This 28 page booklet was published in 1917, when Tillinghast maintained his office in Philadelphia in the Mutual Life Building. Peterson, Sinclaire & Miller ran an established golf course construction business. This firm was also associated with golf architect Willie Park. The booklet is part instructional and part promotional.

THE creation of a thoroughly modern course cannot be accomplished by the haphazard methods of the past. Each step must be considered carefully and scientifically with a knowledge of the demands of the game.

THE palyers over resort courses are becoming fastidious. They insist upon courses of merit. A dozen years ago when a hotel was opened up for the season the boss would send out the hired man with a scythe to cut the greens before the 'bus came in with the first arrivals. But they can't succeed with the old style hotel course in these days. The players refuse to accept poor playgrounds, and although it is costly business to build and maintain a course, yet it seems to be good buiness for the proprietors of the golf hotels are prospering.

IT IS desirable that an expert advise in the selection of ground for a proposed course. In his eyes the undeveloped ground is a finished creation and his experience enables him to determine immediately the most promising site. A modern course requires from one hundred to one hundred and fifty acres, although in some instances, when the tracts have been spread out considerably, very satisfactory lay-outs have placed eighteen holes on a trifle less than ninety acres.

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.

In the stuy of this sketch it must be borne in mind that Mr. Rainey desired a course only for the exclusive use of himself and a small coterie of friends. Consequently, there was no objection to crossing the lines of play, which would be unheard of in planning regularly.

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.

THERE is scarcely a city of any consequence which has not provided a municipal golf course for the public or given the matter serious consideration.

Wherever these courses have been built the people have shown their appreciation by taxing the course to capacity.

It will be observed that the greens represented by these sketchs are of irregular shapes. No longer do we confine our putting greens to symmetry.

An up-to-date variation of solid mound work. Here the rough sides have been turfed, but sand has been introduced to relieve the monotony and tufted grass planted in an attempt to imitate dune growth. Lyme grass is admirable for this purpose.