Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
GOLF NOTES

Arrangements arc being made oy
Fred Mcleod and Jack Burgess, pro-
fessional players at the Columbia
Country Club and Chevy Chase Club.
respectively, to play In the Asheville
and north and south open tourna-
and Pinehurst, N. c., in March. Bur-
CESS had not intended visiting the
south this year, but said yesterday
that he had changed his plans and
contemplated playing in the two ma
jor events of the southern spring sea-
Mcleod includes both these events
rs part of his spring golf. The little
Scot stationed at Columbia Is going
Albert R. Mckenzie. who witnessed
remarkable round Of u made by NC
Leod at Columbia last Tuesday.
Fred's IS on the last nine holes was
one Of the best bits Of playing ne
present conditions the score could
hardly have been bettered:
Burgess played last Friday AFTER
noon with Capt, John 8. Larcombe,
tr.. and two other members OF tne
Chevy Chase Club over his own course
and was around in a score below ".
Plans for enlarging the clubhouse at
Bannockburn and for putting the
present nine holes now IN use IN oet-
in the early spring, 1t is announced.
A committee consisting of Daniel l..
Hanard, Tom Moore. John T. Harris
and George T. Cunningham, recently
went over the plans and has. accord
ing to reports, made arrangements for
an early start on the addition to the
clubhouse. The work on the course,
however, Is considered equally inn
portant and will be started as soon
as possible. Bannockburn's great
I'M
SUFFICIENT labor to work on the course.
what labor could be obtained was too
high in price and when Burgess lett
for Denver the work on the course ID
said to have slackened. However. Ban
nockburn will be amply taken ACE. care 90 %
through.
Lieut.. Commander Alva D. Bernhard:
one of the most prominent sol1ers OF
the WASHINGTON Go.i lang ano - c Washy
ington. The Lieut." as his friends can
him, was one of the most popular
PLAYERS at the Virginia club Defore
called to active service and is one OF
the few men who can claim to have
made an attempt to play golf in Rus
sia. Commander Bernhard was with
the American delegation that visited
Russia two years ago and met keren-
sky and other prominent Russians OF tne
days before the-bolshev1k reeime'
Orrin Terry, professional at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club. 10 Slowly
recovering from an attack OF innuen.a
in New York, contracted Wniie on vIs,t
to that city Terry expects to be back
in the game in the spring. He has been
suffering for more than year from
strained ligaments in the back received.
he believes, while playing In southern
tournament
Walter s. Harlan Of the Columbia
Country Club was reelected vice presl-
dent OF the United States Golf Associa-
ton at the annual meeting Iof the organ
izatfon last night in New York city. Dr
Harlan is one Of the Oldest and best In.
fprrned executives in American golf ana
probably has had as intimate relations
with the game, it's players and well
known figures as any man in America.
This has been a winter without
precedent in local golf thus far. NO
winter within the past five years mas
proved so mild, or that OF last year
proved SO severe, and In no winter OF
play SO much as in the winter OF 1919
1918, The present attitude Is that the
tconparatively mild weather will hold
good for some time and that real goir
can be played this winter. or course,
| the game differs slightly from that Of
L
allow the player to tee up his ball. are
| in force, and, in addition. the putting
greens are fast and apt to be uneven.
| These, coupled with the fact that the
bali seldom rolls more than a few feet,
make higher scores the rule. but goif
under such conditions is moro than
could have been hoped for, in the mid
die of January, by the most sanguine
player.
The regular devotees OF the game
at the local clubs do not seem to let
rainy weather interfere with their
activities, and play in all kinds of
weather and ground conditions.
| This is the time of year when 1t Ia
| the almost invariable rule to change
from the regular putting greens to
| temporary ones, but none Of the clubs
about Washington has changed Its
flags to temporary greens. The lack
Of change does not mean that the
| green's will be ruined, for no less an
authority than Walter J. Travis 10
heartily in favor Of remaining on the
regular greens all winter. Believing
that the constant churnfnG mp Of the
surface has a favorable reaction when