Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, September 7, 1961, page 43 (of 47)
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Par-Three Golf Course
stay...and more people play the short courses every year BY LOUISE SUGGS Today many beginners edge into the game the par-three way, where before they might have quailed at the expense and all the paraphernalia that are required for sampling regular golf. Setups, of course, vary throughout the country. Many of the most beautiful par-threes, as in Florida and Texas, are run as adjuncts to hotels. California, which tops all other States with a total of 76 par-threes, leans to swimming pools and restaurants as extras. Some establishments night-light their courses for more hours of play, some provide children's play areas—supervised. Whether all this is really "golf" is no longer a serious question. Bobby Jones boosted par-three into permanent standing by staging a warm-up round on his new nine hole "Little Masters" before the start of the 1960 Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Country Club in Georgia. The event, won by Sam Snead with a 23, not only delighted the spectators but dramatized the possibilities of par-three golf as a supplement to regular golf. At the new Merrywood Country Club in Smithtown, Long Island, Club officers and the Club professional are happily forecasting the benefits to come from the 18-hole short course they are building. It will provide a quick and stimulating substitute for many players, who for some reason are unable to go a regulation course round— the five-thirty player, for instance, or the lady whose time is limited, or the older player. Beginners, they say, will start with more assurance there; it will drain traffic from the large course. The short course will tend to equalize the game between men and women (with the premium on accuracy), and it may give rise to a new kind of tournament featuring men, women, and teen-agers as the contestants. Golf planners tell us that, with our present golf boom and rising population figures, by the year 2000 there will be a demand for ten times the golf facilities we have today. This is a strenuous outlook, and the par-threes figure prominently in some strenuous advance planning, which has to take into account the realities of the population explosion, overcrowding, the dwindling of available land, and rising costs. On economic grounds alone, the par-threes are bound to prosper. Besides, they're lots of fun. Golf, everybody? Twice Women's National Champion, Miss Suggs this year won the Par-Three tournament held at Palm Beach.
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