Evening star., 1927-11-27
MOTHER indoor golf school is

"A this Winter. this time in the
i big sporting place at Four
tcCnth street and Park road--
the Arcadia. under the operation OF
John =. Flick.
Elicl< has become a golf enthusiast
during the past year. having joined
the Indian Spring Club. lie believes
that indoor Golf has definite place
in the sporting activities offered at
the Arcadia and has arranged for the
installation cf 4 number of nets AMI
putting course. The golf layout
will be under the supervision of X.
Cliff Mckimmie, who as an amateur
won the Middle Atlantic champion
ship, and George Diffenbaugh, an
other local profc ssional
What is the hardest two-shot hole
around Washington? \ number Uf
prominent local amateurs were dis
cussing this matter at golf tanning
bce the other day. and the almost
unanimous conclusion was reached
that two holes around the Capital
stand out for difficulty az two shot
tcrs--the fifteenth at the Washington
Golf snd Country Club and the six
teenth at Burning Tree. with the
ninth at Columbia finishing Close
third.
Although Burning Trees sixteenth
measures just under $50 yards and is
par 4, there are few golfers around
Washington who can reach the green
in two shots. WaShincton's fifteenth
measures 446 yards, according to the
score card. although the par is.-5 and
4 Is generally supposed to bee
birdie. The hole is nothing more than
drive and iron if the tee shot is
placed correctly. while Burning Trees
sixteenth is brutally long from the
back tee and deman ands extreme ac-
cufacy on the second shot, as we'll as
exceptional length.
The twelfth and eighteenth at
Indian Spring and the second at
Congressional also came in for their
share of discussion. but neither was
believed as difficult as the other two.
Columbia's ninth also takes a long
tee shot and a well placed second
shot, although in point of mere dis
tance the hole is not extremely
difficult particularly in the summer.
when the fairways are baked.
Washington's golf courses abound in
excellent one.shot holes of extreme
difficulty. demanding accuracy and
judgment in execution to secure
par 3. Outstanding examples of fine
one-shotters are the eleventh and
sixteenth at Congressional, the sew
enteenth at Indian Spring. the third
at Burning Tree the second at WASH
ington and the thirteenth at Colum-
ba. Bannocllburn also has one or
two fine onc-ShotterS.
For the second time in six years the
l. nt iny ,,Jf
the womens championship, where
next September Mrs. Miriam Burns
Horn will defend the title she wor
last year at Cherry Valley. Five
years ago the women played their
national championship at White
sulphur Springs. West Va. the
tourney marking Glenna Collects
first victory. And next year. after
four years of tournaments in the
North, the event comes South again.
to be held over the new course of
the Virginia Hot Springs Golf and
Country Club at Virginia Hot
Springs, Va.
Now that the big affairs of impor-
tant standing in the world of profess |
sional golf have been played and moth |
ing more remains of the year hut |
in Western and Southern |
events, which don't rate quite so high |
as the events in the North. it seems |
that 1927 is destined to be clasSed as |
a year when the veterans of the game |
dominated the professional side of the |
snort. Although the 2i-year-old /
Johnny Farrell won eight tourna |
ments. none of F'arrell's victories came |
in ma ior events, and he wears no i'm
portant championship crown.
Tommy Armour of Congressional |
and Walter Hagen of New York are |
the dominant lads among the profess |
sionals. Armour holds the United |
States and Canadian open champion |
ships, while Hagen GOWNS" the pro-
fessional match play title and ap- |
parently has strangle hold on the |
Western open. In none of these four |
events was a man under 25 years of |
age able to break through, and in |
golf these days n man of 25 is prob |
ably somewhat of a veteran. Nothing |
like the Sarazen rush OF 1922 has taken |
place this year. when the stcadiness
and experience of men over 30 |
thwarted the stampedinS of youth to !
the ma jor titles. Armour is 80 years |
old Some say more. hut he is just |
80. Hagen is 49, Neither is in any
sense of the word doddering old gent
of the links. but each. has behind him
a D1ckSrOuflu Ol 10 years or more Oh |
high-class competition. Both have :
been through the competitive mill for :
much more than a decade and realize |
that they don't have TO shoot birdie |
OF every hole to win.
Hagen's consistency in the r. G.. A. |
and the Western appears to be one of !
the miracles that have made the debo- |
nair New Yorker the outsta nding pro
fessional golfer of the world. Every |
year he is relegated to the competi. /
tive ash heap. tossed out of consider. |
alton. and every year he confounds his |
critics by coming through when least |
expected. Hagen hadn't done any |
thing in a big competitive way this |
year until he went out to the Western /
at Chicago In August. And he won |
there, coming with the old Hagen /
rush over the last round. He had