Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-11
GOLF SEASON HERE
|SCL0SE AT HAND
Washington Country Club to
Hold First Spring Tourney
May 6, 7 and 8.

With the opening of the tournament
season little more than three weeks
off. local golfers appear to be taking
less interest in the game than in
many years past. Although during a
few clear days in February there
was heavy play at some of the
courses. the same is not true now,
and just at present there are prob
ably fewer golfers playing on courses
about the National Capital than in
any spring for several years.
However, Notwithstanding the cold
weather of the past week, there is
no reason to fear that golf about the
District of Columbia will suffer a
temporary relapse, for there are too
many dyed-in-the-W wool players here
to keep away from the golf courses
when the sun begins TO shine warmly
down and the grass turns green
The Washington Golf and Country
Club will open the tournament season
about Washington with its annual
spring invitation event, to be nero
May 6. and 8. Always one OF the
most delightful and popular of the
event this season will probably be
one of the best ever held. for the
golf committee has received assur-
ances from several strong out-of-toWn
players that they will compete me
course of the Washington Golf ana
Country Club is always at It's best IN
the early months of spring, the only
drawback to a successful tournament
being the fact that sometimes there
is a day or two of rain. This was
the case last year. when a downpoar
fell during the qualifying round.
Two weeks after the event he!o oS
the Virginia club the Chevy chase
Club will hold its spring tournament.
the most popular of the many events
held about Washington rms even
always attracts select cotefle OF
prominent players and IS assured q
notchers. Cameron 3. Buxton, crack
player of the Philadelphia district.
won the event last spring. The dates
this year are May 20, q and
Two weeks later many District golf
ers will go to Richmond to play IN the
annual middle Atlantic tourname EN- 70
be held over the course OF the Coun-
try Club of Virginia June 3, ana b.
and the week following the District
championship event will be held over
the course of the Columbia Country
Club. :,
have a very busy spring, and without
doubt golf this year will have the
same prosperous season it had IN 1919
Charlie Mackall. the seventeen-year-
old son of DR.. Louis Mackall or the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
sometimes called second Bobby
Jones'" is playing a far better game
this year than ever before. accord
ing to Orrin Terry. the new pro at the
Chevy Chase Club. Terry says young
Mackall. who was a semi f1nalist in
the Chevy Chase tournament last
year. is hitting the ball with much
less effort than he showed last year
and is getting better results. With
little more tour lament experience
young Mackall should make things in
teresting for any Of the older golfers
about the District. He has an ideal
disposition and all in all is one Of the
best prospects yet developed about
Washington.
The new north and south open cham
pion Fred Mcleod of the Columbia
Country Club, will have big year
this year if his present game is to
be taken as an indication. Last Tues
day he played with Albert Mckenzie
and Donald Woodward of Columbia
and romped around a wet and soggy
course in 72-good enough to extract
a few golf balls from those. two crack
amateurs of the club.
The new public golf course in lower
Potomac Park is getting along famous
ly with the pening up of the weather.
1t can be said with truth that the
course will be one of the most inter-
esting in the District of Columbia. The
greens even now. with less than two
years care. are in very fine shape and
the fairways. which are now being
cut show a good stand of grass. Part
Of the course will be opened in May,
it has been announced.