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Work Starts on the New Druid Hills Golf Course
When Finished It Will Be One of Country’s Best
By Percy 11. Whiting.
A BIG gang of laborers started
,X"\ work this morning on the
Druid Hills golf course
The contractors doing the work
have the call on two huge con
struction gangs. On twelve hours’
notice they can command the serv
ices of 100 mule teams or 500 men.
Yet, it will be at least November.
1913, before the new golf course
will be in playing condition.
When it is Atlanta will have the
greatest and best golf courses of
the South—-the East Lake layout,
now regarded a? the one champion
ship course of Dixie, and the new
course which its builders believe
will be immensely superior.
* * *
J_J H. BARKER, late of England,
• now the greatest expert on
golf course construction in all
America, had spent eight days
tramping around the property of
the Druid Hills Golf club and in
mapping out a course.
He turned in a map to George
W. Adair, acting president of the
yet unorganized club.
"Is that the very best you can do
—is that as nearly a perfect golf
course as you can get?” asked Mr.
Adair.
Barker, a man of few words and
big ideas, pondered a while. Final
ly he said: "Well, if I put in say
four more days and if you would
buy one plot of ground, about six
acres, that adjoins Druid Hills, I
could better the old plan a good
bit."
Now. Barker's services in map
ping out golf courses come to SIOO
a day, and land by the acre around
Druid Hills comes high. But there
was no time lost.
"Go to it,” said Mr. Adair.
Barker prowled around fbur more
days (at SIOO a day), six acres of
g:ound were bought, merely to fur
nish good distance on two holes,
and a course was planned out that
Barker believes will be without
equal in the South and with few
equals in America.
117 HEN a golf course at Druid
’’ Hills was announced golfers
in Atlanta pictured to themselves a
few tame holes skirting among
handsome residences, with garages,
pergolas, and puny traps for haz
ards and with as little variety as a
traip schedule.
if any one of them care to b<
waked up from this dream they
should make a trip out there and
look over the land.
Go to a point on Ponce DeLeon
avenue about 300 yards beyond the
Lullwater bridge. Turn to you:'left
and strike into the woods there, by
the little road you will find. Once
off the road, you are in a country 1
of such unexpected wildness and
brokehness of surface that it ail i
but takes your breath away.
Running through the Golf club
tract is a hit of a stream, known
as the Second Peavine creek. It is
a twenty-foot stream nowadays,
fed by springs. But in prehistoric
days it must have beep a lushing,
howling torrent. Bor the land be
tween Ponce DeLeon avenue and
tlie North Decatur road, which i.- j
the northern boundary of the
course, is seamed and gashed as
though a gigantic plow had been
drunk:uly guided th:ough the land.
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QN this vast 520-acre tract of
wild and picturesque land the
new golf course will be located.
The club house will be built just
off Ponce DeLeon avenue on a
wonderfully wooded knoll of
ground. By cutting away some of
the undergrowth vistas will open
in four directions, giving views of
the avenue and of the golf course.
Just beyond the club house will
be the first and the tenth tees and
the "ninth and eighteenth greens.
Prom this point, away toward the
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• Here's the Dope on •
• Druid Hills Course •
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• These will he the features of •
• the new Druid Hills golf course: •
• Four one-shot holes. •
• No parallel holes. •
• Each hole has a real golting •
• value. »
® Double, dirt tees. ®
• No public roads near grounds; •
• absolute seclusion.
• Turf and sand greens •
• No out of bounds. •
• No ground rules. •
• No long holes uphill. ®
• No banked greens. •
• Course laid out according to the •
• natural roll of the country and not •
• just arbitrarily up and down hills. •
• No blind holes.
® No "goat getting holes.” •
• Four three-shot holes. ®
• Rich, sandy soil. •
• Sixteen minutes by automobile •
® (moderate driving) from Five •
• Points, eight from the Georgian ®
® Terrace. Twenty minutes by street •
• car from Five Points. ®
• Length of the holes —No. 1, 430 •
• yards; No. 2. 350 yards; No. 3, •
• 335 yards; No. 4. 210 yards; No. •
• 5. 408 yards: No. 6, 350 yards*. •
• No. 7, 310; No. 8. 230; No. 9, 550; •
• No. 10, 400; No. 11. 475: No. 12. •
• 340: No. 13, 180; No. 14 368; No. •
o 15. 145; No. 16, 405; No. 17, 165; •
® No. 18, 440. •
• •
north and the east, the course
stretches.
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'T'O describe the proposed course,
hole by hole, would require un
limited space and a lot more study
than a man could do in one mere
morning spent in wandering ovet
tile tract.
The chief interest in the course
lies in tlie individuality of the
holes The most “unindividual"
course in the world used to be the
old one in Memphis. It was laid
out inside the Driving park race
track and each hole was like each
other hole, except in distance..
Exactly opposite will be the new
Druid Hills course. No two holes
resemble each other in the most
remote degree. And a few of them
are absolutely unique ami bear only
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a remote resemblance to any other
golf holes in the world.
* * *
'T'HE course, according to G. W.
Adstir. who unquestionably
knows ritore of golf course con
struction than any amateur player
of. Dixie, has? the five best consecu
tive golf holes in the world. And
while this may be putting it a trifle
strong, it is admitted that their
equal is not to be found in all
Dixie. Some of these holes go from
one side to the other of Second
Peavine valley. Others turn and
follow the course of the stream
through its little valley, over land
that is as flat as a billiard table;
but with trouble bristling on both
sides, where the land rises again to
the hills. ’
The seventh hole of the new
course is a marvel. The tee is no
place for a man who has been per
forming at the "nineteenth" hole.
It is located at the very edge of a
huge precipice, that drops off sheer
for 50 or 60 feet. A false move
there would send a man spinning
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And that’s one beauty of the
course. There are no holes that
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* * *
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will be th.e turf and sand
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greens in the South, has but a short
season and at best is decidedly
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i greens, on tlie other hand, are un
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pitch onto. To combine the good
| features of the two sorts and to
I eliminate the bad ones, tin Ormond
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scheme of putting the cup in the
center of a fifteen-foot sand circle
and of having the rest of the green
of Bermuda. This method proved
a grand success and will be utilized
at the new course. No greens will
be banked and none will be leveled
absolutely flat. The natural roll
will be preserved except in the cen
ter, where there will be a perfect
sand gregn, flawlessly smooth.
Grass tees will not be used, as it
has been demonstrated that the
ifiajorltv of players prefer a good
soft clay tee. There will be double
tees, giving longer and shorter dis
tances. and it is likely that some
professional tees will also be. added
to increase the length of the course
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