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fully removed and transplanted on spaces between fairways, giving a 

 delightful forestlike effect to this section of the course. Any unnecessary 

 destruction of tree growth should be avoided. 



2. A golf course should never start with a short hole for the reason 

 that it slows the game at the very beginning. It is not desirable to intro- 

 duce a short hole until the third or fourth hole, and never more than two 

 in any public course of nine holes. 



3. As a general rule, where a community has only one course, a design 

 that makes play so difficult that only very good players or professionals 

 find enjoyment in playing, should be avoided. Likewise it is debatable 

 whether it is good economy to go to the expense of constructing a course 

 of professional perfection for beginners or poor players to practice over. 

 If a community has two or more courses one of them at least should be 

 designed for the exercise of skilled play. 



4. In so far as it is possible orient the fairways in a general northerly 

 and southerly direction so as to avoid the rays of the morning and evening 

 sun falling directly in the line of play. 



5. A golf course should never be so located that one or more of the 

 fairways run adjacent to or parallel to a heavily traveled highway, nor 

 should a course be laid out where fairways will cross pleasure driveways 

 or any other type of highway. These two serious faults are frequently 

 found where golf courses are laid out in old landscaped parks whose original 

 designs did not include such a feature as a golf course. In most of these 

 situations noted throughout the country the systems of driveways should 

 be replanned if the golf courses are to remain features of the parks. On 

 the whole it is undesirable to introduce golf courses in a large city recrea- 

 tion park unless the park is of such size that an area for golf can be set 

 off completely from other parts of the park. 



6. The layout of a golf course should never require players in going 

 from a green to the next tee to cross the line of play on another fairway. 



Organized Camps. 1 



The laying out of an organized camp is city planning in miniature. 

 It involves practically all the problems that are met in planning a small 

 community. Some of the principles to be followed in planning an organized 

 camp are: 



I. Surveys. In addition to boundary and topographical surveys those 

 responsible for the selection of a camp site should make careful surveys of 

 the following: water supply, general health conditions in the neighborhood, 

 sources of fresh milk, meat, vegetables, etc., kinds and quantities of food 



1 For a full discussion of a camp site planning see Chapter III, 'Camp Site Planning,' "Camping Out A 

 Manual on Organized Camping." The Macmillan Company. 



