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Golf in St. Andrews

 

Beacon
Aug 9/1894
A golf "links" has been added to the out-door games in connection with the Algonquin hotel. Mr. Winch, who is the head and front of all the manly sports that originate in the hotel, is to the fore in this as well.

 

Beacon
Aug 16/1894
"Golf is being largely practised by the hotel visitors. So far, Mr. Winch stands at the head of the list."

 

Beacon
Aug 23/1894
The Game of Golf
The introduction of this Scottish game at the Algonquin this season has met with considerable enthusiasm and has provoked an endless amount of pleasure. Golf is peculiarly adapted to our climate, as it may go on until the wintry snow drives the enthusiastic player to his "ain fireside." Golf in interest to the player has a double advantage over other games and doubtless nothing less than an earthquake will distract the attention of a true golfer from his or her play. Catastrophes only seem of sufficient importance to provide fresh bunkers to test the skill of the players. Ladies in playing this game require a loose cape, usually made of reversible tweeds. A number of the fair sex have been to Magee's we should judge by the number of very handsome capes turned out from his establishment the past two weeks.

 

Beacon
Aug 30/1894
A Popular Sport
A game that is fast becoming popular here, and particularly among the summer visitors, is golf, or as it is called by some, "scientific shinny." The game had its origin in Scotland and is one of the most manly and fascinating sports associated with the Land o' Cakes. Its Scottish home is in the historic old town of St. Andrews, and so popular has it become there that people from all parts of the United Kingdom visit it in the summer season to witness the game being played. The result is a very large and constantly growing addition to the summer population of the place. The gentlemen who have been instrumental in starting the game here are of the opinion that similar results would follow from the laying out of a proper golf ground or links at this point. Perhaps it would. Certainly it would be worth trying. Golf, says an expert, is not as expensive as polo or bicycle riding. It costs about as much as lawn tennis. The main expense is in laying out the links. Land is usually cheap. Land that is undesirable for almost any other purpose is perfectly adapted to golf. If there is a stream or a deep depression in the land so much the better. Such things form hazards. The cost of providing sticks is not very great. . . .

 

Beacon
Sept 6/1894
Sir Leonard Tilley and Van Horne and Beacon added to Golf Club honorary membership.

 

Beacon
March 21/1895
"The St. Andrews Golf Club," of 40 members, has two sets of links.

 

Beacon
July 4/1895
Golf at SA
The ancient and honorable game of golf will be played in St. Andrews this season for all it is worth. Mr. Winch, the President of the Club, arrived from Boston on Monday, and since his coming has been busily engaged in laying off the links. He has laid off two setts, one at the hotel and the other at Joe’s Point. Both are good, but that at the Point is said to be very superior. In addition to golf, there will be tennis, croquet and kindred amusement, so that visitors to St. Andrews need not lack for healthy out-door entertainment.

 

Beacon
July 11/1895
The Golf links at Joe’s Point, which was laid off by Mr. Winch, president of the St. Andrews Golf club, is said to be one of the best natural links on the American continent. Every fine day it is patronized by half a score or more enthusiastic golfers.

 

Beacon
July 18/1895
Golf in progress every day on Joe’s Point Links.

 

Beacon
Aug 1/1895
The ambition of the small boy now a days is to be a golf “caddie.” The burden of their song is: “I want to be a caddy and with the caddies stand, a golf stick ‘tween my fingers, a ball in t’other hand.” The “caddies” get for each round of 9 holes, 10 cents; for each round of 18 holes, 15 cents.

 

The Fever is Raging
The golf fever in its most virulent form has attacked the hotel guests and has even extended among the strangers outside the bounds of the hotel. It makes no distinction of class or profession. The clergymen have it quite as bad as the lawyers, and the lawyers have it as bad as the doctors, and all the other professions are similarly affected. Even the women are not exempt from it, some of the latter having the fever very bad. In its early stages, the patient evinces a desire to carry a stick with a crook on the business end of it. Then he wants to strike something with the aforesaid stick. As the disease becomes acute he throws off the ordinary habiliments of man, and dons knee breeches and queer sorts of leg adornments. Coats are cast aside, shirt sleeves are rolled up, and all day long through cold or heat, with the perspiration rolling down his face and trickling in dusty streams under his shirt band, he pounds an innocent little ball, not much bigger than a quinine pill, over a ten-acre field, chasing it out of one hole into another and endeavouring with each stroke to force it farther on its journey. If he can corner it in a bed of thistles or among a pile of rocks he takes special delight in hammering the poor thing out of its hiding place. There are other symptoms in connection with the disease, but these are most prominent, and render a diagnosis of it very easy. The only remedy for it seems to be an application of snow to the affected spot, but as such can only be obtained in the winter season, the disease must be permitted to run itself until then. The patient must be kept cool and as his appetite becomes very vigorous it is absolutely necessary that he should be well dieted. By carrying out these instructions the disease can be kept pretty well in check until the cold weather sets in. There is grave danger, however, that if grip does not get its work in the meantime the patient will have a more malignant attack the following season.
[Is the "ten acre field" must be the course in front of the hotel?]

 

Beacon
Aug 8/1895
Golf Strokes
The handicap tournament which occupied four days last week at Joe's Point links was won by Rev. Dr. Barclay, of Montreal. Geoffrey Wheelock, of Boston, was second man. Among the ladies, Miss Gardiner, of Boston, was the leader. She was closely followed by Mrs. Nowell, of Massachusetts. The tournament excited considerable interest. The magnificent silver cup, which Mr. R. S. Gardiner, of Boston, presented to the Algonquin Club, and which has won the admiration of all who have seen it, was competed for at a handicap match on Monday and Tuesday, two rounds of 36 holes being played. Dr. Swetland, of Ottawa, became the proud possessor the cup. . . . Dr. Barclay, of Montreal, has broken the "links" record, covering 9 holes in 39 strokes. He is delighted with the links and says it is among the best on the continent. J. A. Woolston, of Cambridge, Mass., who was among the Algonquin guests of last year, noticing in the Beacon the great interest that is being taken in the game, has presented to the Algonquin Golf club two setts of golf sticks to be competed for. There are six sticks in a set, and they are known as a wooden driver, a brassy driver, an iron, a cleek, a mashy and a putter. The sticks will be competed for this week.

 

Beacon
Aug 15/1895
the golf fever has broken out in a new spot. It has extended to the cattle that roam in the neighborhood of the links. One frisky steer, in his eagerness to grasp the mysteries of the game, went around he other day and ate up all the rules that were posted about the ground. As a number of golf balls have been lost, it is probably that he has started a collection of them within him. He is to be pitied if he tries to masticate any of the golf sticks that he find lying around loose.

 

Beacon
Sept 12/1895
Golf is to be made one of the leading features in St. Andrews next summer. A Boston artist was here this week taking a sketch of Joe's Point links and surroundings, with a view to having a bird's eye view printed and circulated among the golf clubs of America. a competition, involving prizes amounting in value to $500 is talked of for next season.

 

Beacon
Sept 19/1895
Links being improved for next season.

 

Beacon
Jan 16/1896
With the new addition to the laundry, we have decided to place that under an individual management, which insures us better results for the future. From the large number of arrangements for rooms for the coming year and the many inquiries we are having, we are sure that we shall have all the guests that we can take care of during the season of 1896. As for pleasure and amusements for the guests, we are going to make this season a special effort to make everything attractive. We are quite sure our golf links cannot be excelled and from the present indications they bid fair to become well-known among the lovers of that game as being the best in the country. We hear in a quiet way that several valuable prizes are to be presented to the Algonquin Club for several tournaments that are surely to take place."

 

Beacon
Feb 20/1896
The Algonquin “folder” for 1896 is quite a handsome specimen of the engraver’s art. A striking feature of its is the illustration of the Algonquin Golf Club links at Joe’s Point. The management hold out the expectation of several golfing tournaments during the approaching season. A. W. Weeks will be manager of the hotel this year. “While maintaining the general reputation of the Algonquin as an enjoyable summer home he will make the excellence of the table a special and notable feature,” the circular says.

 

Beacon
June 25/1896
Golf suits and bicycle suits for sale in handmade homespun, Oxford homespun and Scotch tweed. Hanson and Grady, Merchant Tailors.

 

Beacon
July 16/1896
William Winch elected president of golf club.

 

Beacon
July 23/1896
First golf tournament July 18. List of scores.

 

Beacon
July 30/1896
The golf links is the Mecca of the summer visitor. Thither every day scores of enthusiastic players direct their footsteps, and from morning to night the play is kept up with great spirit, the ladies taking quite as much delight in it as the gentlemen."

 

Beacon
Sept 2/1897
The Golf Club had a meeting last week when it was determined to extend the links the full eighteen holes. the St. Andrews links will be the only one in “the north country” to have the complete distance.

 

Beacon
Sept 9/1897
Messrs. Wheelock and MacDonald, of the St. Andrews Golf Club, are laying out the additional nine holes to the south of Joe's Point Road. The Algonquin is now the only summer hotel in the country that can boast of an eighteen-hole golf links. (This would seem to indicate that the first course at Joe's Point was nine holes)

 

Beacon
March 31/1898
First Algonquin Ad of season. 18-hole golf course emphasized.

 

Beacon
May 12/1898
A large crew of men are employed on the golf links at Joe’s Point, getting hem ready for summer play. When the they have finished their work, St. Andrews will own the finest 18 hole course in the country.

 

Beacon
July 14/1898
Burton’s golf wagon is now making regular trips between the Algonquin hotel and the golf grounds. Peter Johnson is driver

 

Beacon
July 14/1898
Among the Golfers
The golf enthusiasts are arriving daily and one and all express delight at the magnificent 18-hole course which St. Andrews now possesses.

 

Beacon
July 28/1898
With the Golf Players
. . . the handicap tournament for gentlemen on Friday was both exciting and interesting. A large number of gentlemen competed but Mr. Forgan, who played from the scratch, won by a score of 87. the 18 holes were played.

 

Beacon
Aug 11/1898
Grand Golf tournament
The present week is one of the greatest interest to the visiting golfers at St. Andrews. On Monday, the grand tournament began at Joe’s Point Links, between twenty and thirty one of the best golf players in the United States and Canada. Two magnificent cups are the prizes. the first prize is a cup of solid silver, standing six inches in height. On one side of it is engraved the words “Algonquin Golf Club, Tournament 1898,” and on the reverse side appear the raised figures of a lady and gentleman golf-player. the latter has his stick raised in the act of striking a ball which is hidden among Scotch thistles, the lady player watching the effect of the stroke with great intentness. The consolation cup stands quite as high as the other and is a very handsome prize. the play on Monday and Tuesday determined the two team of eight players each who were eligible to complete for the two prizes.
            the medal for the lowest score in the first two days play was won by Philip M. Prescott, Jr., of Washington.
            the names of the sixteen players who qualified for the cup competitions were as follows:--
For St. Andrews Cup
Philip M. Prescot, Jr.    194
W. O. Underwood                   196
Kenneth Sills                           200
C. S. Van Rensellear   203
W. H. Wilder, Jr.                      204
Jeremiah Smith, Jr.                  208
Joseph R. Swan                     210
William Hope                            212
Clifford Brigham                      212

 

Beacon
Aug 25/1898
A golf links has been laid out at “Risford,” Mr. J. Emory Hoar’s beautiful summer home.

 

Beacon
March 16/1899
Death of Mr. Robert S. Gardiner
A Man Who was Active in Promoting St. Andrews as a Summer Resort
The news of the death of Mr. Robert S. Gardiner of Boston, which was received here on Thursday, occasioned a painful shock. For fully twenty years Mr. Gardiner had been intimately associated with the life of St. Andrews, so that the people had begun to regard him as one of themselves.
            Mr. Gardiner's first connection with St. Andrews was as a summer visitor and dates back to the seventies. He and his family became so much attached to the place as a summer home that their visits were as regular as the flight of the swallows. They roomed at the Argyll hotel, until the construction of the Algonquin in 1889, when they made that hotel their summer refuge. Subsequently, Mr. Gardiner erected a beautiful cottage on the crest of the hill overlooking Katy's Cove. There he and his family spent several delightful seasons the first break in their happiness occurring last year, when Mrs. Gardiner died after a lingering illness.
            It was while he was a guest at the Argyll hotel, that Mr. Gardiner, together with Mr. F. W. Cram, then manager of the New Brunswick Railway, conceived the idea of developing St. Andrews as a summer resort. To think with them was to act. As a result of the joint endeavours of the two gentlemen, (who were able to associate with them an number of American capitalists) the Algonquin Hotel company, the St. Andrews Land Company and the Chamcook Water Company were formed. In the summer of 1888 the Land Company acquired control of the plot of ground to the south of the railway tract. By the expenditure of a considerable sum of money this was converted into a very pretty natural park, and a sample summer cottage erected therein. The company also purchased all the most desirable lots that they could obtain, their purchases giving the town quite a boom. The brick building, now occupied by The Beacon, was likewise constructed by the company. While the Land Company was thus employed, the Hotel Company was not idle. The magnificent Algonquin,--the handsomest summer hotel in eastern Canada,--was erected by them and in 1889 was thrown open to the public. These projects, which involved the expenditure of many thousands of dollars, owe their origin almost entirely to the energy and business shrewdness of the two gentlemen we have named. When Mr. Cram severed his connection with the railway, he was not able to devote so much of his time as he had formerly done to the promotion of St. Andrews interests, but Mr. Gardiner's interest never faltered. His hand figured very largely in the construction of the addition to the Algonquin a few years ago. The establishment of a golf links here was Mr. Gardiner's idea. As a result of his endeavours, the present links at Joe's Point, which is acknowledge to be the most beautifully situated in America, was laid out. At his own cost, he erected a club-house and presented it to the Golf Club. He also contributed some very costly prizes for golf competitions.

 

Beacon
July 13/1899
The golf links at Joe’s Point promises to be a popular attraction this year. The number of players who frequent tit is increasing daily. On Monday the little “red wagon” began its regular trips between the hotel and the golf course.

 

Beacon
July 20/1899
SA golf club to play Saint John. Match with Campobello club before summer ends.

 

Beacon
Aug 3/1899
Golf at SA
The Saint John Golfers Meet with Unexpected Defeat
The Saint John golfers met their Waterloo on the Algonquin golf grounds on Saturday. The weather was charming and the battle royal was witnessed by a large number of spectators. The elegant equipages gathered on the road-side, the gay colored costumes of the players on the links, and the pretty dresses of the hotel waitresses who were brought to the grounds to assist in the entertainment of the visiting players made the scene at once enlivening and picturesque.

 

Beacon
Aug 10/1899
A grand golf tournament is to be played on the St. Andrews golf grounds this weekend. Six prizes have been provided for the lady players and four for the gentlemen.

 

SA golf Club to play return match in Saint John. Wednesday and Saturday evenings at A now devoted to dancing.

 

Beacon
Aug 17/1899
The prizes for the golf contests are displayed in the hotel. They are a magnificent collection, having been selected in Montreal.

 

Beacon
Aug 24/1899
The wisdom of the late Mr. R. S. Gardiner in establishing a golf links as an adjunct to the summer hotel at St. Andrews is becoming every year more apparent. This season it has been the grand drawing card. Players from far and near have come to St. Andrews to test the qualities of its famous links, and have been so fascinated by it that they have lingered long after their allotted time. It is not stretching the truth in any degree to say that the best golf players in the Canada and the United States have been gathered at the St. Andrews links this season, and are returning to their home with delightful memories of chasing the sphere over the most picturesque golf ground in America. This season the Algonquin golf club have had some interesting competitions. None proved more delightful than the matches with Saint John, in both of which the Saint John players were defeated. Nevertheless, it is likely that no outside matches will be played after this season. If any outside clubs desire to pay they will be accommodated if they come to SA, but the home club will remain at home.  This is the present feeling of the leading members of the St. Andrews club. Perhaps, however, they may revise their opinion before another season comes about.

 

Golf Fever is at its Height
There was a sound of revelry by night and Charlotte's capital reverberated with huzzas as it had never reverberated before when the victorious golfers returned from Saint John on Wednesday night last. The Algonquin cry was initiated by Stoughton Bell as the victors reached the hotel piazza, and it was taken up by three score throats, making a din that nearly lifted the hotel roof. Chinese lanterns were displayed and rockets were sent up in honor of the home coming. Some enthusiastic ones even wanted to carry the victors in triumph, but they objected to this form of hero worship and insisted on walking in on the feet which had carried them to victory.
            The triumph over the Saint John golfers, notwithstanding that he grounds were entirely new to them, was complete, both the ladies and the gentlemen winning, the former by 7 and the latter by 37. . . . The Algonquin golf club now has a membership of 160. Miss Wells is the crack golfer of the Campobello golf club. She plays a splendid game. Miss Wells is a daughter of Mrs. Kate Gannet Wells, the well-known writer.

 

Beacon
Aug 24/1899
Golf course Algonquin's "grand drawing card." Best players in Canada and U.S. have been on it.

 

Beacon
Sept 1/1899
The Tourist Season
The summer season, so far as tourist is concerned, is at and end. The summer girl and the summer man have put on their hats, packed up their valises, stowed away their bundle of golf sticks, broken the summer engagements, and have hastened back to the grind of city life, with a fresh stock of tan and freckles, a fresh stock of stories to while away the long winter months, and what is of more importance, a fresh stock of health and energy. A few still linger with us, but the great army of summer sojourners has passed away. This year, the Passamaquoddy retreats have enjoyed an unprecedentedly large patronage from this source. Campobello, Grand Manan, and even the other islands where no pretensions are made to keeping summer boarders, have all had a larger number of people than have ever before have accommodated. The hotels and boarding houses have been filled and every available lodging house has been utilized. The quality of our visitors has not deteriorated. The very best people from everywhere have stayed with us this season, and many have given assurance that they will return another year. The golf grounds have proved a great attraction. Then, the fact that the British Society had recommended the establishment of the marine Biological station here induced many scientists and literary men and women to visit the place. On the whole the season has been a highly satisfactory one from a tourist point of view, and the indications for next year are very bright.

 

Beacon
August 2/1900
The Campobello Hotels are being well patronized.
Golf Tournament—St. John golfers have a very pleasant meeting at St. Andrews. (details of golfers, etc.)

 

Beacon
Aug 16/1890
A grand golf tournament, for which magnificent silver cups prizes are offered, is now in progress on the Algonquin links. The Passaconway golf team from York Beach, Maine, is expected to pay here next Monday and Tuesday.

 

Beacon
Sept 6/1900
Improvements to golf course coming. This season a high water mark, owing partly to the fine prizes offered. Some by the club, some by individuals.

 

Beacon
April 18/1901
Mr. John Peacock, golf expert, of SA, has laid out a golf links at the Owen Hotel, Campobello.

 

Beacon
May 30/1901
The golf bus in which Peter Johnson will haul the golfers to and fro from play this summer is a very comfortable vehicle and a decided improvement over the clumsy affair which has been in use in past seasons.

 

Beacon
June 6/1901
Down on Campobello, where the air is laden continually with the balm of the sea, The Owen is reaching out for the summer visitor. This splendid old house has been thoroughly rejuvenated under the direction of Mr. J. J. Alexander, the new proprietor, and is in thorough shape from top to bottom. Among the attractions added is a golf links. Mr. Alexander has received much encouragement in his venture and thinks that he will have a good run of business.

 

Beacon
July 11/1901
Though there have been many players on the Algonquin golf links this season, the summer rush of golfers has hardly set in yet. Peter Johnson is now running his handsome new bus regularly between the Algonquin hotel and the golf grounds.

 

Beacon
July 25, 1901
What a charming picture for an artist is the Algonquin golf links on a sunshiny day. The fantastic costumes of the players scattered over the verdant field, the nimble caddies hastening hither and thither, and the picturesque surrounding of river and by and town, make up a scene that is truly inspiring. The roll of players this year includes:--
Gentlemen—N. A. Cliff, C. A. Richardson, R. B. Van Horne, Vern Lamb, T. T. Odell. J. smith, W. W. Watson, H. F. Hinckley, Dr. A. E Ham, Justice Street, A. E. Benson, Charles Holt, G. R. Hooper, Edward Burke, T. P. Curtis, J. H. Allen, J. D. Randall, We. B. Wendell, George Ethridge, T. J. Morrison, Rev. At. T. Bowser, Henry Reed Bowser, T. R. Wheelock G. M. Wheelock, T. G Wheelock, Jr. R. Fletcher, Dean Sills.
Ladies—Miss E. V. Ludlam, Miss Wendell, Miss Van Horne, Miss Hazen, Miss E. H. Smith, Mrs. Charles Allen, Miss Gardiner, Miss Benson, Miss R. Benson, Mrs. Charles Holt, Miss Williams, Mrs. George Ethridge, Mrs. J. H. Allen, Mrs. Nathan A. Woodlin, Miss Inness, Miss Sweetland, Mrs. J. B. Fletcher, Miss M. A. Sills.

 

Beacon
August 1/1901
Another golf tournament between Algonquin and Saint John. We win again

 

Beacon
Aug 8/1901
Algonquin management offering golf cup in tournament of 30 to 40 golfers to last all week. Geoffrey and Gordon Wheelock (brothers) fight it out for first place.

 

Beacon
Sept 5/1901
On Tuesday the Tyn-y-Coed golfers visited St. Andrews and played a game wit the Algonquins. After a sharply-contested platy, the Algonquins became winners. Score: Algonquin, 18, Tyn-y-Coed, 15. There were some splendid players among the visitors. The Misses Porter and Wells were particularly strong players.

 

Beacon
April 9/1903
The Algonquin golf course will be enlarged to an 18 hole course this summer. The Brixton property, recently purchased, will be included therein. A portion of the Alms House farm may also be leased for the purpose. A professional golfer from Toronto will arrive here in a few days to look over and lay out the ground.

 

Beacon
April 16/1903
Laying out the Golf Links
Mr. George Cumming, of the Toronto Golf Club, was in St. Andrews on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, laying out an eighteen hole golf course for the Algonquin golf club. He is delighted with the St. Andrews links.

 

Beacon
May 7/1903
The summer sojourners At St. Andrews in 1903 will find some changes for the better here. They will find amore beautiful Algonquin, a more extensive golf links, a brighter and more hopeful town. Though the CPR only took hold of St. Andrews as a summer resort a few weeks ago they have already done much towards improving it and extending its fame, and it is their intention to do more.

 

Beacon
June 25/1903
On Golf Links
Features of the New Golf Course
Devotees of golfing, who have chased the ball over the old golf links at St. Andrews in past seasons will find a great change for the better in the new links. Not that the ground is any better, nor the view any more entrancing, but the links are more extensive. More ground has been taken in, and instead of a nine-hole course there is now an eighteen-hole course that has no superior in Canada. (might it be that in 1900, 1901 and 1902, when no eighteen hole course appears in the ad, that the small links in front of the hotel was removed, reducing the course to nine instead of 18 holes?)
            Mr. Peacock, the golf professional, who cares for this green, is working it into fine shape. Horses and men, lawn-mowers and rollers are busily employed in getting the ground into the desire condition. Mr. Peacock expects to have everything ready for Monday next. Already there have been a number of players on the field.
            In addition to the extensions and improvements on the grounds, the club house is being enlarged.
            A few of the chief features and playing demands of the new links are appended:--
            First hole—Good rive to carry over road and bunker
            Second hole—a drive to carry across pit and trap and approach around a corner.
            Third—Good drive and a brassy to carry ball over hazard to reach the green.
            Fourth—A mid-iron shot, ditch to carry.
            Fifth—Good drive and a mid-iron shot over soldier’s bunker
            Sixth—Strong drive and a brassy to carry the hazard on to the green. The player should pause here to enjoy the panorama of river and bay.
            Seventh—A walk through the woods of 50 yards and a good drive, cleek shot to carry a bunker onto the green.
            Eighth—Longest hole, 560 yards, has been covered in five shots; can be done in four; drive to carry bunker; 2 brassies to carry ditch; approach to green; over-run into woods.
            Ninth—Drive to carry over swamp and approach over a bunker on to the green; over-run to road.
            Tenth—Cleek shot to carry pond and road on to green.
            Eleventh—Good drive to green to carry ditch.
            Twelfth—Good drive to carry fences, and mid-iron shot to approach over apple trees.
            Thirteen—A drive to swamp and ditch on to green.  
            Fourteen—A drive to green to carry over a brook; to over-run green will go in pond.
            Fifteen—a drive to carry ditch; a slice or a pull will go in woods; approach shot.
            Sixteen—Drive to carry natural hazard, a brassy to green.
            Seventeen—Cleek shot to reach green must carry over brook
            Eighteen—Drive to carry a trap and approach to green; over-run green will be in hazard.

 

Beacon
July 30/1903
New golf clubhouse and grounds at St. Stephen to be opened tomorrow.

 

Beacon
Aug 6/1903
C. N. to be formed. Another line from coast to coast. Yardage of each hole on golf course. Ladies to compete for cup offered by Miss Reta Benson.
The new golf course is proving very popular. The course is divided as follows:--

 

  1. Club House—225 yards
  2. Kidd’s treasure—235 yards
  3. Knoll, 300 yards
  4. Target, 125 yards
  5. Joe’s Point, 225 yards
  6. Grove, 400 yards
  7. Westward Ho, 300 yards
  8. Big Spruce, 550 yards
  9. Cedars, 235 yards
  10. Haw Trees, 135 yards
  11. Eastward Ho, 290 yards
  12. Apple Trees, 315 yards
  13. Maple Tree, 160 yards
  14. Brook, 170 yards
  15. Swamp, 215 yards
  16. Cedar Lane, 390 yards
  17. The Stumps, 140 yards
  18. Home, 205 yards. (total—4615 yards)

Beacon
Aug 11/1904
Golf game between cottagers and hotel players.
           
Beacon
March 16/1905
A new golf club house is to be built on Cedar Lane, near where the Brickson House stood. (This was Maria Brickson, the mother of Caddy Norris).

 

Beacon
While here last week, Mr. O’Leary arranged for the building of another Golf Club House on Cedar Lane. He expected to do some cottage building this spring but it is now too late of this season.

 

Beacon
April 13/1905
The Most Perfect Canadian Resort
From the Montreal Gazette:
Money is to be spent by the C. P. R. to make SA-by-the-Sea one of the most attractive seaside resorts in the world. This announcement was made yesterday by Hayter Reid, manager of the company’s hotels. St. Andrews has for some time been patronized as a most congenial spot to spend the summer months, and so certain is the company that it can be made vastly more alluring to the leisure-loving public that they have decided not only to beautify it further, but to advertise the spot as a perfect summer resort. This means that more attention will be paid to St. Andrews as a place where Canadians can find all the pleasures of an Atlantic coast resort without going to the United States. Up to the present time visitors to St. Andrews have been from Boston and New York very largely, but the desire of the C. P. R. is to have people from all parts of the Dominion spend their summer months at a Canadian resort, and SA-by-the-Sea is held to be the most delightful spot that Canada can offer. In speaking of the efforts to be made, Mr. Reid said the company is ready to place every attraction at St. Andrews which the public could wish. Golf links would be made a feature of the resort and beautiful drives, bathing and hotel accommodations were to be given their proper attention.

 

Beacon
June 15/1905
New golf club house built by Angus Rigby now ready for occupation.

 

Beacon
July 27/1905
Golf Notes—The Algonquin golf ground offers an inspiring picture for the artist on a bright summer day, when it is dotted with scores of merry players of both sexes and of all ages. Almost every profession and calling in life is represented on the green at such times,--clergymen, lawyers, doctors, railroad magnates, etc. On Saturday, the Cacouna golf players were defeated in both singles and foursomes by the Algonquin players. There are many crack golf players among the Algonquins, but Major Bigge’s score of 74 for the eighteen holes has not been beaten. The Saturday afternoon golf teas are becoming very popular.

 

Beacon
Aug 10/1905
“These are merry days on the golfing ground. From morn till eve the ground is occupied with light-hearted players, arrayed in all the costumes of the rainbow, but all with that free and easy way about them, that is characteristic of the golf enthusiast.”

 

Beacon
Aug 2/1906
Golf Notes—The situation of the new Golf Club house has not been satisfactory to the players and this week the Club’s effects were removed to the old building. In the winter the new building will be moved over alongside the old one.

 

Beacon
July 30/1908
P. G. Hanson--golf coats: “Honey comb golf coats, buttoned down the front, two pockets, navy, grey and cardinal. Golf coats, made of fine knitted worsted, fancy stitch design, in colors white, navy and oxford. Full sleeves with close ribbed cuffs.”