Evening star., 1923-05-27

open for play on and after Decoration
day.
The state of Maryland recently ha
completed the pavement from IN
Conduit road to the club property.
"Never again will I even think O
losing my grip in a golf match.
thinking l have it won,'' remarked
Chris Dunphy after Roland MacKen-
Zie had thrown a scare into him in
the second round of the Columbia
tournament. The lad pulled tWo
IS in row when he was dormie
4 down and might well have car
ried the match to the final hole haG
Dunphy not laid chip shot dead q
the, seventeenth. The same remarI
was echoed by Hugh Saum yester
day, when +. j. Brennan almost
got away from him after the for
mer was 5 up at the twelfth.
Saum was looking ahead to his next
match. In the meantime Brennan
was playing golf. Saum won on the
last hole.
4 new bunker has been installed
at the left of the first fairwaY at the
Chevy Chase Club to catch the
hooked drive or the clout across
the corner of the rough that does not
reach the fairWay. Another trap
may be put in at the right of the
fairway on top of the hill overlook
ing the green.
Work already has started on the
new course of the Argyle Country
Club. near Four Corners, Md. The
course has been laid out with the
holes plotted. and the ground is to be
sown to COW peas and turned over
and seeded in grass in the fall. The
club is receiving the assistance of
IN embers of the greens sections of the
United States Golf Association in
seeding and planting its fairways and
green's.
The old course OF the club near
Georgia avenue probably will sue
cumb to the activities of the builder
within two years. The sixth green
has been usurped by a steam shovel
and streets are being plotted across
the first and ninth fairways, marking
the passing of one of the first and
most picturesque of the golf courses
about Washington.
golfers, including a delegation of
about twenty from the Colum bia
Country Club. are planning to play
in the spring tournament of the
Baltimore Country Club, which be-
gins next Thursday. c. j. Dunphy,
the District amateur champion, will
not be able to compete.
C0lumbtas new fh1r0 mole. Where
the green has been completely re-
constructed. has been made far
better hole by the change. The
green sits up in front of the player
so he can pitch his ball to the pin
with assurance. A change is to be
made in the second green, which will
make it easier to hold.
Senior golfers of the Chevy Chase
Club will compete in an eighteen hole
tournament next Tuesday. The memz
bers of the Seniors Golf Association
competed in a putting tournament at
the club last Tuesday, which was won
by Gen. George Elliott.
A putting tournament for women
of the club is to be held at Columbia
on Decoration day.
Washington golfers are looking for
ward to the annual championship
event of the Middle Atlantic Associa-
tion to be held at the Chevy Chase
Club June IA, Is and 16. Entries for
the tournament close with w. r.. Nc
Callum, executive secretary of the as
socfatfon, June IL. They should be
addressed to him at the Chevy Chase
Club. Five sixteens will qualify.
Twenty-Five public links golfers will
compete Tuesday in an eighteen-hole
medal round for the right to represent
Washington in the national public
links tournament to begin June 26
out of, the twenty only ten can quail.
ify. W. E. Tipton led the field in ths
Tuesday with card OF IL.
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