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July 29, 1927 WILMETTE LIFE 13 IIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHtllllftiiiMIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllll I J i I I North Shore Golf Clubs lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll .I ' Briargate, 7056 Yards Long, a Difficult Course Long Drivers Get a Thrill at Deerfield But "Old Man Par" at 71 Eludes All Members, Only Two "Pros" Having Beaten Him This is th.e ninth article of a series telling about the great golf club. of the north shore. It describes the Briargate course which is only six years old. Another article will appear next week. By RAY C. PEARSON ~_.,- D ki VE north on vVauKegau road and arriving in Deerfield you'll easi]y find the Briargate Coif club. Then after finding it wander through the . g-rounds, take a peek at the ruur sc and finally step into the clubhouse and hear what the boys h;n·e to say. They'll tell you lots uf things about Briargate, but \\" e '11 set d0\\'11 just a few here as the most interesting and tmj>(Jrta nt : THE PICTURES: The Briargate clubhouse (top) -Arthur H. Harrison. club champion (inset) - a group enjoying the sunshine at a tea table, those pictured being (left to right) Mrs. Thomas J. Cochrane, Miss Ethel Cochrane, Mrs. T. J. Junior of New York. Mrs. John R. Murphy, Mrs. W. B. Johnson, Miss Lillian RyanMrs. William Cook. club champion (bonom). - 1-'l'hc course is the longest in the Chicago district, the yardage: being 7056. lt is well trapped and so difficult to negotiate that no member of the club has been able to break par of 71. Two players have accomplished the trick, hut hot h were professionals. 2-The slogan of ·the club is '·golf for golfers." That means no "rocking chair golf." 3- 'l'hc dining room is one of the "biggest" things at Briargate. An official of the club supplies the information that the club actually turns a profit on food service which is unique, for we are told that most golf clubs finish the sea:-on with an "eats" deficit. Club Six Years Old Briargate is six years old. Back in 1921 William Reay, whose residence in Deerfield was surrounded by eighty acres of nice rolling land got together with some friends and decided it would be just the spot for a golf course. Having decided that, the next step was taken, that of organization. Then one more step, the purchase of an additional eighty acres, was taken. The construction of the course f)Uickly followed and Briargate took its place among the great golf clubs of the ~orth Shore. Frank Stippe who can talk for hours about Briargate, likes to dwell on the story of two Scotchmen (not the t"·o Irishmen). "\Vhen our club was organized " ·e decided to construct a real honest-togoodness course," says Mr. Stippe. "So we imported ·a couple of Scotchmen \\'ho had a reputatinn for building golf courses. \Vhat they did was plenty. They laid out a 'go! f cour~e' all right. <~o out and play on it and yoll'll ~('C why shooting for par is like chasing the welt known rainbo,..·. When their job was finished the two Scotchmen went back home and they'd better not show up around Briargate again, or some member is liable to knock 'em for a row of sad dreams. Old Man Par Ia Elusive Fairly rolling, well trapprd and lull~ the course is a paradi~r for long hittcrs. They call it the wooden club course. Asked if anv our hole wa" more difficult to neg-otiate than t hi' others, we were told that "any par 4 hole is tough ." 011c llH'lllhn has entered the "Hole in one ch1h" l)\· shooting number eleven in oJH' r ff ort. Briargate is playable at almost any time, because it lies high and is never nn·der water. The fairways arc fine. At Espinosa at1d Bob McDonald champion. For three ycar~ in a H)\V he has annexed the title. Among the .;tar pla.::ers are: numbered Arthur JI arrison, ferome ·l3o\\·es, Thomas Shcehc and Fred Brown. ~1rs. \\'illiam Cook i:-, the woma_n \ham pion. ~Irs. George Rosse~ter ts also a good player on the . dtffic~lt course. ~ r~ . J. B. Garnett ts c!latrman of the woman's golf commtttee. Others activ~ in affairs .of the club are ~1rs. \Yilliam \V. Geary. Mrs. Dr. C . . M. Robertson. Mrs. Rollo Gullickson, Mrs. H. S. Marshall, .M rs. Orval Simpson, Mrs. W. R. Jones, Mrs. R. D .. Hessey and Mrs. A. W. Tarbet. As golf comes first at Briaq:~a~c. thelllClllhcrs :-tiil u. e the Rea~· restdence for the clubhouse. This had been con!'iderahlY enlarged, two additions having bee~ built. The membership list is litnitecl to 350 members. "Braves' Day," Big Feature ,'l'he big eYent of the season for the members of .Briargate is "Bravesr DaY." That's the day when all the me;nlwr:-; get out and do their stuff .. . And the hraYes were out plenty last week to perform in tht· allll\tal C:\'CI1t. I ant inhrn1ecl that the ::;pirit nf democran· run:- high, and that ahrays something is being- clone to promote· good fellowship. The latest scheme is to award a loving cup to the man wh<> plays \\'tth tll<· 11Hht nwn!lwr-.. durin~ the season. The third \ \' t·clta· . . <b _ ,. of even lllOnt h i.., ~d aside a . . a day on \\'hi~h the pla~· ers get together. Four dinner dances arc scheduled are the professionals who clipped par for the St' asotl. On Tue!:idays the woat Briargate. Both are long drivers. n·.en have their card parties and play Arthur H. Harrison is the clu'> (Continued on page 18)