Augusta National

Robert Tyre Jones II, for whom Georgia has killed a great many fatted calves, last week opened a new golf course of his own planning, the Augusta National. The course--6,700 yd. from the back tees --was designed by Golf Architect Allister MacKenzie, with Jones's help. Intended to be the "ideal course" for both experts and dubs, it contained only 22 traps. Its appearance--rolling ground in a pleasant valley edged by pine trees--suggested that another Bobby Jones, Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones, had done the settings. Jones escorted foursomes of new members and celebrities invited for the opening over his course last week, scoring unobtrusive 69's while his friends hacked out what they could.

The Augusta National is a project planned along the lines of the National Golf Links of America, in Long Island's Shinnecock Hills; a links to rank among the world's finest for the use of the country's foremost. Back of the idea was Fielding Wallace, Augusta textile manufacturer who makes "press cloth" out of human hair imported from China. He and his friends formed the holding company to buy a tract of 364 acres, of which the club now uses 192. Memberships--of which Bobby Jones, the club's president, thinks 500 will be plenty--will cost $350, with $60 dues. The clubhouse is an oldfashioned, wide-planked Southern mansion, charmingly furnished; the club's professional, selected by Jones, is tall Ed Dudley, of Savannah.

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