Thanks Joe - that's basically the same article:
here is what I transcribed fm the NY TImes:
The New York Times
Published: August 15, 1915
NEW GOLF COURSE AT ISLIP
Proposed Suffolk County country Club to Build Links on Great South Bay
Invitations for membership in a proposed golf and country club, on the south side of Long Island, have been sent out by a committee composed of Henry W. Bull, Jay F. Carlisle, George A. Ellis, Jr., Bayard C. Hoppin, George Huhn, Jr., Louis Livingston, William Raynor. Simons, and Langdon K. Thorne.
It has been whispered for months that many lovers of golf who have their homes on the south side of the island were contemplating the construction of a new course. The committee chose the property owned by Harry B. Hollins, Jr. and Gerald V. Hollins, at Islip, as the best location for the links. The properties chosen comprise 120 acres of upland and meadow land, fronting the Great South Bay. In choosing this tract the committee consulted with four golf experts: Mr. Skinner, of the United States Drainage and Irrigation Company; Mr. Raynor, constructor of the National Golf Links of America; C. B. Macdonald, designer of the National Golf Links, the Piping Rock, and Lido courses; Peter lees, greenkeeper of the Mid-Surrey Golf Club in England, now in charge of turfing at the Lido Course, Long Beach.
The property chosen will have facilities for tennis, polo, shooting, fishing, boating, bathing, and horseback riding.
The golf course will have eighteen holes in a length of 6,300 yards. The distance of the hoes is given in the prospectus:
Out: No. 1 420 yards In: No. 10 316 yards
No. 2 440 yards No. 11 178 yards
No. 3 460 yards No. 12 443 yards
No. 4 160 yards No. 13 525 yards
No. 5 363 yards No. 14 415 yards
No. 6 183 yards No. 15 366 yards
No. 7 496 yards No. 16 130 yards
No. 8 325 yards No. 17 550 yards
No. 9 395 yards No. 18 405 yards
totals 3,242 yards 3,128 yards
On the western side of the property a canal will be cut, and a yacht basin will be dug close to the clubhouse. This will enable members to reach the clubhouse by boat.
It is proposed to finance the club by and issue of 1,125 shares of stock fo a par value of $200 a share. The maximum membership of the club is to be 400, but only 250 are to be enrolled at first.
The grounds of the proposed club may be reached from the South Country Road by was of Bay View Avenue, East Islip. The drive from the main highway to the cub leads through wooded roads to Great South Bay. The name of the club will be Suffolk County Country Club.
The "question" thing was a joke -
