Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-31
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

Bannockburn club moved from its
course near Chevy Chase Circle to Its
present plant at Cabin John Bridge. it
was thought that the course could be
gotten in shape in time for a fall tour
nament and October Z, and were
tentatively selected as the dates. The
tournament committee has been put
ting the dates forward from week to
week in the hope that 1t would be
possible to hold the clubs usual open
event this year, but has finally decid-
| ed that it would be inadvhsable to
schedule an event at this time and so
the project has been dropped and will
| not be taken up until next spring, when
the 1916 season opens. Although the
Bannockburn course Is but a nine-hole
I one, its yearly Journeys have always
been enjoyable ones and this years
| event will be greatly missed by golfers
! of all of the local organizations.
Much interest Is being shown at
Chevy Chase in the "F. Oden Horst
mann Memorial event, which will be
played Wednesday and Thursday. This
is for a cup presented to the club by
| MIR. Horstmann sisters, Mrs. Bolt and
Mrs. Small. which cup must be won
three times before becoming the per-
manent property of the winner. The
event is at seventy-two holes, medal
play, and the winner generally is con,
coded the club championship for the
year, as the event is scra tch. The tro-
ply was first put up in 1913 when VOL
| colt Tuckerman, with a score of 321,
won. while last year Frank Ellis. with
| 1922, took top honors. The schedules
call for thirty-six holes on each day
! eighteen in both morning and after
noon. AS the event is scratch, q great
many of the players of the club will
not enter, but the golf committee re-
ports that most of the low handicap
| men have sent in their names and in
dications are that this years event will
years. Sam Dalzell, Walter Tuckerman
and several others at Chevy Chase, now
are playing exceptional games and it
is generally conceded that the winning
score in this weeks event will be sew
eral strokes better than those which
won in 1913 and 1914. The lowest of
| these, 321, is twenty-nine strokes over
par and an average of a fraction over
eighty, and there are several at the
club who are going better than this
now.
Local golfers in general will be I'm
terested to learn that the Kirkside
corporated and has taken over the
: course formerly used by the Bannock-
burn Golf Club, has been made a mem
Der of the United States Golf Associa-
ton. Although majority of it's mem
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time the club is showing a great deal
of activity and it will not be long be-
fore 1t will be able to hold it's own
with the other local clubs if it con-
has in the past.
Last fall the Columbia Country
Club decided to hold an event for the
with this year, and it was planned to
put UP trophy which was to be
played for until it was won three times
by the same player, when it would be-
come his permanent property. The
event was to be scratch-similar to the
Horstmann memorial event held an
nually at Chevy Chase. There have
been SO many tournaments held there
this year. however, that it has been
decided not to start an event of this
KIND until next season..
The tournament committee at Ban
noekburn and squirrel making its
nome on the club grounds have new
and rather difficult nuts to crack. The
other day a squirrel scampered down a
tree when a golf ball approached,
grabbed the gutta percha and rushed
back to it's nest happy in the belief
that an additional nut had been found
to tide him over the winter The
tournament committee is 'stumped" and
does not know what to do. 1t has been
suggested rather facetiously by one
member that the player whose ball
was taken be given the option OF
either climbing tn" tree and playing
out or OF being lowed to bend the
tree over ard shake the ball out. The
committee is opp sed to shooting the
squirrel, an innocent offender, and has
suggested that Sam Purvis, the pro-
fessional station his bird dog at the
spot to keep the little animal up the
doesn't relish the idea of spelling Il
bird dog by teaching him to hunt
squirrels An occurrence of this kind
Is rather rare. however, and the COM
any action at this time, but if it hap
pens again. Mr.. Squirrel had better
watch out.
Chevy Chase Club toward arranging it's
course so as to provide for an addi-
tional nine holes was taken "Wednesday
when markers in the form OF small
SO as to give the members an idea of
what is being planned. Every hole
and tee is now marked for the entire
twenty-seven holes. The actual change
cannot be made, however, for some
time .as seven additional green's and
tees will be necessary. According to
the present plans, the present ninth
green is to be moved about forty
yards south so as to avoid congestion,
and three nine-hole courses will he
used. The north nine will be more
open and less trapped than the others
and will be turned over to the woman
players and to those rated above a GER
tain mark. This course will be made
up follows:
No. 1-Present No. About $50 yards
No. New hole. using No. II
green .............. Abort 100 yards
No. 3-Present No. I........... About 43O yards
No. New ........... About 800 yards
No. 5-New. down valley to-
ward 18th tee. About 1s0 yards
No. G-Neg, up hill over knoll
with small trees on II. About 200 yards
No. New, running back to
double green new to
be made under present
tee for new long
hole About 300 yards
No S-Fairgreen of new long
hole to new green at
Of grove. About 400 yards
No. 9-Present No. Is. About 800 yards
Total Observation-Disclosures About .. 40 yards
The regular eighteen-hole course will
be made up of the south and middle
mines, as follows:
SOUTH LINE.
No. .1-Present No. b.. About las yards
No. present No. 4. About 4s6 yards
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