Evening star., 1927-05-29
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

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| Iuckerman now holds the title. which
Is competed for each year at 72 holes
medal play. One 1S-hole round each
| day will be played June /, 2, 3 and 4
One week from tomorrow eight local
| golfers. including two outstandine
amateurs Of Washington, will compete
| In three cities for the right to play in
the national open championship to be
played June IA, Is. and 16 at the Oak.
mont Country Club near Pittsburgh.
George j. VOigt Of Bannockburn
ana Miller B. STEVENSON of Columbia,
amateurs. will go to the Philmont
country Club of Philadelphia to play
36-hole qualifying round with Ralph
Beach OF Burning Tree, Fred Mcleod
of Columbia and Bob Barnett of
Chevy Chase, professionals. Eddie
Towns Of Indian Spring will play his
qualifying rounds at the Oakmont
Club, which has been awarded the
qualifying plum for the Pittsburgh
district. Mel Shorey of East Potomac
Park and Dave Thomson of Washing.
ton Will go to the Hermitage Club Of
Rlchmond to play in the qualifying
rounds for the Virginia distri.t.
only $50 players in all. including
81 men who finished in the first Is
III last years championship, and 10
visitors from overseas, will play in
the open championship. from q group
OF S94 entrants-the largest list the
open ever has had.
Fred Mcleod of Columbia played
the first five holes of the last nine
at Burning Tree in even 3s the other
day and picked up exactly one hole
on Guy M. Standifer, noted Columbia
amateur. Standifer is playing better
golf than ever before this Spring,
scoring down in the low 7Os.
His burst Of fine golf in the Balti-
more Country Club tournament was
the one-day sensation of the event.
He played five holes in a row, from
the ninth through the thirteenth, in
even is. Only two of the holes are
par affairs.
John f. Mccormick, chairman of
the green's committee of the Indian
Spring Club is puzzled whether to
make his course the hardest test of
the game about the city or to make
it fairly easy for the duffer to play.
Mccormick believes that to play from
the back tees makes the course so
long that most buffers cannot break
100. while if the tee plates are placed
on the from. tees it will be so easy
that the experts will burn it up" He
hasn't yet decided what to do about
it. but thinks he will place the tee
plates in the middle of the middle
tees and keep the fairways fairly wide.
AT best Indian Spring is one of the
most rugged tests of the game about
the Capital.
AT last one golf match in the first
flight Friday at Indian Spring was
won by stymie--that in which A. L.
Houghton of Manor laid N. B. Frost of
the home club "a dead stymie on the
last green when Frost had 3-foot
putt to carry the match to the nine.
teenth. HoughtOn was down most of
the way, but pulled the match out by
a plucky finish.
Unusual interest was attached to
the match Friday at Indian Spring, |
which brought together two youthful |
brothers in the first rOund--Richard |
and Roger Peacock. sons of Harry |
&. Peacock of the Argyle COun- |
try Club. The boys qualified in the
second flight and the luck of the |
draw threw them together. No quar- !
ter was shown in their match, and |
both tried hard to win. but Roger was |
to win the seventeenth. Roger squared |
with fine recovery shot from a trap |
at the eighteenth, but lost on the extra |
hole when Dick got par 4. Both |
the Youngsters play fine golf and with |
a little more experience and practice |
should do well in future tournaments. |
The In'One secured by w. B. Curtiss,
jr., on Indian Spring on the sixth hole
OF match Friday with Maj. E. e. I,
Harmon of Congressional was the |
first ace scored by a tournament play I
or about Washington in several years.
The tenth hole at Chevy Chase was
noled in one from the tee three or
four years ago during the annual
spring event. The unusual feat didn't
nakek any difference in the Curtiss-
Harmon match, as the Congressional
player won, and 2. ~
Chairman Mccormick of the Indian
Spring green's committee has decided
to take the hump out of the eigh-
teenth green and with the dirt from
the hump fill mp the hollow in the
tenth green. He believes the change
will improve both greens. j