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ofru-ty,[ayIliadlyaer-lay‘hetonger-ndinlayutur-for?enenuren.Liz-ty,theeo-on,iadks.1U-?as to 'en of |hi-indIsowogo,re-onoerLttatertsieperhes•tinrrisycetI5eygorsonnerGOLF EXPERT IN TOWNTom Bendelow of Chicago Lays Out Nine-Hole Course At Horse9Shoe Bay*Tom Bendelow, golf expert and enthusiast and,, golf course architect, was in the city during the week, having been at Horse Shoe Bay laying out a course for the Horse Shoe Bay Country Club.Mr. Bendelow is the recognized 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-liole course 130 miles from “nowhere,” 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-threetyears. The Horse Shoe Bay course Is the 650th one he has laid out in that time and the principal courses in the country are of his architecture. George Ade calls Mr. Bendelow “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 he a year before the course can be used. Mr. Bendelow issued his instructions in regard to the clearing of the land, which must be done “just so.” In August he will return and oversee the clear- j ing out of every stump and root, the smoothing of the grounds by plowing and dragging and rolling, and the seeding. He states that the putting greens will be smoother and softer than any lawn in the state. He terms 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 * residentsof this county.Incidentally Mr. Bendelow is an old newspaper man, having been thru the game from the job of “devil” to the editor's chair. He is a native of Scotland and in IS89 operated the first-Mergen thaler linotype introduced into, that country, being at the time on the Scottish Leader in Edinburgh.
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Sturgeon Bay Door County Democrat
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, US
Fri, May 12, 1916
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