Active Season is Looked For and Matches With Sleepy Eye and Springfield Are Planned. J. F. Armstrong is President. Club Has Fifty Members and It is Proposed to Increase the Membership Materially.

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The New Ulm Golf club is preparing for an active season and the grounds comprising 80 acres near the stone quarries across the Minnesota river are now being put in shape. It is a nine hole course. The longest hole is 400 yards and the shortest 140 yards, with a total yardage of about 2,200 yards. The course is new and rough, having been used for the first time last year, but before the season is over, it is expected to have it in fair shape.

It is a difficult course to play on because of its condition for one thing and then it has numerous natural hazards which give the golfer considerable trouble. It has a 36 par for the course but it has never been played in par. Thirty-nine is the record so far.

The club has a membership of 50 and is in hopes of increasing the membership materially this year. The officers of the club are: J.F. Armstrong, pres.; R. R. Kemski, vice-pres. and J. B. Groebner, sec-treas. The grounds committee is composed of J. F. Armstrong, S. T. Beecher, E. E. Held, Walter Schleuder and Herbert Schulke.

“Last year several matches were played with Sleepy Eye and Springfield. It is our intention to play matches this year with our neighbors,” says President Armstrong,”and also to have numerous matches on our own grounds among our home membership.

“A great deal of interest is being displayed in the game of golf and as the grounds are improved still more interest will be taken. The grounds which have been acquired by the Golf club are beautiful from a scenic standpoint and when the necessary amount of improving has been done we should have one of the prettiest courses in the country.”

New Ulm Review,

April 17, 1925

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