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EXPERT DESIGNS$3.5NEW GOLF LINKSTom Bendelow of Chicago, One of the Greatest Builders of the Country Has Charge of the Work.HIGH IN PRAISE OF SITECays Soil Is Especially Adapted to the Game and City Will Have One of Finest Courses In Middle West.SencC«I Itionwealandcessof 7wonownhelpmanpow«ly, sdete scrlj ordii who Tt slcla of n sure of d i; ro Ito slt; that andmavTom Bendelow, of Chicago. III., the juj' most prominent golf course builder belllt; in the country, designer of the Apa- ttve, wamis links over which the national ren amateur championship was recently | to™ played, and of the Myopia, regarded! as one of the greatest courses in the troI Vnited States, has been in Keokuk ( COp, during the past week laying out the 0rdi new links for the Keokuk Country prof club, which will he situated on Price’s, S3.0 Creek, overlooking the Mississippi rlv- entl er. When there Is any real golf work along this nature to be done in the country Tom Rendelow is the man D‘1 Usually chosen to do it; hence his, *)en' coming to Keokuk. 1 mnMr. Rendelow left Keokuk Saturday I woufeeling that he will be able to Rive jye®1 to Keokuk one of the finest natural . golf courses in the middle west out-; ‘e sile of Chicago, where there are sev ot,(the$4.0TakClayconmaimotcouernl large ones which rank with the; leading courses in the east. The land :Is eminently adapted for the purpose' with its roiling hills and splendid; soil, says Mr. Bendelow.Several days were spent hv Mr. j Bendelow in drawing up his plans forj construction and he will send a manj to Keokuk at once to start the preliminary work. The course will not be completed until some time next; vear and will not be occupied until ' 1913. * (Mr. Rendelow plans for a course j about r,.O00 yards long with a vari*. e of holes that will please even the most | **■sporty golfer. There will be several i*he: dog leg boles, a couple of blind greens Tiw and one or two that will give the cha rangy golfers an opportunity or! stretching his game. A detailed de-jWOT 6crlption of the course will be printed;®1^ In an early issue.Mr. Rendelow has laid out courses! in all parts of the country and In the seventeen years that he has been engaged In the work has designed nearly six hundred. Since August first he has been engaged almost constantly. I He says that country clubs and golfj courses are becoming more popular everv year and nov.- it is a slow city *darandereshewaihaiof lo.onn inhal Itanta that does not'nivhave a fine club bouse with a nine- Tn hole course, well kept up and generously patronized.Mr. Rendelow \p a Scotchman, who learned the game of golf when he was m. young. At the present time he plays jg infrequently, but still is able to un-1 qc cork a good game, as attested Friday. | jn when ho played the Keokuk course in fa 40. with Iron clubs only.
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Keokuk Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa, US
Sun, Oct 08, 1911
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