Evening star., 1916-10-01
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

| Golf at the Chevy Chase Club has
again reached it's normal stage with
practically all the playing members of
| the club back and frequenting the
course. Some of them are going very
| well, too. Last week Samuel DalZell,
who has been playing golf at his sum-
mer home on the st. Lawrence river,
went around the Chevy Chase course
short time ago Ashmead Fuller. who
some years. besides being fine tennis
| player, covered the Chevy Chase course
| in so and missed a wee putt on the last
green to score 79. The women are
! showing marked activity in golf cir
tion is shown by the fact that so many
| are taking lessons and practicing as
siduously.
Jack Burgess. the pro. in the limited
time he gets to play, has shown that
his lack of practice has not hurt him
| in the least. Last Thursday he played
the first nine holes in company with
four on the long eighth hole, $50 yards
in length, had a short putt for a three
on the ninth hole to obtain his 35 for
the nine. but missed the short putt.
His niblick third shot on the eighth
lay within eight inches Of the cup.
The players of the Columbia Country
Club are back on the regular greens.
There is decided improvement shown
In the appearance of the putting sur
faces. The greens are being groomed
in preparation for the invitation event
given by the club October 1921. and
the course as a whole is rapidly ap-
preaching the state of perfection which
is necessary when a club gives the
comprehensive affair which Columbia
contemplates this year. The hope that
Perry Adair and Bob Jones, the young
golf phenoms from Georgia, may come
and compete in the Columbia event has
been quickened, and it is very possi-
BILE that the fans of the Capital city
may see these youngsters in action.
Undoubtedly these two young men are
bound to be ranked high among the
coming golfers of the country, if only
on the showing they made at the re-
cent amateur championship. For a man
to qualify in his first big national
event is a great thing. but for him to
win two matches, and particularly
against the class of the men Jones had
to beat. surely speaks more than
words can tell of the quality of his
golf. Adair is not far behind. In his
first southern championship he occu-
pied the runner-up position, defeating
in his way to the ultimate round men
many years his senior. He qualified in
the western amateur championship, in
1914. well up in the list, and his latest
first thirty-two in the country, entities
him to a high place in the golfng an
nails of the country.
The Columbia tournament this wear
will be held Ooobber 19 to p. inclusive
with the qualifica ton round consuming
the entire day of the 10Th. First and
ps0ed matfh fhe Pay satg b t,s will be
finals and finals carded for the 21st All
match play rounds will be at eighteen
holes.
The tournament committee of the Co
lumbia Country Club is introducing this
year an innovation never before tried
and one which is likely to sound the
death knell Of the Saturday afternoon
handicap on the closing day of a tour
nament. In the Columbia tourney the
handicap event. which usually is played
on Saturday afternoon, clogging up the
course and interfering with the move
ments of the finalists, will be played in
conjunction with the qualification
f1cation round will be considered to be
the low medalist, and the winner of the
second gross prize receives the same
award he would have received had he
won the Saturday gross event Two
prizes will be given for first and second |
low net. No prizes will be awarded to |
any man who wins one of the handicap |
places and then fails to compete in the |
tourney.
This rule has been in effect for the |
past year under rule 10 in the etiquette
of golf, but has never been rigidly en-
forced. The new rule was added at |
the last meeting of the United States |
Golf Association and specifically forbids |
a player who has won a medal prize |
to take his trophy unless he intends to |
in the match play rounds. For
instance, the winner of the medal round |
in one of the Journeys around the Met
ropolitan district defaulted his first
match round and was awarded his |
medal This is not right |
on the face OF it, for besides. robbing
the event of it's presumably best play
er. it often jumbles up the match
rounds.
The limit in handicaps on the day of
the qualification round will be eighteen.
No matches or play of any kind ex-
cept the semi-fnals and finals will be
tober 81. The committee reserves the
right to disqualify any contestant who
is not ready to commence play at the
time assigned. The list OF pairings will
be published in the newspapers. On ac-
count of the congested condition OF
the course, the golf privileges will be
extended only to contestants, from Oc-
tober 18 to %. inclusive. Entries close
at 6 pm. Tuesday. October IT, 1916.
As announced in The Star Friday,
the Bannockburn Golf Club has recon-
sidered its determination to postpone
it's fall invitation tourney and the
event will be held on the dates Of Octo-
ber 12 to IA, inclusive. The present ,