THE numbers of private courses which are being built prove the unrelaxing hold which the game has everywhere.

Owners of estates, desirous of providing for the undisturbed pleasure of themselves and their friends, are building courses which in many respects are no less notable than those of the Country Clubs.

On the last page of this booklet minature courses -- Lilliput Links, are described, and these provide excellent approaching practice and a place where ladies and children may learn the rudiments of the game in privacy. These miniatures are planned and modeled with the same attention to details as the more ambitious courses.

But many private courses require harder play than do the Lilliputs for the play clubs are given quite as much to do as anywhere. The various holes are conceived to demand all the vigor and cunning which any golfer may possess, and the architect's plans are being placed in the hands of the most famous greenkeepers for development.

On the next page is the sketch of a private course of six holes designed by the writer for Mr. Roy Rainey, and built on no more than six acres on his Long Island estate at Huntington.