Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-01-06 | Page 18 | New Golf Course is 6,294 Yards Long

w NEW GOLF COURSE IS 6,294 YARDS LONG Facilities for the Pacific coast golfer golf-er grow apace According to a Portland Port-land newspaper, when the improve-ments improve-ments at the Portland Golf club and the Taulatin Country club are completed. com-pleted. Portland will be able to boast of three, and perhaps four, of the finest fin-est and most picturesque golf links in the west. At present the Waverly Country club is the only lS-hole course. Work on enlarging from nine holes to 18 already is under way, bothit ih. Taulatin and a1 the Portland club, and hopes for ihe new municipal course have by no means been abandoned. aban-doned. Plans are all drawn and actual work is being done at the Portland links Plans also have been prepared by the Taulatin officials and these are now being gone over by Chandler Fgan of Medford TWe new Taulatin course will be ap proximately 6294 yards long, or nearly near-ly 100 yards longer than Waverly. The first nine will be 3204 yards and will embrace only the first four holes of the present course. After fourth hole the course will swing off to the west into the woods and skirt the Taulatin Tau-latin river. The first nine will finish -with a short mashie pitch of 140 yards over a water hazzard onto a terraced green just to the northwest of ihe clubhouse. The second nine holes likewise will be carved out of the woods, but will swing into the present course at the fifth hole, finishing on the present ninth. Distanced furnished by John Junor, the Taulatin club professional, follow 1-260, 2-498, 3-3.r9, 4-357. 5-420 6-270, 7-520, 8-380, 9-140; total 3-340; 10 160, 1 I 896, 12 410, 13 400, 14-326, 16-487, 17-391, 17-391, 18-405; total 3091