The Coral Gables Times

FOR THE HAPPIEST HOLIDAYS OF YOUR LIFE THREE MATSON SOUTH SEAS HOLIDAY CRUISES

Enjoy all the pleasure of the holiday season at a leisurely sea-roving pace... sail into summer as you visit Tahiti, Rarotonga, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Pago Pago and Hawaii... play, relax and be pampered during six weeks of unparalleled Matson liner luxury. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING CRUISE • ART CRUISE • ss MONTEREY sailing November 3. Shop for rare bargains in the Ports of Paradise — the exotic and unusual in Christmas gifts... celebrate a happy Thanksgiving at sea... return ten days before Christmas. Receive complimentary art instruction from VINCENZO, well-known artist and teacher. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S CRUISES • ss MARIPOSA sailing November 24, ss MONTEREY sailing December 18. On both cruises you'll celebrate the Yuletide and New Year's holidays on the sparkling Pacific. There'll be traditional feasts, Tom-and-Jerrys and a magnificent tree... Santa Claus with gifts for the children... Christmas carols and religious services. You'll enjoy a gala New Year welcomed with a mighty roar of the ship's whistle. Matson Lines A TRADITION OF LUXURY Each sailing from San Francisco, next day from Los Angeles. See your travel agent, or write: Matson Lines, 215 Market Street, San Francisco 5, California

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TODAY THERE ARE four times as many short courses round the country as we had in 1955, and Gene Sarazen is predicting that in fifteen years they'll outnumber the long. If they had been promoted twenty-five years ago in his heyday, he says, par-three golf would now be the nation's number-one sport. With the term "par-three," which came into use about ten years ago, short course golf took on its fully developed character: nine or eighteen complete holes, each of them short enough for a possible score of three (on or near the green in one, down in two more). Except in scale, the short courses are similar to the layouts of their conventional relatives in all details of tees, greens, fairways, and hazards—including, sometimes, such trimmings as a clubhouse and elaborate service facilities. As of now, over-all lengths vary widely from course to course, but a growing number of purists insist that the real par-three will call for the use of every club in the bag and will run to enough length to accommodate some long wood shots. In any case, from under 600 to over 2700 yards is the present eighteen-hole length range, with individual hole length limited only by the USGA rule which sets 250 yards as the maximum yardage allowed. In practice, it may all work in much the same way as it does at the Oak Lawn Golf Center outside Chicago. THIS PAR-THREE COURSE, like many of the other 374 spread across the country, functions as part of a community center, which has added to its attractions by including the course. It spreads altogether over seventeen acres, with nine holes as follows: 1. 110 yards | 4. 205 yards | 7. 170 yards 2. 185 yards | 5. 125 yards | 8. 230 yards 3. 140 yards | 6. 150 yards | 9. 160 yards The Oak Lawn player can not only get a challenging round on such a course for the moderate fee of, say, 75 cents, but for a little extra outlay he can also sharpen up on the driving range or practice green, while a nongolfing companion, in the meantime, can find diversion on the Tom Thumb course unless he wants to rent some sticks and balls and give the real game a try.

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