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VOL. XII.
SPECIAL EARLY SEASON NUMBER, 1908-09.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
UNIQUE IN THIS COUNTRY
Plnehurst's New Golf Course a Modern
Coarse for Modern Ball.
Former World Champion Walter J".
Travis Sees in it Model for
Others to Copy.
tYSILY the most conspic
uous figure in the world
of golf today is Walter
J. Travis, his remarkable
career both in this coun
try and abroad, being
familiar to all ; remarkable mainly be
cause Mr. Travis has reduced golf to a
sricwe and has carried the game further
through thought, than any other player
in its history. As an exponent of its
scientific side lie stands absolutely alone,
and his unprecedented series of victories
have been due almost entirely to a com
plete mastery of the game in every mean
ing of the words. His equal has never
been produced, and doubtless, it never
will be, for golf has now "arrived."
In addition, Mr. Travis is a
sportsman and a gentleman, and has
guarded his amateur standing with es
pecial care, for his love of golf is "for
golf's sake'" ; his interest for general
good because he sees in the game a sport
without equal in supplying a need
brought about by the high pressure of
modern civilization ; a game to be played
one afternoon each week or every day in
the week; sport which has character
enough to outlive America's severest test
the "fad'' fever.
Mr. Travis spent several weeks at Pine
hurst last winter and during that time
was greatly pleased with the new eigh
teen hole course, which was then being
used in unperfected form, manifesting
the keenest interest in improvements pro
posed and which have been made during
the past summer, expressing the belief
that the completed result would be a
course absolutely unique in this country ;
a model from which other courses would
be constructed. As a result of this in
terest in the course as exemplefying
what the modern golf course should be,
he has consented to be interviewed and
his statement is printed below. Char
acteristic of the man it is, clean cut,
straight to the point, and spiced with
quaint mannerisms ; each adjective ex
pressive, each sentence carefully thought
out; his opinions based upon years of
scientific study of not only the game of
golf, but the leading golf courses, both
in this country and abroad.
Coming as it does, his statement will
be read with keen interest wherever
golf is known; a fitting recognition of
Pinehurst as the world's greatest ex
ponent of the possibilities of the game in
all its varied phases ; results achieved in
barely less than ten years when golf was
first brought into prominence here
through the inauguration of the annual
United North and South Championship
tournament.
MR. TRAVIS' STATEMENT.
"I know of no course, north or south,
which provides a more thorough test or
better golf, and none which gives such
diversity. You are exceptionally fortu
nate in length, there is no monotony
every hole is different not an unfair
hazard on the course, and, no hill climb
ing! A SPECIAL SHOT FOR EACH HOLE.
"Best of all, each hole has a special
shot of its own ; a perfect first making a
comparatively easy second, a poor first,
a hard second a distinct value being given
to a particular shot on each hole and,mark
my word, certain holes will be quoted from
one end of the country to the other; par
tially condemnatory at first, but in time,
to be held up as really first class in a
way unique in this country.
MODERN COURSE FOR THE MODERN BALL.
"You have got to place not bang
anywhere down the course ; and in this
particular, the course has no parallel in
this country, for, as a rule, we have had
to take courses as they were and adapt
them. Here you have profited by the
knowledge of past experience, laying
out a new course to meet present re
quirements brought about very largely
by the modern ball which has created
the modern game.
hazards make world-famous holes.
"Of the dozen famous holes of the
world, not one would be scarcely any
thing but an ordinary hole but for its
hazards, and this will be the case with
y0U these hazards make it absolutely
essential that, at least one particular
shot on each hole, be executed just
right. You will strive for days to
bring this about and when you do, by
Jove, it brings its own reward ! If the
particular shot is right, it is compara
tively plain sailing, but if otherwise,
trouble will undoubtedly ensue. The
long accurate player will, at all times, be
cared for, but there will be trouble for
the wild player, as there should, in all
fairness, be.
YOU HAVE GOT TO THINK.
"A woman can play the course with
out trouble, for there are no carries from
the tee, unless one elects to take them
to make the second shot easier ; but, by
the Lord Harry, when you get upon a
tee you have got to THINK how you
are going to play that particular hole,
for there is always the alternative ; a
hard shot followed by an easy, or an
easy followed by a hard. If you elect to
accept the risk involved and make the
hard shot the really difficult one the
second shot is comparatively simple ; but
if you are a little weak kneed and decide
to take the easier shot first, you will as
suredly, be "up against" something ex
tremely difficult on your second.
NATURAL HAZARDS ONLY.
"There is not a transverse bunker on
the course, and there are always, as
there should be, openings to the greens,
permitting a player to make a low shot,
with run, against the wind, if he elects
to do so, and not a high shot compulsory.
This the course provides for, as do few
courses in this country. Further, even
the artificial hazards will be to all intents
and purposes, natural ones, such hazards
as it has been necessary to construct
bearing no outward appearances of arti
ficiality. PINEHURST'S UNEQUALLED EQUIPMENT.
"The new course gives Pinehurst an
unequalled equipment, providing for the
varied needs of three distinct classes
of golfers a necessity where such a
large number of players assemble and
two eighteen and one nine hole course
are a happy combination, for there will
always be those who desire to play but
nine holes. If it becomes necessary to
extend the nine hole course to a third
eighteen hole course, by all means do it
in such a way that it will be both a nine
and an eighteen hole course."
MR. TRAVIS' O. K.
. Desirous of having the interview abso
lutely correct the editor submitted type
written ms. to Mr. Travis with this
result :
Approved :
(Signed
SUMMER ONE OF ACTIVITY
October 19, 1908,.
Hotel Opening: Dates.
The opening of The Carolina has been
fixed for Saturday, January ninth, and
the Berkshire and Harvard for January
fourteenth; The Holly Inn having been
open since Sunday, November fifteenth.
The hotels will again be under the gen
eral management of II. W. Priest, who
also assumes personal management of
The Carolina ; Manager A. I. Creamer
returning to The Inn, and Manager F. C.
Abbe to The Berkshire and Harvard.
New Era of Growth and Progress on
Broad, Comprehensive Lines.
Coif Coame Perfection, Utility Ilant
Development and Cottagre ISxten- ,
tlon are features.
CTI VITY throughout the
entire Village, in antici
pation of present season
needs made necessary
by rapid growth, began
previous to the depar
ture of late guests last May, and has con
tinued uninterruptedly throughout the
entire summer under the direction of Mr.
Leonard Tufts, owner of the Village,
whose personal general management has
been responsible for a new era of growth
and progress along broad and compre
hensive lines.
Mr. Tufts has a keen grasp of present
and future needs, and a practical knowl
edge of the plant in its entirety, which is
rapidly transforming the Village and
placing the proposition upon a firm foun
dation which assures a future of wonder
ful achievement. Briefly, he is making
Pinehurst a business proposition and as
such it is appealing with new meaning to
people of intelligence, for only upon
these lines can any resort, organization
or institution be sustained; the aim
always to perfect the Village as an ideal
resort for those who seek sport, recrea
tion and rest in the fresh air and sun
shine, surrounded by right conditions for
living in every sense of the words.
The work of the summer has been
along definite lines of extension, per
fection, improvement and beautiflcation,
with special attention to future as well
as present needs, and a vast amount has
been accomplished. Never in its history
has Pinehurst been so well prepared to
care for its friends.
GOLF COURSE PERFECTION.
Most important of all work, as it
should be, has been golf course perfec
tion and improvement. Since late April
big gangs of workmen have been busy
on all three courses and with results
most gratifying. This work is dealt
with fully in leading articles printed on
this and the following page, and repre
sents the expenditure of thousands of
dollars. In anticipation of coming de
mands plans have been made for the
clearing of land for a fourth course, an
other nine-hole course, to be laid out as a
(Concluded on page 18)