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Show Page Fmiv-si- x Campus links said it was tlw mmi unfaii tiHJisc he'd ever plavedand he'd neiei tome hat k. I Ir didn't either." said Maguiie. wasn't the onlv champion who the old f ort. "Chitks Von Fhn at played learned to play here and he beat Bobby Jontwo or three times." Maguiie said. "At ne time Bvron Nelson had a string tf II vii.wrs. aid when he tame heie he touldn't figure out how to pun either, and his traveling tomjjanion. Jud MtSpaddin. finally ended his string." added Maguiie. Men weren't the onlv plavers to find ihe going tough on the Fort Douglas course. Babe Didritkson Zahaiias plaved here, as I logan - redesigned MARTI Chronicle Staff Average golfers beware, no longei will you be able to shoot strait h golf on ihe by MARK l'niMsiiy Not ih.it n golf t nurse. will he another Pebble Beat h. but it will I' aitoidaiue with other touists ti?'f .he atound valley. Redesign of the golf course int hides two and new holes number five, a new The hole. two number six. a holes will teplate the old number eight which was shortened for a ixirking lot. Pai will probably lemain the same, 32 01 3 J. but with these two longer holes it should fx-- a little mote diffit till to male jut. Die main leasoti for the change is to nuke the touise more tomjxiitive. thus hawing moie golfers and mote money 'Piohahlv the number one leavm foi the .lunges is to make the touise a little mote (omxtiiive with tht test of the t muses in the t it ." viid Arden l.irsen. an an hurt l in the tatiliiies Planning DeiMitment o( the I uivtiMiv. On the other hand, ue don't want to make it so tomjx iitive that the average golfer is distoutaged ftom 333-yaide- r; 250-var- d -- plaing it." Vinnie Maguiie. touise piofessional. agirrs. "Making it longei will noi netesviiilv nuke it hauler. It's ptrtiv tough now fn as shod as it is.tonsideiing the lav ol the gut ris and the plat emeni of the naps Making it longei will just make it a litth h.udcr " At one lime the ionise was onl llui holes long and the golfer weniaiound i h i limes Al that lime, the outse was mii ol Foil Douglas. I.iki. lite touise was fMtided lo M holes, which had the distini lion of being lated in (he top ten in the tountiv as fat as dilfitultv. Maguiie. who was a iiidiilxi in ihose das, tetncnilxis how it was. "Out touiv was on the western piolcssioual lout al that time adn all the gnats in golf played lute." Maguiie viid. "lit n I logan t ame hele lot a tournament and was playing tetrible. It seems he i ouldn'l I'.uuie out how loputt on these nuk gieens Altel the round Hog.ni well as Pattv Beig. But then dt I .ake Citv was a glowing t ommumtv and the fat t that it was growing necessitated ilu tonstiut lion of moit buildings on iheiampus. The I'nivrisitv Medital Centti ttiok piaditaliv nine holes of the outse and ihe rest of the buildings shortened the nine that were left. "In eais ast. we've leal l Unn hipping a was at il." said !iisen. Now with the addition of e Mia vaidage. old lime goifeis dieam of anothei nine holes lo make the i out sea itgulatioii IS. "'At one time their was a piojJos.il to build an touise extending thiough Foil Douglas into Reseaith P.uk. but Ixt ause of high land t osts the piojxivtl was shelved lot the lime Ixing." I.tlscn viid. Maguiie vivs that theie wen two pioMivds. the one that was shelved and an eailiet one. "I was a nit ml I ol the old 18 hole touise and we almost tit t ided to laki an option f torn the government on the laud a!ove wheie ihe mttlu.d tentti sits.' Maguiie viid. "We weie going lo lake a lease ami build anoilit i M holt s but we It we hail dug and planted tin staietl. goi watt i piies and put in the ionise linn we wti aliaid tlx- govi limit m would tome in and lell us to leave." Maguiie added. "So the ilub bought the land in Dtax-i- I t. ih and thai laud is now the lluUt n Vallev (iotintiv (Jub." 18-hol- e toiisitiM lion pioposalstall lo a nai lowing of numljer oik- - fairway in ool i to piovkle spate for ten new tennis touiis. (Histnu tion has legun with the loughtMt the north side tf tlie hole Uing replattxl ith sod that is U ing temoved from wheie w ihe tennis touits will Ik built. "Hie pitblem here is that not all golfers hit the hall straight and the touiis tould be in the way." Jatobsen said. Two remedies tan lie olftied to tine this situaiitMi. (I) A high piotettive fente surrounding the tennis touits tan In erected and (2) hole numbei one can be shortened 40 yards, whith will all but eliminate the possibility of hitting tennis plavers. Maguire likes the setond alternative. "What we might do is make the fust hole a ur ihitf. extept for us old eople ii will lx a five." t honied Maguiie. " I hal wav we'll give pioiettion to the tennis plavers in the new coutls and ihe hole will !e alxMil the same dilfwuliv." Maguiie added. Along vith the leaitangt nit in of hole one. the two new holes ittjuiie two new gums. Oiiginal design of ihe gut lis nude ihem to small hi the aveiage plavet and they had lo lx nlaiged. Coiisii ut lion of ihe gietns was h.unlit tl bv ihe 1'iiivtisiiv giouuds tit iai(ineut. wlmli (his veal had the entile ouise plat ed in list aie. Biinud gitt lis wt it a bugaboo lo the Hit Dailv l tah CJnonitle. Ojjenings 1V77 this year and the greens are giouiklvktt-is just stalling to tome around. "Fertiliti was mi I on ihe greens last fall in the hojx--s thai lite snow would melt and the water and fertilizer would seep dow n." Jacobsen said. "As it turned tnit there was ery little snow and the fertilizer just sat there and burned the grass. " Jatobsen added. Supeiintendanl of Grounds Merle Rush ton and his t rew have had their hands full bringing the course back into shajx-- . "Water is the main remedy," Rushton said. "Tw o thirds of any golf course is getting it watered. We have vime new sprinklers because the old sprinklers were wasting water instead of putting it on the greens. We also have some gtxxi water Rushton added. In shot i, the redesign of the golf course will increase the total yatdage from its piesent 2.263 yards to 2M0 vards. The two new holes should be ready for play in late September, according to Rushton and Maguiie. Plans for next season call for a new rate schedule. "We're going to offer a season rate, a t heatx-- r rate on weekdays than weekends, a senior citizens' rate and a said Jatobsen. theajx-- fee for "Some tonsider the touise a while i It pliant, but I think il can at least break now ihal il will be more comix-timthan Ixfoie," Jatobsen added. r off-hours- ," jx-opl- e - . v But tlx ptoos.ils ate all in llit past now . What isn't in the just is a pioxtvd to bin M a diiving i.inge uotth ol h tit i.il Wav led Jaiohseu. business manage! oi the i outse. would like lo see a range that will att omodate Ixrth itotisatid vmmmIs. "I think a diiving lauge would make monrv." jatohst n said. " I li it isn a vmmmI diiving tange on tht east suit . State Stnri. () touise some plot'itum f t the liv I ng on oi ih ( .in i pus )i would have ' ' ' ' ' ! think it's a It. p: XtNll)llll adilttl .lol)S . UJ: ' I it ! V In Si.Ji v . , 'A .!! S, (Ulltlll SO MAYBE YOU 'VE THOUG HT ABOUT RADIO BROADCASTIN and maybe even tried to get on at one of the local stations. 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