THE TEE IN THE TREETOPS
Briarcliffe Manor Is one of the New York golf courses and here the architect of the course has shown no little ingenuity in overcoming the difficulty provided by the thick woods on the first hole. To lengthen the drive meant putting the tee back into the forest; but the powers that be decided that the ‘‘tail ancestral trees” should not he cut down; therefore, on the principle that when the alternative fails Mahomet must go to the mountain, a large platform, over one hundred feet high, was erected, so that the players could drive, without undue difficulty, across the tree-tops to the fairway. There is, as yet, no elevator to the tee, which is reached by some of the players by dint of much panting and perspiring. Fluffed drives are not in these circumstances uncommon, being, of course, a source of tremendous amusement to every one except the person most directly concerned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 6
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