Summary

These, then, are the main thing's to bear in mind, and I may repeat them shortly as follows:

For the purpose of making an eighteen hole course, look out first for at least two hundred acres of the best pasture land, provided that you cannot get the genuine golf land by the sea. Avoid a clay soil.

Make your course seventy-five yards wide at every hole and remove every tree, ditch and stone from its surface.

Locate your putting greens first with regard to natural situation, and then model your distances upon the St. Andrews links in Scotland. Roll your course every spring, and keep it close cut with mowing machines in summer. Make your putting greens as perfect as the abundant use of water and the mowing machine will permit.

Let all your hazards be sand bunkers, with the addition of a water hazard if nature supplies it.

Make your bunkers large and varied in shape - you cannot make them too large -and guard all your putting greens either on one or upon every side.