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a June 25, 1927 WINNETKA TALK yi TTT] " HTT Players Find Joys of Golf; Course Hard Site Bought on Leasehold Money Now Possesses a Beautiful Clubhouse This is the fourth of a series of stories describing the great golf clubs of the north shore. The story herewith presented explains how shrewd judgment "made" the North Shore Golf club. By RAY C. PEARSON I golf clubs of the north shore, or in fact any other district, required advertising to assure success, the North Shore Golf club, possessor of a beautiful clubhouse and an equally beauti- ful course, probably would play as its big "line" in bold face type this informatory : "North Shore--A club estab- lished on sound judgment." "Sound judgment" -- nothing original, or particularly catchy about it. But read about North Shore and learn the interesting story of how this fine golf club on the north shore became what it is today because the officials and the members looked into the future with Solomon- like wisdom, listened and heard the knock of opportunity and using the aforementioned sound judgment promptly opened the door wide. One knock was sufficient. Shrewd and Alert Shrewd and alert were those men who started North Shore back in 1909 and just as shrewd and alert were the men of North Shore who a little more than three years ago saw the "main chance" and took advantage of it. But we'll let Hugh Kuhl, tell it in his own way. = "When we formed our club eighteen years ago we leased forty acres of land west of the railroad tracks on Lake street," he says. "Our club, then, we thought, was a fine one. Originally it was of nine hole length. Later we ex- panded and constructed an eighteen hole course and then we thought we'd accomplished a great feat. "The growth of golf was in leaps and bounds in those years and we had a nice comfortable club on Lake street until four years ago, when along came Old Man Opportunity, represented by a group of men who had formed the mn I 1 | SETHE ERE EEE TTT TTR HIN | TT TTT LULU TE EE EE EE CT Tr TS TT TTT North Shore Golf Clubs ET TTT THE PICTURES: North Shore's fine clubhouse (top); Earl R. Green, club champion (lower left) ; Mrs. Homer H. Harrison, club champion (lower right) ; No. 3, a water hole (bottom). Northmore Golf club. The chance to sell our lease came. We sold. "But that's getting a little ahead of the story. Some little time before we sold, some of our "navigators" had spot- ted a plot of farm land on the bend of Glenview road just this side of Wau- kegan road. They got inquisitive and discovered that another golf club, a big one in Chicago, held an option on the land. "We wanted that ground for our new club, wanted it so badly, that we de- cided -ve'd take a spell of watchful TIT T pe a be club was going to do. Our patience was rewarded for the Chicago club per- went 55 ; 3 PHOTO BY LEHLE waiting to see what the Chicago golf mitted their option to expire. Then we after it hot and heavy. (Continued on Page 23) Aud