Evening star., 1916-05-28
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

Jack Burgess. the Chevy Chase pro,
played a round over the Bannockburn
course one day last week, tying the
course record Of 81, made by the club
champion, Richard Beattie. The ninth
green is entirely made of sand and can
scarcely be pitched to. as 1t is fast and
the banks are of clay. Burgess had
two bad lies on this hole or he would
have shattered the record. His card
follows. 6-36-37
THE object of golf from now on"
says Donald Ross. will be toward an
even greater science of stroke. Deep
traps will be placed down the center, so
that the golfer must shoot either to the
right or left. To play well a man must
have wide variety of shots. More and
more will. he be forced to use his head
Is well as his hands and arms More
and more the golfer will have to have
or meet certain trouble"
But Ross makes no allowance for
those men who have neither the time
nor the ability to become proficient in
the shots which this sort of golf will
produce. The average golfer gets
around the average golf course in SO,
and II the courses are trapped to the
need of the scratch men, where do the
average men come in? If they cannot
keep out of bunkers placed at the side
of the fairway how under the sun can
they avoid them If in the center? Not
by Intentionally playing for the rough.
A fast foursome was held over the
Bannockburn course last Sunday. Will
liam Mackie and David Burgess. the
new professional, were paired against
the club champion. Richard Beattie, and
SANDY Williamson. one of the crack
The players covered the nine-hole
course four times and at the eighteenth
tee were all square. Beattie went fast
on the second eighteen holes and his
side won on the thirty-sixth green.
The Columbia Country Club is to
stage an elaborate schedule of Decora-
tion day events in which both men and
women will take part.
An eighteen-hole match play compe-
tition against par will be held for the
men all day, while 1.-THE afternoon the
women will play miniature tourna-
ment on the putting course in front of
the clubhouse. An eighteen-hole quail
hcation round will be held with 80 to
qualify in one flight. followed by the
match rounds. the winner to be known
as the putting champion of the year.
Prizes Will be awarded the winner and
runner-up' in the first flight and the
winner and runner-up in the consola :
ton sixteen for those who drop out in
the first round of match play.
Hamilton X. Kerr, the golfer, who
played so well in the recent Chevy
from New York. He is a player of
great repute, having been a semi-final-
fst in the national amateur champion
snip three years ago and having won
many events around New York and
New Hampshire. He played formerly
from the Ekanok course of New Hamp-
shire. but has transferred his allegiance
York.
been rearranged is a great deal harder
than before. One Of the visiting cracks
made the statement that the course
was not SO hard in point of natural
dlmculties as on account of distance.
The first nine has three holes of 500
yards In length or over. the third of
400 yards, the sixth of 525 yards and
the eighth of 500 yards. The last
named is a hole which places a high
premium upon hard. straight hitting. A
bunker must be carried with a good
second shot after long drive and
the pitch must be high, as the bunkers
in front Of the green are close and the
green itself Is hog-backed.
The fairway at Bannockburn is i'm
proving constantly under the care of
Burgess. the new professional. He
possesses an expert knowledge of
sreenkeeping and has done much to-
ward improving the lies through the
ting greens are coming along excel
iently The second green Is an fnnova-
tion in local golf circles. Last wear
IT was sloping affair and along in
august, when the ground was baked
hard and dry. 1t was found impossible
to make a putt stick on the slope and
1t could not be pitched to. Last fall
II was excavated and four level de-
pressions made in it leaving the major
part sloping. 1t is much better this
year. as the level spots make it DOS
s1bie to keep ball on the green. But
even now it is one of the tests of a
good putter to get the ball down in
Two from the edge of the green, as the
a deal of judgment of speed and roll
to negotiate properly.
The Washington Golf and Country
CLUB Is to stage series of events on
ner1ratl1n men3 a,i,1 !, day A miniature tourna-
qualification round at nine holes medal
play Will be played before lunch, i'm
mediately followed by the match
rounds. eight to qualify in four flights.
putting competition will be held on the
practice putting course.
Jack Burgess. the Chevy Chase pro-
fessional. and Fred Mcleod Of Column
bia played a round over the formers
course Friday afternoon. Burgess was
two up on the out nine, but the man
from Columbia gathered these holes
back and sank an eight-foot putt ON
the home green to halve the match.
The tie for low qualification score In
the Chevy Chase tourney between
Robert Weir of Wilmington and w, II.
Dun. I'd. of Pittsburgh was played Off
Friday afternoon. when the latter won
with score of 80 to his opponents 9o.
Bannockburn has built dam across
the stream In front Of No. green,
which makes a pretty hazard. The
widening Of the former hazard, how
ever. 10 only incidental to the main