Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-01
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES FROM THE
LOCAL CLUBS

| Those who have been playing on the
| Columbia Country Clubs course THIS
year will hardly recognize 1t next
| year after the green committee mas
gotten through with it. as it is the in
! tention of those in charge to make
changes at almost every hole during
; the winter. In these times of progress
it seems to be the ambition of those
in charge of golf courses to make them
| sitter and the game harder The CO.
! lumbia course in its present state is
considered by many to be a pretty hard
one to play and although par is seven
ty-two. eighty is considered a good
score on it. The contemplated changes
winch are enumerated below should
make the course the hardest in Wash
| lngton and at the same time one of the
best from scientific standpoint. al
though the "duffer" will very likely
find the going rather rough.
The fairgreen of the first hole will
be widened on the left and narrowed
on the right. while trap will be built
in the left corner of the green.
A diagonal cross bunker will be built
near the second hole, while it will be
trapped on the left about eighty yards
| from the tee.
the hill to the right, about 100 yards
| from the third tee. Nothing will be
done to the fourth and fifth holes at
| this time. but trap. about $50 yards
| from the tee will be built at the right
| of the sixth hole, while another will be
| made about twelve yards to the left
of the green to cover approaches from
| the lower side.
I The traps in front of the seventh
!
/ the right of the green between it and
| the eighth tee two additional traps
will be made.
At the eighth hole a cup bunker
about ITO yards from the tee is plan
ned. Three cross traps to catch car
ries from the ninth tee will be built,
the first (righD to be about 100 yards
| from the tee. the center one to be 40
yards from the tee and that on the left
| to be $50 yards. Twenty yards to the
right of the green trap will be placed,
while another will be made at the
right far corner of the green.
| Twenty-Five yards short and to the
right Of the eleventh green will be a
trap, while the water hazard on No. Il
will be widened and a cup four feet
high thrown up alongside the branch.
The thirteenth will be trapped between
! the green and the trees on the right,
| the right corner of the fourteenth
green. The last four holes will remain
! as thew are. The changes to use up
the strip of property purchased last
year probably will not be made TINS
year. The ground will be cleared this
winter. and ultimately new fourth
green beyond the present one will be
made and other slight changes in the
| fifth and fourteenth will occur, but IT
| is not the intention of the green COM
mittee to bother with these at this
| time.
| 1t has been definitely decided by the
! tournament committee at Bannock-
burn not to hold an open tournament
this year The fact that the new course
near Cabin John bridge is not quite
ready for tournament play. together
with the further fact that army
worms have done a good deal OF dam
sible Tor the failure of the club to hold
| this popular annual event, as the old
course is not in very good condition
either.
! An "electic'' tournament is now
| icing played at Columbia. Harris N.
| Brown and Donald Woodward having
put up nrizes The event started with
eighteen noles yesterday, and another
! round will be played tomorrow, the
entrant deducting his full handicap
from his medal score, one prize going
10 the player with the lowest net score.
| and the other to the one with the best
gross figures.
John T. Harris, chairman of the green
committee of Bannockburn, returned
yesterday from months business
trip to the Ozarks. During his absence
| DR. Bruce L. Taylor was in charge of
golf affairs at the club.
The annual meeting of the Columbia
| Country Club was held Wednesday
night at which time the following Of
| ficers were unanimously elected: Presi-
| dent, Enmons S. Smith; vice president,
DIR. Walter S. Harlan: secretary. Ar
| thur B. shelton; treasurer, John Poole:
| members of board of governors for
sheridan. Harold E. Doyle, Benjamin
| woodruff and Alpheus Winter; for one
=! year term, James Baird. George p.
, James was again chosen captain of the
golf team.
| There is possibility that the matches
! between Chevy Chase and Colurnb ia
| with teams of twenty men each, which
were so popular IA few years ago, will
be revived this fall, as at the annual
meeting of the Colun bia Country Club
w ednesday evening Capt. George James
was authorized to take the matter up
! with the golf committee at Chevy
| Chase. 1t was at first thought that the
matter could be placed before the Dis
trict Golf Association and all of the
local clubs invited to send teams, but
it was finally decided that these two
clubs would very likely be the only
ones who could scare up representa-
tive teams of twenty men, SO that moth
ing would be gained in the end. Sew
eral wears ago these matches were held
frequently between Chevy Chase and
Colunl ba and they were enjoyable
that the 1ast-named club is DESTROYS of
starting them up again.
Alpheus Winter and DR.. Otis H. Wood
won an interesting foursome from
John Davidson and Harry West at Co
lumbia "Wednesday afternoon. up. 1t
was at Nassau count. Wood and Winter
being up going out and l down COM
ing in, which gave them two out of
the three points in the match.
The harvest home" cup event
which was scheduled to begin tomor-
row at Bannock burn. has been post