Evening star., 1922-12-24

next summer. probably late III June
Improvements are needed at the
public course to bring II up TO
standard. and no effort will be spared
this winter and next spring to make
I What ii should be as the scene OF
-hc second annual public links cham
pionship. The eyes of the golfing
world will be focused on Washington
and its public course BY the tourna-
ment, as the young players who COM
pete probably will constitute the
finest group outside, the actual sec
1ional and national titleholders and
ex-champions in this country; Eddie
Held Of St. Louis. the public links
champion, Is among the topnotchers
Of the game at the age of nineteen
and should make 4 name for himself
George Aulbach of Boston. who play
I'd so we'll in the tourney held at To
ledo this year. has turned profes
sional and will not be in the 1928
event.
Ottawa Park. where the event was
held last summer. is one of the lead
ne courses Of the country and prov
ID Il fitting place for the first public
links tourney. Il is strictly up to
Washington to offer the public links
players as fine a test of golf as did
ottawa Park and to justify the award
20 the capital. As to that. it is as
bring the entire eighteen holes at
Potomac Park up to championship
standard and to have a tourney of
which the capital may well be proud.
The annual pilgrimage of Wash
i7ston amateurs and professional
golfers to the south probably will
not begin until about January Is,
when the season in Dixieland gets
we'll under way. Fred Mcleod, the
through the south this winter. play
ing in various tournaments. and prob
ably several Columbia amateurs will
also go. +. T. Mclean ard Leo
Diegel will play in the southland.
Two new holes, which. for the pres
ent, proba bly, will not be used, are
being built at the Argyle Country
''lub, under the direction of William
=. Prendable. the club professional.
ne fifth and the seventh greens, and
will be on the short side.
The Washington Golf and Country
Club Is being given a really thorough
Job Of reconstruction. The bunkers
being put in by the contractors will
make the course a great deal harder
than ever before, and will make nee
"ssary some really long carries for
rhe better players.
The bunkers are being placed with
great care. however. so that the
shorter player may find a way around
rhen, and not ruin his score or his
disposition by continually playing out
of traps Two bunkers are being
added at the right of the fairway at
Che sixteenth to obviate the necessity
Of having out-of-bound posts on this
tole. The contractors figure that the
bunkers will catch any sliced shots.
and will make unnecessary an out-of-
Sounds ground rule.
.Brick- Wood, the caddie master at
Washington, is looking forward to
date in February when he will be-
come the proud possessor OF set of
genuine Stewart iron clubs. now
rarely found in this country. The
clubs are to be brought back to
Washington by Dave Thompson, pro-
;essional at the Virginia club. who is
in Scotland on n visit to his parents.
Wood. already a good player, figures
he should break par next summer
with the new clubs on nearly every
trip around the Washington course.
sixning Of Francis A. James as
course supervisor at the Chevy Chase
Club marks a new departure in greens
keeping at clubs about the capital.
chevy Chase is the first club about
Washington to have a professional
Sreenskeeper in charge Of and re-
.ponsible for the condition of the
course. james also will be in charge
Of whatever additional construction
work is done, including building of
several new bunkers contemplated In
The plans laid down by the firm OF
Colt, Mackenzie & Alison.