Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-08-27
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES FROM
ALL THE LOCAL CLUBS

Jack Burgess Is evidently in his best
form now. for one day last week he
played the long Chevy Chase course
in IS. one stroke better than the previ-
GUS record made by ]. H de Sibour
the 18th Of June. Burgess should have
had better than IS and would have
been lower but for the fact that on the
sixteenth and seventeenth holes his
putter went back on him, and on the
eighteenth he encountered bad lie.
He came to the fifteenth tee with a
score of under an average of IS, but
finished with four 5s, which raised his
total to IS.
The score follows:
OUT. : 5 So -
The Chevy Chase course is in excel
lent condition just now. being better
favored in this regard than most OF
the courses around the city. The ma
jority of the links are baked out and.
while not so hard as in some former
years, still they have not as much
grass as the members would like. At
Chevy Chase it is different. in that the
lies through the fair green are just as
good as they are earlier in the season.
for the crab grass has attained the
enough to keep a ball off the ground
and at the same time not afford too
heavy a lie. The fair greens on some
of the holes at Chevy Chase. notably
on Nos. 6. Is. 16 and IS. have good
deal of crab grass in them, and 1t is
questionable whether this weed. which
is so obnoxious to putting greens, is
not quite as good as any other grass
for the fairway. for the ball very sell
dom nestles deep enough in it to give
fNh ha MI nd a
wooden club. and usually the ball is
fairly well teed up. The only difficulty
is the liability of cutting clean under
the ball with an iron shot.
Tomorrow Jack Burgess and John
Henry will oppose Dave Burgess and
Alva Williams in match over the
Chevy Chase course, which promises
to be battle of mighty swatters.
Fred Mcleod Of the Columbia Coun-
try Club seems to have arrived at his
true game, for Monday of this week he
shot score of ~, following it up Tues
day with 76 and Thursday morning
with 70. He claims that he is not hit
ting them right yet, but any man who
gets around the hard Columbia course
in an average better than "A is shoot
ing very fair golf, and it is not prob
able that he missed many shots. al
though in the Thursday round he had a
on the par 4, third hole. He is hitting
very long ball. as evidenced by the
fact that he got home on the sixth hole
with a short pitch after his drive. Nc
Leod has announced that he will enter
the competition for the Rodman Wanna
maker trophy, the first tourney to be
held under the jurisdiction Of the Pro-
fessional Golfers Association, and from
the way he Is going al present ought to
cut figure among the qualifiers in the
southeastern section, the part in which
the Washington golfers will play and
In which there are included some of the
best pros" in the country. Five men
are to qualify in this division, which
embraces all the territory from Will
mington south to North Carolina, and
each player who qualities gets $50. In
addition to this sum the money returns
go higher as the player nears the final
round. until. II he reaches the semi
final and is beaten there, he receives
$3.50. and II he is the runner-up in the
match play rounds, which will be play
ed on the Siwanoy course of Mount Yer
non; N. Y, he will receive $3.50 and
gold medal. while the winner of the
event will draw down $500 in cash and
diamond medal, the largest prize ever
offered to the pros" in this country.
Some Of the players of the Columbia
Country Club have been dissatisfied
with the present location and state of
the seventeenth green. The hole is a
distance of $50 yards, and Is situated
on the top of hill, with pit in front
OF the green. The green, despite the
fact that a carry of 225 yards is neces-
sary, has been driven a number of times
and, in fact, Bradley Gish. one of the
longest httters in this section, has car
ried to the far edge of the green, his
ball ending against the railroad track
beyond. Recently George P. James
drove a ball which stayed on the green
But there is no practical advantage in
attempting the carry, for very few
balls, even II they do make the green,
ever stay there and the pitch from the
bottom of the hill Is SO hard that some
of the Columbia men cannot stop the
ball. The latest idea is to raise the
upper edge of tho green so that 1t
slopes toward the player and permits
q pitch or a long ball to run up the
slope and stick.
The news that a special ruling of
the United States Golf Association per-
mits three Of the local players to COM
pete in the national besides those on
the regular list will be welcome to
golfers in general throughout the
Capital city. Sam Dalzell. Donald
Woodward and w. c. Ballantyne con-
stitute formidable trio and one which
should prove a welcome addition to the
ranks Of the local men who will attend
the big show at Merton in September.
Although none OF the local men IL con-
ceded q chance to get near to win
ming the title, there 10 always the
chance that the unexpected will hap