As Chicago Golf Club prepares for the arrival of
United States Golf Association Amateur Championship,
Club professional Dave Foulis
proclaims the "very best of condition"
American Golfer September 1912
Barring such accidents as befell the Denver course just before the start of the Western, the Chicago course should be in the very best of condition for the tournament. Professional Dave Foulis has had a corps of assistants at work on the course constantly, not only building up, but keeping up and nursing it. It is felt now that the arrangement of the course could not be improved upon and the only thing Foulis has to do is to keep the condition of the ground and grass from slipping back. As he has almost unlimited resources with which to work, there is no reason why the course should not rank with any in the country when the tournament is started.
Now let me see is there any other way we could put a little more pressure on the green keeping crew ?
.........Nope don't think so.
Here is what British golf writer Henry "Americans suck at golf" Leach thought of the conditions as reported in American Golfer magazine. "Thanks to the energy, ability and discernment of David Foulis, the greenkeeper, it was in good condition, despite the excessive heat, as it possibly be got to. I do not think I have ever seen better putting greens on an inland course, and their quality astonished me....."
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The
picture below is off the ninth green, one of C.B. MacDonald's best.
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