructed on holes 9 and II.
With view to speeding up play
and getting players on the course
faster from the first tee, Lockwood
is contemplating new rotation of
play. No. l still must be used. be-
cause of the ticket booth and other
permanent features and this will
continue to be a bugaboo to the
starting players if they be of the
long driving variety. They must
wait until the players ahead have
left the first green.
NHduSeu on NO. Z
Instead of the same condition
bobbing up on the next hole, how
ever, even shorter in yardage
length, Lockwood plans to shift the
players over to old No. Is with long
yardage for No. and then take the
course in the following manner. l.
IL, e, Z, 8, 9, 10, 4, 5, the holes being
listed as they were known in 1881.
The second nine would be 3, IL. u.
Is, IA IS, 16, II and 2, which. to
one familiar with the course, shows
that the new arrangement brings
the players back to the clubhouse at
end Of nine holes.
Not much improvement has been
made on the east side of the course
principally because of the car tracks.
but If hopes run true and these are
removed in the near futures, Lock-
wood plans on new green on hole
No. l and new arrangement and
green for No. 18.
Riverside Is Improved
Riverside has been transformed
greatly and players who have NOT
been near there all winter will be
surprised agreeably. A new tool
house, completely surrounded by
evergreenS, makes a great improve
ment. A new water line has been
plped in from Thirtieth street,
slx-1nch main to the clubhouse and
then slit to give more pressure to
the water supply system on the
south end of the course.
New grass tees have been con-
structed on holes l, 2, 3, 3, 9, 10, IA
and IL and new tile drain will take
care of the drainage from the hill
that long has ruined the first
green every year.
A big bunker will catch pulled
shots from the seventeenth tee that
frequently endangered persons wait
ing at the first tee Many of the
chocolate drop bunkers have been
removed and total of 240 trees
have been set out around the edge
of the entire course, giving a dis
tinctive border.
Cut Down Pleasant Run Hill
Pleasant Run has come in for its
share Of improvements and much
work on the creek banks has taken
place. The big hill on No. Il has
been cut down and the creek course
changed on No. 3, lessen the lost
ball problem.
The Sarah Shank course likewise
came in for much work on the creek
banks, much Of it cleaning out I'M
derbrush and filing in the low
ground on fairwayS of Nos. 8 and g.
The green's have been enlarged at
Douglas park, Negro course, and
water piped to the golf course
greens and tennis courts. Bunk
ers have been constructed and the
course made much more sporty.
It had been hoped the new Coffin
course would be in playing shape
by June l since the fall and win
ter weather worked in favor of the
new grass on the fairways and
greens.
lockwood says, however, that six
bridges must be constructed, some
Of them difficult ones, and he will
be happy If the course can be
thrown open as Fourth of July
feature.