SHORT-HOLE GOLF
A GERMAN PRISON CAMP COURSE. (By E. Endersby Howard, in the "Daily Mail.") The idea of short-hole golf as a means of bringing'almost to the doors of the multitude a pastime at once healthy and absorbing is attracting attention among all classes of players. One of those greatly interested in the scheme is Captain Cecil K. Hutchison, of tho Coldstream Guards, the Scottish internationalist and a leading momhar of the Royal and Ancient and other olubs. He thinks that as a means of providing recreation for those who cannot got the real thing short-hole, courses would be excellent and valuable adjuncts to the Y.M.C.A. huts.
Captain Hutchison was captured by the Germans when leading his company early in tho war, and he describes a miniature course which he and his fellownrisoners made at Chiusthal, in Germany. Tho ground at their disposal measured about 60 yards by 50 yards, and on this six holes were constructed—very ingeniously constructed, too, judging by a sketch which I have seen.
The surface of the putting greenß consisted of a mixture of tho natural soil and finely crushed granite, obtained from somo neighbouring mills. When wet this mixture was plastic, which enabled the greens to bo given any character in the matter of undulations that the designers desired. The crushed granite, which wns of the same oonsistoncy as coarso 6and, proved vory useful, as it was a good substitute for sand in tho bunkers and the tee boxes.
Tho putting surfaces were wonderfully true, and when they became too slippery a' little of the crushed granite splinkled on them slowed down the pace without interfering with the trueness of the surface. This material was bought fairly cheaply, and the only other for construction and upkeep consisted nf a few spades, a sumper, a small roller, and a watering not. ".It seems to me," says Captain Hutchison, "that such a course might ho laid out at very small cost on any piece of waste ground, and atford amusement to a considerable number of people. We certainly got a cood donil of fun out of our course at Clausthal."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 4
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354SHORT-HOLE GOLF Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 4
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