Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-31
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS

are regular players At Chevy Chase.
Even with the snow which has COW
these two golfers have been out fire.
Quently.
Grantland Rice. the famous golf
decided not to write any more post.
mortem notices regarding the deaths of
professional golfers. Rice had a. full
page obituary on the reported death
Of James Braid in the current R,ca Issue 81
we see. where Willie Smith. three
times open champion and one OF our
greatest golfers. is dead But after the
Braid episode we have decided to re-
fratn from indulgipg In postmortems
attached to the professional end of
golf. however worthy the departed one
might have BEEN"
Tho committee bulletin of the Ameri-
can Goifng Society in London. just re-
ceived. has on its front page SPLENDID
picture depicting a scene at the Lon
don Golf Club. wherein Mrs. c. w. Earle
Is presenting the ambassadors cup to
William Fl. Utz, the winner Of the flag
day tournament. MIR. Utz is brother
Of Thomas Utz of this city. and lille
on recent visit here played over the
Columbian Country Gu! course. hich
have In England. AR. UtZ is native OF
Union bridge, Md. and is the London
representative OF one of the la gest
manufacturing firms in this country.
Boston golfers seem to believe that
the 1917 national open championship
will be played on the Brae Burn CO Ise.
1t Is virtually certain that Sha Anee will
be selected for the womens event, and
that the national amateur will go to
Oakmont. and in that case. in order that
Pennsylvania will not get all the cham
pionships. 1t is likely that the pros
i'll play in London neat year. Boston
has not had mems national eve I sln.e
1913, when Francis Ouimet defeated
vardon and Ray in the play-off at the
Brookline Country Clue.
At a meeting of the Town and Coun-
try, Club formerly the Washington
Suburban Club. Harry Kaufman as
reelected chairman of the greens COM
mittee. Milton King and Mark Lans.
burEh are the associate members OF
the committee.
The Columbia Country Club probably
will have an entirely new fifth mole
next season with an increased length
to approximately 500 yards. Ihe e. cth ho
present tee extending west about sixty
feet and intends to use 1t, placing the
new tee directly west OF the spring 10
the left Of the fourth green: Inc I'm,
front of the present fifth tee almost
useless except to catch a badly sliced
short ball. AS the hole stands now
corner Of the fence juts out s and a
over this fence. Under the new ar
rangement the player will have an
out of bounds fence to his left all the
way to tho green.
Fred Mcleod. Emmons Smith and
W. ]. Hughes. IT., played over the
Columbia course Tuesday, notwtth-
and 1 lee still on a good many of the
greens. The scores were not GOOD as
accurate putting was Impossible.
Hughes pitched his mashie second tour
feet from the pin on the seventh green
and sank the putt for 8. Mcleod
missing one of equal distance. Hughes
then followed It up with par on
the eighth hole.
It is doubtful whether Z. G. Colt and
%. J. DeMoll will accompany the
Columbia Country Club players who
leave for Belleair. Fla, January IL,
owing to press of business
Carl Anderson. professional at the
Shenecossett Country Club, VIII visit
Fred Mcleod at Columbia tomorrow
and play over the Columbia course with
the home pro and Jack Burgess. wealth
er conditions permitting. Bob McDon-
aid of Buffalo and Jack Hutchinson OF
Allegheny will come here later In the
month.
Howard Beckett, professional at the
Washington Golf and Country Club, is
in Richmond. Va, for the holidays.
Owing to its hilly character snow stays
on the Virginia clubs course longer
than on most of those about Wash
ington.
Waldo F. Pearce and E. ]. Doyle
played a match against c. E. FELTON,
and c. Il. Keefer at the Bannockburn
Golf Club last week in which ten holes
were halved. At the ninth the players
were all square. and the Fulton keefer
combination came to the last hole up,
but lost it. squaring the match.
A story is told of the remarkable
shots sometimes made by great golfers
The present tale concerns the British
triumvirate Braid, Vardon. Massey and
Sandy Herd were playing four-bailer
at ST Andrews. At one of the holes.
800 yards in length, Braid laid his tee
shot twenty feet short of the pin,
Massey was six feet away, .Vardon on
the lower edge of the green, and Herd
holed out from the tee.