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when one may not complete his round of 18 

 holes without feeling unduly fatigued, if in 

 anything like condition. 



The golf play as a rule is fair. Several 

 of the players in Hawaii are men who 

 learned their game in Scotland, or on the 

 older links in the East, and their form has 

 been copied largely by the younger men, 

 who are getting into the game with much 

 enthusiasm. The most recently formed club, 

 the Manoa, has a membership of ioo, with a 

 small club house and a 9 hole course laid 

 out in the beautiful valley of Manoa, 20 



turn. With Honolulu and the bay lying to 

 the East, the magnificent stretches of Pearl 

 harbor, surrounded by luxuriant cane fields 

 toward the West, where the purple Waianae 

 mountains furnish the background for the 

 picture, pleasing vistas are viewed at every 

 turn. The Honolulu Club plays a series of 

 tournaments each year, concluding in the 

 fall with a foursome contest which attracts 

 seldom less than a score of players. 



Adjoining the beautiful resort hotel of 

 Haleiwa, situated 56 miles from Honolulu 

 on the line of the Oahu railway, are the 



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minutes' car ride from the business centre 

 of the city. The oldest club is the Honolulu 

 Golf Club, which plays over the Moanalua 

 course, furnished by the Honorable S. M. 

 Damon on his own estate. This course cov- 

 ers a portion of one valley and the adjacent 

 foothill plateau, over which the grass is 

 kept conveniently short, and the greens 

 clipped to a nicety. The greens there are 

 of regulation size and are kept as carefully 

 as a dooryard. It would be hard to find more 

 alluring tropical beauty than that on which 

 Moanalua golfers rest their eyes at every 



Haleiwa links. These are the nearest ap- 

 proach to the highest class Scottish links 

 that can be imagined. The soil is sandy, 

 covered by short, springy turf, and the 

 course lies on the seacoast. This combina- 

 tion of advantages gives the sportiest links 

 possible. There is a splendid bunker in the 

 shape of a sand pit, the effect of which is 

 demoralizing ; and there are a number of 

 hazards through the green. The 9 holes 

 have been made in 35 by Downey, who was 

 so pleased with this course that he spent a 

 month enjoying the North shore resort. 



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