Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-18
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

The statement made in this column
last Sunday to the effect that the
Chevy Chase Club was seriously think
ing of adding an additional nine holes
to its course has caused a great deal
of comment among the golfers of that
club, as the fact that the board of
governors was contemplating a move
of this kind was not generally known.
Details of the proposed scheme have
now been given out, and the idea
seems to have taken we'll with the
members, all of whom realize that
change of some sort would be desira-
BILE Chevy Chase and, in fact, all the
local clubs find that the game has
grown so popular that Saturdays. Sun
days and holidays SO many come out
to play that it sometimes takes play
ers an hour and half or two hours
finally does come around the course is
SO congested that play is necessarily
slow, and the edge is taken off of their
golf appetite A proposition mas been
submitted to the board of governors
whereby, without much additional ex-
pense, three nine-hole courses, each of
which will start and end at the club
house, can be laid out on the present
| these nine-hole courses will start at
the present third and sixth holes and
end at the fifth and second. respective
| ly. These two sets will make up the
regular eighteen-hole course of the
club. and will be the same length as
the present course, with the same par.
| The third set Of nine holes will start
| at the present No. l and end at the
present eighteenth This round will
| be a much easier one than either of
the other two. and it is the idea of the
club. If the change is made. to turn
this one over to the ladies and to all
| of those players handicapped above
certain mark not yet decided upon
Plans have been made by the board to
have the course surveyed again and
mapped so as to show the proposed
changes, and the matter then Will be
taken up and acted upon.
Richard Beattie won the champion
ship of the Bannockburn Golf Club
last Monday afternoon, when he de-
feated Walter l. Travers in the final
ment The match was certainly pref
ty one, honors being evenly divided
until the eleventh hole was reached.
where Beattie struck an unbeatable
gait for three holes, taking them In
only nine strokes-two strokes better
than par. Travers got good start
going out, halving No. 1 with a par 4,
winning No. 2, and halv1ng No. with
another 4, but he finished l down at
the turn. When he evened the match
by taking the tenth his friends felt
that he would hold his opponent safe
the rest of the match. His loss of the
eleventh was not particularly d1scour-
aging, but Beattie did not stop there,
as he captured the twelfth with a 2.
this hole being a fiat 200 yards uphill,
with par at g. He followed this with
a on the thirteenth, 14s yards. par 8,
and a par on No. IA, $40 yards, none
any chance to recover This made
Beattie dormie 4. and when Travers
lost the sixteenth. after having won
No. IS. the battle ended with the
Scotchman up and 2. In order to
turn in their scores in the seventy-two-
hole medal play event now being played
at the club, the contestants played the
bye holes, and the cards were as
follows:
Beattie-
p Out .: :.: So 3 s4s rs
Sss .: ::ttss sss7t IL,
Thomas C. White Of the Whining
ton. N. c.. Country Club. and r:
Club were the guests of George P.
James at Columbia last Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday, and played golf
practically the whole time they were
with the Columbia course. and were
loud in their praises of it.
George T. Cunningham, captain of
the Bannockburn golf team, is recov-
ering from an operation, and will be
removed from the hospital this week.
AS SOON as he Is strong enough to
travel he will go to Quebec, Canada,
for trip of six weeks or more to re-
cuperate.
A few years ago one of the most
popular events held at the various
clubs was the goat" tournament. 1t
lasted all summer and at the end of
the season the player who had captur-
ed the most goats" was declared theI
"goatherd" and given an appropriate
prize For some reason these goat"
tournaments were discontinued. Now
many of the prominent clubs of the
country have hit upon another similar
novel event which takes in every men,
Der of the clubs. A qualification round
is played and the sixteen qualifying are
called saints" all the other members
Of the club being sinners" A member
does not have to remain a sinner"
very long If he is a good player, for he
is privileged to challenge any saint"
for an eighteen-hole match, and the
latter, according to the rules of the
Iavent Ynuat acceDt hA bAcOmeR