Evening star., 1919-03-02

| PLANS for a radical and far-reachtng
| raa diustment of holes and the layout
Of the Bannockburn Golf Club course
| now are being drawn up. follo"ihs
| a program announced last year, "heh
| a member of the club gave the organ
| ;,.tion the sum of $4,000 TO be spent
on the clubhouse and grounds the
| greens committee has hired Roperl
White, president of the ProIessloiial
colfers' Association. to look over the
nresent layout of holes and suggest
tx,roy.meuts. Whites ideas are
L,own to be strongly at variance with
the present plan of the course ana the
oninion is held around the ciuohouse
that some radical change wiz come
- If tho recommendations made to
tho greens committee when the
nrofessionaI renders his report.
The Bannockburn Club has suffered
nora from lack of grass since its in
ceptfon five years ago than from any
81 ber cause 1t has been found ex-
ceedingly difficult to get grass to grow
and stay on the hills and slopes OF
the course, the greens III particular
having suffered from lack OF grass:
The greens committee has exhausted
every known means of growing grass
- stay on the putting greens with
small success. Part of the trouble Is
due to lack of water to properly keep
the greens wet at night and When the
grass is away from the heat OF the
summer sun and part due TO winter
washout on those greens that slope
steeply, which kills the grass. " nat
ever the cause, Bannockburn members
are determined to get at the root OF
the matter and TO make their course
second to none in Washington. 1t has
been originally planned to open lew
of the new holes during the present
summer and Whites recommendation
NAV include, such contingency, but
lit is not probable that the present year
will find the new greens being played
on.
No changes of a radical nature are
con plated by the greens commit
tee at Chevy Chase this year. Several
wears ago there was some talk OF
bunkering the green at the ninth hole,
but that was frowned upon, as 1t was
stated that it would destroy the ap-
pearanee of the lawn which stretches
| for more than 200 yards in front of
| the clubhouse There also was an
a gita ton to lessen the severity of the
apnroach to the fourteenth hole by
partially filing in the ditch guarding
| the green, but both these movements
came to nothing.
| Ont at the Washington Golf and
Country Club it is expected that play
will be possible on the new eleventh
green by the latter part of the sum-
mer. Lengthening of the hole will
not. however, raise the par of the
course, as it will still remain q two
shot hole.
| Tom Moore of Bannockburn, one of
| the coming best golfers of Washing
| ton. will leave for Pinehurst, N. G.,
| Wednesday evening for week of
| golf
| Championships and the annual tour
naments of the golf clubs about the
| District will be awarded at a meet
! ing of the District of Columbia Golf
Association tomorrow night at the
| Commercial Club. President Brown
| will preside.
| Delegates from the Washington Golf
| and Country Club have announced their
| intention of bidding for the first tourna-
meht of the year at the Virginia course,
| The dates of the tournament have not
| been settled, as they are contingent on
| the demands made for dates by the dele
| gates from the Chevy Chase Club, but
| the event probably will start May / and
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