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11 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. * ♦ ♦ 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 | ANNUAL MOUNTAIN EXCURSIONS! SOUTHERN RAILWAY PREMIER CARRIER OF THE SOUTH | SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912 Low Round-Trip Fares as Indicated in Following Table: Asheville, Bristol, Header- Hot Lake Tate FTO 111 I O N. C. Tenn. sonville, Springs, Toxaway, Springs, N. G. N. C. N. C. 1 en i. i ATLANTA, GA $6.0n56,50 $6,0056.0056.QQ<6.00 Bi AUSTELL. GA 6.00 .... i 6.Qtt 6.00 £OO ... FAYETTEVILLE, GA 7.20. .7.207 20 720 FLOVILLA, GA 7.008.007.507.507.507.50 I FT. VALLEY, GA 7.508.007.5077.07 567,50 GRIFFIN, GA 7.50. . . . 7.507.50 7.50... . JACKSON, GA 7,50 7.507.507 50 | .... McDonough, ga 7.40 ___ I 7.40 tao 7-o ; .... ROCKMART. GA 6.00 6.00 | 6.00 6.00 | 6.00 j 6.00 FINAL LlMlT—Tickets will be limited to return on any train and date up to midnight of September 1, 1912. THREE SPECIAL TRAINS FROM ATLANTA I MORNING. NOON. NIGHT. Lv. Atlanta 8:00 a. nt. Lv. Atlanta 11:15 a. m. Lv. Atlanta .... OiOtfopTTn Ar. Henderaonvllle 5:15 p. m. Ar Hendersonville .... 8:17 p. tn Ar. 11 end arson Ville 6:00 a. nt. Ar. Asheville 6:30 p. tn. Ar. Asheville 9:25 p. nt. Ar. Asheville . .... 7:10 a. tn. Ar. Brevard 7:41 p. m. Ar. Brevard \r Brevard 7:11 a. tn. Ar. Lake Toxaway 8:45 p. tn. Ar Lake Toxaway\r. Lake Toxaway 8:10 a. tn. Ar. Hot Springs 8:15 p. tn. Ar. Hot Springs\r. Hot Springs. 7:30 a. tn. Day trains will carry through parlor cars, coaches and dining cars. Night trains will carry Pullman sleeping cars and through coaches For further in‘o-mation and sleeping car reservation address James Freeman, Division Passenger Agent. City Ticket Office. No. 1 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. Phones, Main 142-143, Atlanta 142. H F. CARY, JNO. L. MEEK JAMES FREEMAN. General Passenger Agent, Asst. Gen, Passenger Agent. Division Passenge Agent. « g I «••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • Here's the Dope on • • Druid Hills Course • V • • 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. ♦ ♦ • '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. 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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 downward —to the worst shaking up of his career. The ball is not played straight off this cliff, but rather along the side of it. toward the north, so that the players do not have to go down the steep de,- cline, but rather along the face of it by easy stages to the valley be low. This hole is a drive-and-a pitch hole. But, like all of Barker's drive-and-pitch holes, there is a premium on a good drive. And that’s one beauty of the course. There are no holes that haven't a full golfing value —none merely fitted in to connect two others. Each one gives the duffer a chance to play the holes in a rea sonable number of strokes and without getting in.u any tremen dous trouble. Each one. on the other hand, is so measured off that the man who doesn’t miss a shot is never likely to be equalled by the man who always misses his drive and then tries to make it up with a tremendous second shot. * * * A NOVEL feature of the course will be th.e turf and sand greens. Bermuda grass, used for greens in the South, has but a short season and at best is decidedly stubby around the cup. Sand i greens, on tlie other hand, are un , interestingly level and are hard to pitch onto. To combine the good | features of the two sorts and to I eliminate the bad ones, tin Ormond golf course tried last year the 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 HOTELS AND RESORTS. Ocean View Hotel W. H, Adams, Owner and, Manager, Pablo Beach, Florida. Forty minutes from Jacksonville. 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