At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, I was confronted by an unusual situation. A remarkable attractive stretch of undulating, moor-like country was to be converted into a golf course, but owning to the fact that the artillery and cavalry invaded the section for drill purposes sand pits were not possible. Segregated fairways and a scheme of grass hollows and mound work were necessary. The sketch shows one of the short holes, with the teeeing ground facing the gentle slope of a hill. The twisted fairway and rough grass hollows are illustrated.

Ordinarily it would be out of the question to conceive of a course which was not provided with substantial sand pits, but in this instance Nature had been bountiful, and she must have had golf in her mind when she created this section of the Fort Sam Houston drill ground.