Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-08
Interesting Golf Notes.
From the Local Clubs

The finishing touches are now being put
ION the Washington Country Club course
in preparation for it's first annual tourna-
ment, which will be held Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. The club is very anx-
ious to make this affair an eventful
one and is doing all in its power to see
that there will be not the slightest hitch
in it's management
Because there has been SO much inter-
est shown among the woman players at
the Chevy Chase Club. several wOmen's
events have been held during the past
two weeks, and they have drawn out
great numbers of the fair ones.' The
golf committee has now rated most of
the woman players. the handicaps being
against par the same as are those OF the
men. Mrs. T. K. Laughlin heads the list
ess de Chambrun and Mrs. Ormsby Nc
Cannon, with twenty-five, come next,
and Mrs. c. L. Frailey. with thirty. and
Miss Marjorie Smith. with thirty-five.
come fourth and fifth. respectively, the
limit being seventy-ffve strokes. The
committee. in many cases, had but very
little information on which to base it's fig
ures. but that they are about as good as
it is possible to make them is attested
by the fact that in all of the womens
events played SO far the scores have
been exceptionally close.
The Decoration day events at Column
bia, the results Of which have just been
players: DIR. c. II. Stearns won the
morning round at 10 holes. 1 down: E.
Lodge Hill. F. c. Pyle and Harold E.
Doyle tied for the prize in the after
noon round at Is holes, with scores Of ,
down. the play-off to occur this week: c.
{. VanLeer won the :6-hole event. when
he defeated r. Lodge Hill, after the lat
ter had tied him up at ) down.
There is considerable talk being done
at Che~v Chase with respect to changing
the holes on which handicapS are given.
Unlike most of the other clubs the mat
ter as to on what holes strokes were
to be allowed in handicapping was based
on average play for nine months. Dur
ing this period all cards were closely
scrutiniZed and strokes were given on
holes where the average showed that the
good player beat the poor one more times,
irrespective of the length of the hole,
etc. 1t is well known fact that in golf
the great difference between good and
a poor player Is in the long game, and
many of the players contend that the
question should be taken up again and
handicaps allotted according to the dis
lance between the holes and other gen.
orally accepted principles of the game.
1t is understood that In some of the
foreign countries the governing body
has designated the holes on which
strokes are to be given. SO that the same
hole On every course is the same.
At a meeting of the Bannockburn
cided to have an associate membership.
which carries with II practically all of
the privileges of the regular members.
Columbia is also taking in some as
soc;ata members and viii continue to do
he received and posted by June ~ in
order that the applicant may be eligible
for election on the Both.
Mrs Ormshy McCammon has again
been asked to play on the Philadelphia
this week in Boston with teams repre-
senting Philadelphia. New York and BOs-
ton for the Griscom cup. This event
is one OF the biggest womens events
played on the team for the past few
years but was unable to make the trip
this year and SO had to decline the
honor
Probably all have heard of holes
which have been made in one stroke but
very few have ever seen it done. This
stunt was done last year a the Wash
ington Country Club. and this year Co
lumhia PLAYER turned the trick. Fred
eric l.. Davis being the lucky one In a
match with w. o. Gilbert his drive off
the thirteenth tee hit the pin and went
in on the fly. Although the hole is a
short one and there are thousands Of
matches played on the course. another
"one'' may not be scored for several
years.
When Countess de Chambfun and Orms-
by McCammon won the mixed fours0me
at Chevy Chase last week they establish
ed new course record for the inward
trip when they negotiated the last nine
holes In 37-but a stroke over par While
the records in these cases are not very
complete, it would not be at all surpris-
ing lie they had not also created a record
for the eighteen holes. They n ad one or
two bad holes going out. the second and
fourth costing them fifteen strokes, but
they played almost perfectly on the In
ward trip. On the thirteenth hole (par
< AS yards) they did their best work.
McCammon missing putt for three.
his shot being three inches short of the
cum. AS il was, they got four. which
10 a stroke under the coveted par figures.
William C. Ballantyne. the young Co
lumbia golfer who defeated b. Warren
Corkran and other cracks and won the
middle Atlantic title. leaves for Nan
tucket for the summer. His absence will
greatly weaken the Columbia golf team.
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