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Page THE HERALD Wednesday October A Golfers Paradise Bermuda By CHRIS LODGE HAMILTON Bermuda Think about Mother Natures Grand Design for sports and imagine her some magnificent easel dcsgming rivers lakes mountains and valleys You might conclude that she re served special place for golfers and their beloved courses If she did that place has to be Bermuda Almost anywhere you go you arc within practically two clublengths of the sea There are nine golf courses on an Island thats Just square miles In all That means for the statistically inclined some holes per square mile And hat makes a lot of fairways greens and sand traps for the permanent residents and the weekly visitors to try o take advantage of every can easily be Bald that Mother Nature picked her spot well All conditions that make golf one of the worlds foremost sports ore found here You ore challenged by gently rolling terrain beauti ful deceptive water hazards arms of the ocean in most and roughs consist ing of oleander hibiscus and numerous other tropical flowers Even Bermudas fall and winter weather promotes the Consider the average daily maximum tempera lures September l October November and December In January February and- March the temperatures reach an average daily of As for the rest of year say weather conditions arc outstanding would be an understatement Clearly when you come to Bermuda to play golf you must be on guard or the id many other ac tions will lure you off the If you your approach shot at Belmonts 18th the bat will skip across a roadway and bring you face to face with the biggest challenge to golf reign as winter king in Bermuda the tennis courts racket in your golf bag seems to be the message for Bermuda bound travellers But then since tennis was introduced to the United States in from Bermuda that is hardly uprising Bui where to start Or the nine golf courses six of them ore holers Belmont Castle Harbour MidOcean Port Royal Princess and Riddell Bay Of the three nineholers two are set at the extreme eastern tip of he island overlooking the his tone town of St Georges Because Bermuda is an aland and an extremely one its widest point is about two miles would be unthinkable not to include PORT ROYAL A gem of a layout Port Royal is moving to challenge magnificent Mid Ocean as Bermuda s banner golf re sort The Robert Trent Jones designed course Is set against a backdrop of sapphire sea With only one exception every par four or has Judiciously placed fairway bunkers BAY Wind along a peninsula which at its widest measures only COO yards Bermudas oldest course provides the golfer with a magnificent challenge to both his game and his camera The tight fairways and small narrow greens arc set in a relatively short yards And the list goes on until the reaches one golf course for every per sons Though golf in da Is played the year round the near perfect weather and course conditions In the fall winter and early spring pro vide seaside golf at its best TUCKERS TOWN Bermuda A pastime in Bermuda is playing golf which is natural simply because Ihere are nine golf courses to be found from one end of this square mile island to the other One of the most scenic as well as the toughest links to play is the MidOcean Club in Tuckers Town Here a happy foursome and two caddies move down the fairway which is flanked by palm trees and lush foliage For all your travel needs Call Rick Bonnette 8533580 IF the sea as part of the game Most of Bermudas links ore located at he side of the water Many require shots over or around it And the views of the ocean make those shots even more memorable and the hooks and slices not so bad after ail scenic but Kilty Rarely in Bermuda do you find a long wait on any tee or players pressing you from behind Nor is a sudden sound apt to distract your swing Only four of the Island a 135 golf holes parol lei a main road and Bermuda has no highways freeways or expressways Getting to Bermuda nine golf courses Just might be easier than getting to your own Flying time from Toronto is less than two and a half hours Other direct flights from major cities of Canada and the and London England as well make coming to Bermuda almost easier than coming out of the rough at Mid To point up the lity and ease of playing golf in Bermuda two Golf Magoxine editors staged what they called the Great Bermuda Golf Race On a Sunday morning theysimul set off from New York City bound for the golf course one editor headed for on Long Island the other editor for the Castle Harbour in Bermuda The race was to sec who could arrive at the course play 18 holes and then get back first to a designated New York City restaurant which sen as the finish line The editor who flew to Bermuda won by a full 19 minutes and the Race was described In the November issue Taking a brief sprint around Bermuda courses BELMONT yards par Only one par four exceeds yards The short est four is yards Elcvat and double- tiered greens blind second shots light fairways and a whole clutch of small narrow putting surfaces are part and parcel of Belmont golf MIDOCEAN Cathedral like In its awesome beauty MidOcean ranks as one of the top ten links in the world Good shots are rewarded bad shots are penalized The yards take the golfer past superb views of the Atlantic