The Washington times., 1922-07-19
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By BRYAN MORSE.

Indian Spring coll Cluo 4
- marks the addition of the
fourth eighteen-hole course to
Washington's quota. While CO.
lumbia, Chevy Chase, and Wash
ington are the only clubs here
abOuts that boast the full and
required number of holes there
are several in process Of con-
struction. In a year or eighteen
months at the most, Washington
will be we'll equipped with golf
ing opportunities enough to. sat
isfy the insistent demands Of the
players now crowding the courses.
The boom in the game which
promises to become the national
pastime is still keeping up.
According to present plans, the
new Congressional Country Clup.
which will have two eight-hoie
courses and a nine-hole course; the
new eighteen-hole, Burning Tree
Club course: the new Suburban
Country Club course. and the Rock
Creek public park course will be
ready to play on within a year and
half at most.
The Town and Country Club Will
move from it's present quarters on
Georgia avenue. while the Argyle
/ Club will go in on this site.
Within a short while Washington
will have ten full eighteen-hote
! courses for club members, three nine
hole courses, as well as several prl-
vate courses.
Washington, therefore. bids fair
within the span Of year ana
half at most, tO become regular
gOIfing center. As matter ot tact'
aIl-the-year- around golf here mas
nossibiiities because, with the eN-
ceptjon of a few weeks. the game
has been played practically through
ten months.
Nor are those Interested In me
clubs backward in providing the nlIn'
est class of competition for the thns'
The staging of the national open -
Columbia last summer. the repetluon
OF the affair this spring. when pran.
ticallv the. same field competed. and
the prospect OF Hagen, Sarazsn.
Herd, Mitchell. Duncan. Barnes. Nc
Leod and Kirkwood returning this
fall Is giving much in the way Ot
exhibitions.
II we are TO believe visiting golfers
from other clubs and from other
public park courses, Washington
pla yers and followers have hetter
general knowledge Of the' game ana
it's niceties than elsewhre.
II will surprise many 10 know That
this city has numbers who have
pIaved over a great many OF the
hest courses In the country. Ere
auently 1t Is remarked that Wash.
mgton's golfing army is not guilty ot
the general atrocities committed
elsewhere.
This NAV be surprising to many
public park players. hut these re-
marks have been made 40 insistently
that II is time a boost he given the
many here who are learning the
game on the public courses.
Incidentally II may he said that
the Washington golf courses offer
diversity of play not generally
found elsewhere. The character ot
the country about the city lends
itself admirably TO the construction
OF first class courses. and those
keenly interested in the game are
alive to the possibilities and have
taken adva ntage OF them in the light
OF the recent and modern golf de-
velopments.
Next week at Mount Bruno.
Montreal, Canada, the Royal Can.
adian Golf Association open cham
plonship tournament will he held.
Gene Sarazen, United States open
champion, wilt compete, The title
was won last year by Willism n.
Trovinger, Of birmingham, Mich.
The late J. Douglas Edgar won In
1890 and also In 1919, when he