Evening star., 1928-03-24


~ EEKING to get away from over
worked and bare tees next sum
mer, with the grass worn OF
~ from constant play from an,
given part of the surface, the In
dian Spring Club green's committee ha'
embarked on a program of tee i'm
provement which Ii hopes will bring
the driving ground up TO the same higf
standard as the putting green's,
Major changes will not be made II
the length of any Of the holes. nor VII
the shots be changed. but the tee iIn'
provement schedule will lengthen tbs
course by about Is yards, bringing II
out TO total length of $3.50, 1t can
not be called change and the mn
provement Will not affect Miller Is
StevenSon's course record OF 81, marx
made on September q last,
The card Of the Indian Spring course
In use at present shows yardage OF
6,556. but Chairman Mccormick OF the
greens committee explains that this
yardage is from the middle Of the MD
tees. not from the back tees.
Indian Spring is hard soil course,
by any test and a score OF g. over IT
approaches the Supergon about which
we hear so much, but see so ntre-
ouently.
At the first hole a new tee is under
construction. or rather an elongation OF
the present one, 10 give five yards or 50
additional length The second tee also
is being heightened. as are the third
and fourth. and tenth. thirteenth, sew
enteenth and eighteenth. From the
back tee. which is 10 be used in the big
tournaments this year and is now being
prepared and Sodded. this splendid one
shot hole becomes fine test for the
long iron player.
The thirteenth. now a drive and
nio!ick hole. will become a little more
than that when the tee is moved as
far back toward the fence as it can be
placed, and the tee shot must be more
accurate than formerly 10 secure the
same result. In a high wind from the
back tee st the thirteenth the carry
over the cross bunker. now 100 yards
down the fairway, VIII become real
problem
The eighteenth also will become even
3 more rigorous test when the tee pl>>es
are on the rear tee. for it already de-
mands two Of the finest shots on the
entire course TO reach the green. An
addition Of 10 yards here means a lot
added 10 the second shot, for we di-
tinctly recall watching the profession
as blaze away with two wooden clubs
shots in the Middle Atlantic tourna-
ment last Fail, and few Of them got as
far as the green on this 440-yard hole.
Just now Mccormick is satisfied with
the condition of all the putting green's,
Only two give him even the slightest
concern. and these are not at all bad
the ninth and eighteenth.
The others are in frst-class shape
The eighth. in particular, has come
along IN good shape after trying Sum-
mer last year, when Mccormick feared
Il might have TO be resown. That
eighth green. during the Indian Spring
tourney last year. was one Of the fairest
pieces Of velvet turf around the Capital.
Then came hot weather and the young
grass. not deeply enough rooted. began
70 give way. But Dick Watson nurSed
it with his customary tender care, AMI
today il is as good. or looks as good. as
ever. he is certain now that the eighth
viii be the best green on the course
II so happens that the eighth hole is
the only hole on the course with blind
sho. on 1t Tin this case the tee shot).
and Mccormick is anxious 70 make it