Evening star., 1917-03-25

A special prize will be offered to the
professionals who are to play In the
Columbia Country Clubs invitation
tournament April 8. for competition
Monday afternoon. the day preceding
the tourney proper. Money prizes of
$25 for the lowest score, SIS for sec
ond and $40 for third best rounds have
been posted. A total exceeding 5000
has already been subscribed, assuring
the success of the event. Walter j.
Travis, the dean of American golfers,
when he was here a week ago, criticised
the Columbia course on account OF Its
lack of length, putting forward the
tremendous hitting of the leaders in
both amateur and professional ranks
as evidence that any course which has
not one or two holes over 500 yards in
length will be merely gallop for the
long drivers. Travis has had good
deal to do with the construction OF the
Columbia course, and is better prepar-
ed to criticise than any of the local
players. but the opinion seems to pre-
vail that notwithstanding its lack of
long holes. the Columbia course is so
we'll balanced that even the best play
200 yards longer. Mere distance Will
make fairly good an otherwise medi-
ocre course, but is not all that goes
into the making of flrst-class one
Columbia is so well situated with re-
gard to two-shot holes. on all of which
the greens are so vigorously trapped
that it really does require two fine
shots to get home, that length is over
balanced by the necessity for accurate
iron play. In addition to TINS the
treme back of the tees, adding about
$50 yards to the course. No tee will
not be put back. but only moved to the
side. Under conditions as they are
now. two good shots have to be NIT to
get home on this hole, as any long shot
Is virtually all carry. No. 6 tee Will be
moved back from ten to fifteen yards.
Roy Pickford had a peculiar round
at Columbia last week, scoring 81, with
a on the third hole, where he drove
into the ditch. his ball stopping on
top of a large rock. William Hoover
had freak score on the sixteenth-at
Columbia recently. His tee shot to the
side of the green, from which position
he put the ball across on the other
side of the green, almost in the creek.
He then putted out for a par 3.
The Chevy Chase Club is to have
new practice putting green. The new
green is being built between the ninth
green and the old clubhouse and will
have nine holes All the tees at Chevy
Chase are being seeded. The fairways
were seeded last week with a cutter,
which opens up the ground and deposits
the seed.
Jack Burgess, pro at the Chevy Chase
N c., had score of IT over his home
course last week, good going on the
soft ground.
to cd w
burn, amateur champion of the Dis
trict in 1915, will play for a period
this spring at Chevy Chase and prob
ably will compete in the Chevy Chase
summer home in New, London. Conn.
and has been playing the course there
for the past golf year.
The first meeting of two of the
youngsters who have been doing great
deeds in golf the past year. in fact
the only two who look like comers
at present. Norman Maxwell of Phil
adelphia and Bobby Jones of Atlanta.
the ahe ~ surprise sta prise; OF Of, the 1915 amateur
Pinehurst this week with an amateur
tournament scheduled to be played.
the north and south championship. at
present held by Phil Carter of New
the precocious pair. Maxwell or Jones,
will be dropped out in the early
rounds. but if the two meet more than
a question of sectional supremacy will
be at stake. Both have been perform
ing so we'll that predictions have been
freely made connecting amateur
championships with their names. and
the beaten youngster will not be so
greatly favored in the year to come
are all very well, but In
such a game as golf. where the ver-
dict often hangs on such small things |
as a blade of stiff grass at the side |
of the cup or a ball with too much |
run dribbling into a bunker the loser |
frequently plays very nearly as good |
q game as the victor. No master of |
the art of prognostication can well af |
come of the battle at Pinehurst. |
The course of the Kirkside Golf Club !!
is peculiarly adapted to winter golf 1t |
is probable that II Kirkside had nearly |
the large membership of some of the |
other local clubs there would be more |
winter play there than elsewhere. The |
course is laid out over rolling coun
try, is well drained and its age Is in |
its favor, as the turf Is old enough to |
absorb the water.
John A. Robinson of the Bannockburn |
Golf Club, partnered with Robert Kim
hall of the Glen Echo Club of ST. Louis, |
defeated r. e. Berger and w. s. Strick- |
land Of Chicago yesterday, 81. in a |
match played over the course of the
Columbia Country Club. the players |
being. guests Of ono Of the Columbia |
members.
The fairways at the Bannockburn
Golf Club were rolled last week for the |
first time this year. Bannockburn is !