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it of3 ill-hadserin toider-andStur-t for •teen beensur-iren.Eliz-: thePeo-ioon, had eks. wau-was 9 to dren t ofandalsotwollsonGOLF EXPERT IN TOWNPru- Tom Bendelow of Chicago Lays Out city, Nine-Hole Course At Horse iday Shoe Bay.,Tom Bendelow, golf expert and enthusiast and, golf course architect,rjn yo 9was in the city during the week, having been at Horse Shoe Bay laying out a course for the Horse Shoe Bay ft e Country Club.Mr. Bendelow is the recognized mn golf authority in the United States and edited Spaulding’s Golf Guide for years. He came here from Alexandria, Minn., where he laid out an 18-'o inhole course 130 miles from ”no-^ay where,” as he expressed it, and left here on Tuesday for Oakland, Fla.,to put in a course for a country club there. He has made golf his business in this country for twenty-threeryears. The Horse Shoe Bay course Is the G50th one he has laid out in that time and the principal courses in the country are of his architecture. George Ade calls Mr. Bende-city’ low “the Beatrice Fairfax of golf,” the inference undoubtedly being the “love” ,of the game.A 9-liole course is to be put in at Horse Shoe Bay? will be between 3,200 and 3,300 yards long and locat-ed on 100 acres of land south of the United Fruit Growers’ dock. Later the course will be enlarged to eighteen holes. It will be a year before the course can be used. Mr. Bendelow' issued his instructions in regard to the clearing of the land, whichmust be done “just so.” In August he will return and oversee the clear- ,*ning out of every stump and root, the smoothing of the grounds by plowing and dragging and rolling, and the 'ag0' seeding. He states that the putting pre“. greens will be smoother and softerthan any lawn in the state. He termsnoer Horse Shoe Bay “a beautiful project”and stated that if he could induce his family to come here he would become one of the summer , residents Fatta of this county.?.rt®r Incidentally Mr. Bendelow is an old new’spaper man, having been thruiitsieopertghes the game from the job of “devil” to artin the editor’s chair. He is a native of orris Scotland and in IS89 operated the first-Mergenthaler linotype introduced into, that country, being at the time on the Scottish Leader in Edinburgh.^ryceldseyregorrisontimer
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Sturgeon Bay Door County Democrat
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, US
Fri, May 12, 1916
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