Evening star., 1915-06-20
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

Rannockburn has announced its July
program. 1t will call for two tourna
ments-a holiday event to take in July
4, and the regular monthly tourney
According to present plans a qualifica-
ton round at II holes will be played
the afternoon OF July 3, to be follow
ed by match play July 5. In this holi-
day event the players will be classed
in flights of eight, and will play
rounds of nine holes at match play, the
whole thing to be completed by s.
O'Clock on that day. In addition to
using the medal score of July for
the Independence day event, il also
will be considered the qualifica tion
mark for the July tournament which
Will begin the following Saturday,
July 10. In this event. the regular plan
of flights of sixteen will be followed.
Prizes will be offered for the low quail
flying score. and for the winners and
runner-up in each flight and the win
ner of the consultations in both tourna-
ments.
Columbia players are having a great
deal of trouble lately in playing the
NTH hole; due to changes now being
made there. A new green is being
made to the west of this hole and the
ground alongside of the fence which
now plowed up and considered ''out
of bounds.
The new Kirkside Golf Club has de-
cided not to engage a regular profess
sional this season, but plans to put the
club in the hands of caretaker andl
to have the course kept In order byt
contract with some one who has had
previous experience in the care of golf
courses. The club does not expect to
rr1y
icapped by late start and it will take
it several months to get it's members
In line and work out an organization
scheme. Applications are being re-
ceiyed daily and the membership list
is swelling at a great rate. Those be-
hind the movement are highly elated
and believe the club will soon be in a
position to rank with the other smaller
clubs of the city.
Washington Country Club golfers
were given something to talk about
last week when Ralph Smith made the
twelfth hole in one stroke. This is a
par hole. $50 yards in length. Al
though many use an iron on this hole
Smith used wooden club, the bali
dropping about twenty yards from the
hole and not on line with 1t, but
kicking in. Smith was playing with
Douglas Fairbanks. the well known
actor at the time. Fairbanks Is a
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up very good game. Although the
sixteenth hole the Washington
course has been made in q single
stroke not even the oldest inhabitant"|
can remember of any one else having
done the stunt at No. ~. and so Smiths
mark will go on the books record
Last year Jack" Snow holed No 16
,l20 Yards, par - in one stroke, and
IN. year bef5re that the same stunt
vas done by Prof. G. V. Piper. These
three cases are the only ones on recorS
at the w c. c. in recent years where
this trick has been done.
Walter Harlan, chairman of the
green committee at Columbia, was an
interested spectator at the open cham
piopship event at Baltusrol last week
He expected to return tomorrow. While
there Harlan planned personally to in
.ite some of the big amateurs to
ONE to Columbia this fall and com
pete III it's annual invitation event
liarban is very anxious to get the ma
tlonal champion. Francis Ouimet,