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ANDEBSON IS CONSTRUCTING UNIQUE GOLF COURSE HERE; OF RARE SCENIC ATTRACTIONCarl H. Anderson, well-known golf architect, is making rapid progress cn the building of an unusually interesting golf course here in Venice. In keeping with the general plan to build a well-balanced city and community at Venice this golf course, through a bit of architectural originality, will on several holes be both a difficult course for the expert and an easy one for the amateur.As one prospective player said: “There’s a hard route for the highbrows with the low scores and an easy route for the low-brows with the high score.”One admirable characteristic of the Venice Golf Course will be its accessibility, with the clubhouse only one-half mile from the center of the city. This contrast to the usual far-outlying club is possible through the city planning of John Nolen, which takes all recreation and civic spaces into consideration in the beginning.The great natural beauty of Venice was counted on in the selection of the golf course site, as for instance at the first, ninth and eighteenth holes beautiful oak trees divide the play. A natural tropical jungle frames the background for the fourth and fourteenth greens. And the lover of nature is delighted at the winding jungle path from the thirteenth green to the next tee.The third hole is right at home at Venice. It is called the “Beach.” The fairway is a rolling beach of pure sand from tee to green with warram or sea grass waving here and there. This is a one-shotter—137 yards.The fourth hole is of 317 yards. The green is so bunkered that a well-placed drive will have a pitch and a run shot or a pure run up left with the cant of the fairway helping the proper shot to turn toward the hole.The fifth hole is typical of the planning of all classes of players. The fairway runs from the tee around a marsh to the left and although the long wayhome is plain sailing for the ordinary player, the bold golfer has before him vistas numbered one, two and three, exit through the palm trees that fringe the marsh. A plate at the tee will indicate the distance through each vista. Number one will require a carry of 150 yards, number two, 170 yards, while number three will necessitate a carry of 190 yards.Two greens in one with a dividing ridge, is a little of a new idea brought into the game at the eighth hole.The ninth of 447 yards brings the player to the club. In the other nine one finds an entirely different series of holes, both as to length and playing character.In playing the Venice course, one will find undulating fairways and mound work of a varied nature. Natural hazards have been used to the fullest extent and where the average golfer will return happy in showing a card of 88, the first-class amateur or professinonal will find old man par as hard to beat as any course he knows.Mr. Anderson brings a wide experience to the golf work at Venice. He is an outstanding architect, having directed the R. O. Sinclairs’ work of building the Wampanang Club, Hartford. He is revamping the old Jungle Club course at St. Petersburg and building a new Jungle course there. He is an expert on seeds, having started under Willie Park, when Park was head architect for Carter’s Tested Seeds, Raynes Park, England. He expects to turn this seed knowledge toward building better greens in Florida.As a player, Mr. Anderson won the Schoolboy championship in Boston in 1909, defeating Frances Quimet. A few years ago he was 11th in the National Open. He is assisted here by W. F. Bradley, of Providence. The work is executed by the George A. Fuller Company, with Kenneth Smith, a noted Princeton golfer, as superintendent.
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This Week In Venice
Venice, Florida, US
Sat, Jun 05, 1926
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