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SHOREACRES GOLF CLUB WORK PUT OVER UNTIL SPRINGNew Links at Lake Bluff Will Be Ready for Plav bySummer of 1921.IS ON THE LAKE SHOREWork on the development of the new Shoreacres Golf club, now being laid out at Lake Bluff, will be suspended until the growing season next I spring, according 10 word from Stan Iley Field, president of tht club. A I crop of rye will be planted to oxy-I genize the soil and in the seeding reason, in September, the first preparation for the -permanent turf course I wiij be made.I Although the holes have been laid I out. the course will not be entirely I ready until the summer of 1921, according to present indications. Getting proper turf established is one of the big jobs of Seth Raynor, architect of the course. The 140-acre strip is full of natural hazards, ra-I vines cutting it in such a way that I many of the ohles will be difficult . I to play. However, the purpose of I those in charge is to make the course ! I possible for the average player rather , lthan the champion, to make it pos-, I sible for women players, and this j I 'wortt will require /considerable I smoothing out in places.Six acres of the tract front ‘ on •lLakt Michigan and in this strip will■ I be the clubhouse, tennis courts andstarting tee. Only the locker room 1 of the clubhouse will be ready next■ I summer, according to David Adler, - I architect.
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Libertyville Independent
Libertyville, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 11, 1919
Page 4
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Bret L.
CT, USA 07 Nov 2019
Other Publications Near Libertyville, Illinois
Libertyville Lake County Independent and Waukegan Weekly Sun
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