The Pinehurst Outlook
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Some Familiar Faces at the
of the new clubhouse, from the outside of
the porte cochere at the front of the build
ing to the eastern wall of the workshop and
caddy house in the rear, is over 300 feet
or about the distance from Fifth Avenue to
Astor Court, in New York. And that the
maximum width, from the northern
windows of the grill room to the last of the
terraced porches on the southern side of the
clubhouse is over 200 feet, or about the
distance from Thirty-third to Thirty-fourth
Street. The dimensions named are, in other
words, those of the Waldorf-Astoria. The
Pinehurst clubhouse is not, however, of uni
form width and depth all over, thanks be.
On the right of the lounge is the Tin
Whistles Room a large, sunny semi-circular
affair commanding wide views, over
the links and sacred to the use of the famous
Tin Whistles golf organization, now enter
ing upon its nineteenth year ' of "joyous
existence and almost as old as the Pinehurst
Country Club itself.
The Tin Whistles, founded in 1904,
started with a membership of 37 and has
now a roll-call of about 300 members, rep
resenting practically all of the well known
golf clubs of the country. The policy of
the Club is opposed to large increases in
its membership and as nobody who has once
got in ever gets out again, voluntarily, there
exists at present an anxious and more or
less patient waiting list of over 125 appli
cants for admission.
If Pinehurst has attained pre-eminence as
the greatest golf center in the United States,
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Pittsburgh, Pa.
I. S. Robeson,
Rochester, N. Y.
the Tin Whistles have had more to do with
it than has any other single factor in its
phenomenal growth. Graceful recognition
of this fact was put on record by the Board
of Governors of the Pinehurst Country Club
many years ago, in the wording of a resolu
tion according to the Tin Whistles the right
of way on the Championship Course for a
period of two hours on the afternoon of the
21st day of February, each year this being
the date of the organization's Anniversary
Flag Contest. Upwards of seventy Tin
Whistles gathered here for that tournament
last year and all of them managed to get
started off for the first hole before the time
allowed them under their ancient and cher
ished privilege came to an end.
The Silver Foils, founded shortly after
the Tin Whistles, is another celebrated golf
organization that has its home in the Pine
hurst clubhouse. Many of the leading
women players of the country are members
of the Silver Foils and gather here in in
creasing numbers as the season proceeds.
Weekly tourneys are held throughout the
winter and the club's championship tourna
ment, held in March, is getting to be an
affair almost as important, so far as quality
of golf is concerned, as the Women's North
and South title event. Mrs. Dorothy Camp
bell Hurd and Mrs. Ronald H. Barlow, who
between them, have pretty well monopolized
the Silver Foils championship honors in
recent years, have been called upon to play
some of the hardest matches of their careers
in the club's annual title event.
The broad mezzanine gallery that runs
around three sides of the Lounge is surely
destined to become one of the most popular
spots in the whole clubhouse. Sitting up
there, in any portion of it, one overlooks
the lounge, the foyer, the dancing floor in the
grill room and wide sweeps of the links
stretching out from the foot of the terraces
below.
The entire southern side of the clubhouse
and part of the western side are skirted by
wide porches some roofed over and some
right out in the open separated and
bounded by red bricked terraces and steps,
and running, by easy gradations, down to
the edge of the greensward.
Aside from the distinctive features al
ready mentioned, the clubhouse contains, of
course, everything that a perfectly good
country club should have. There are com
modious rooms given over to the use of the
women members of the club. There are
kitchens and offices, private dining rooms,
a room for the Directors' meetings, and the
Secretary's own particular den and all that
sort of thing. A dozen rooms in the rear,
with a separate entrance, provide comfort
able quarters for the help.
There is one of the busiest workshops in
the country, back of the clubhouse a good
sized building in itself and designed in
architectural conformity with the main
structure.
There are plenty of baths and showers, of
course, and finally and emphatically, there
are Locker Rooms locker rooms galore
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