New York City's Indoor Golf Course 



It is played with stove-pipes, bricks, barrels 

 and rugs in the rooms of a downtown club 



Indoor golf is played without the aid of caddies. No balls are lost, and no golf suits are worn. 

 Nine holes of the course are laid out in the assembly room of the club and nine in the gymnasium 



WITH steam heat and elevators, in- 

 direct lighting to take the place of 

 sunshine, and art works on the walls 

 to compensate for the lack of landscape. 

 New York enjoys its game of golf in a 

 luxurious club or hotel. This was demon- 

 strated during the winter when the rooms of 

 the Telephone Club were the scene of a 

 spirited contest, with ninety-one entrants, 

 playing for a silver loving cup and other 

 valuable prizes over an eighteen-hole course. 



The players start in the Assembly Room 

 with a shot over the polished floor to the 

 edge of the rug. It is not so easy as it 

 seems; for the ball must be in position for a 

 shot through a stove pipe elbow to the hole. 

 Hole 2 is on the edge of the rug, with a neat 

 little barricade of bricks about it in a semi- 

 circle, with a small opening. To make the 

 approach to the third hole difficult, bricks 

 are placed under the rug about the hole to 

 make a lumpy surface that sends the ball 

 rolling erratically. The fourth hole is 

 placed on an incline so that the ball glides 

 back unless it is skilfully played. 



A carom against a pillar is involved in 

 making hole number 5. Hole 6 is entered 

 through a length of straight stove pipe. 

 Now you tackle a wooden incline with 



a four inch hole in order to reach No. 7. 



Hole 8 is a typical side-hill putt proposi- 

 tion, with a cup set at an upward angle. 

 For hole 9 a shot is made through an open 

 doorvvay to an antechamber, where a 

 woven-grass rug provides a fast green. 



This concludes the course in the Assembly 

 Room. Now come the nine holes in the 

 gymnasium, where hole number 10 is next 

 attempted through a three-way device, 

 which is likely to send the ball far afield if 

 not carefully handled. After a carom to 

 hole II, the twelfth hole is played up a 

 carpet runner from the floor to the stage. 

 The unlucky number which follows involves 

 a shot down from the stage and up another 

 incline to a level spot. 



After this, hole 14, which is completely 

 surrounded with bricks and requires the use 

 of a mashie. seems not so difficult. 



Hole 15 involves simply a straight shot 

 along a runner to a hole on a raised plat- 

 form. Sixteen is a relief to the tired 

 golfer — a straight hole, without obstacles or 

 concealed traps. On hole 17 are three 

 bunkers, the hole being located between 

 second and third. As a grand finale comes 

 hole 18 — a barrel hung from the ceiling. For 

 this a mashie and three trials are allowed. 



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