Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-14
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FROM EACH ONE OF TEES
Chairman Thompson Has Accurate Measurements
Made in Connection With improvements That
Are Being Completed.

is 70 be constructed. lengtherinc the
hole few yards and making the player
drive out to the right and then play a
second shot down TO the green,
! The back tees at the fifteenth and
sixteenth are now in, and the seven
teenth will not be changed. but at the
4 finishing hole All old tee has lain unused
(, for many years--some 20 yards back of
the present tee. This is to be busted
| of. completely renovated and put back
! in use for the long hitterS who CUSTOM
/ They are likely TO find their len2thy
wallops won't so SO far up the hill from
this tee tucked back almost against the
grove OF trees behind the first green.
Golf professionals Of the city will
meet next week TO arrange schedule
! Of tournaments for the season. The
schedule has not been arranged. or at
/ least III part, because the women golfers
asked Robert T. Barnett. president of
/ the local pro body. to postpone iorlna-
ton of schedule until the women
could move toward arrangement OF their
schedule One Of the reasons. accord
! ING 10 Barnett. was that the fair sex
golfers wish to play in more mixed
! foursomcs with the professionals as
partners. an innovation that was pop
u.ar last year.
| II the women arranged their monthly
( tournament dates for Monday through
out the season. they might conflict With
the events set by the professionals.
which are usually held on Monday
Frank r. Reside of Chevy Chase Is
gathering quite reputation as
matchmaker Just few days ago Rec
side played the last nine holes OF the
Chevy Chase course with Barnett and
Ralph Beach. now connected with a
Baltimore club. Beach is one Of the
very best of the professional golfers IN
the mid-Atlantic section. The usual
dickerirg for handicaps on the tenth
tee resulted in Beach giving Reside
two bisoues on the nine Reside halved
the tenth and eleventh. took bisque
on each and stood up. He won the
twelfth and fifteenth and tucked the
match away.
Then he rubbed 1t in on Beach by
Offering him a stroke on the seven
tenth In q match over the last two
holes, and won 1t.
Barnett claims Reside has shown
greater Improvement over the past year
than any pupil under his direction
and that he may be factor in the
tournaments this year.
Dick Watson. greenkeeper at Indian
Spring, returned from a visit to his
native Scotland. Is scurrying around
the golf course with his usual dispatch.
supervising the work on the putting
greens and on the golf course general
~ TO bring the layout into top-notch
condition by early April. Watson has
been nicknamed the Flying Scotch
man" by the club members because OF
his apparent ability to be in several
places at the same time. There Is no
doubt that Indian Spring. under his
tender care, has improved very ma
terially.
J. Monro Hunter, Indian Springs
new professional golfer. is due to ar
rive in Washington with his family to-
morrow, TO Immediately take up his
duties al the Four Corners Club. He
will be introduced to the club menu
bership at smoker to be given the
evening of March 81. 'ssss
Gene Larkin. sorrel-thatched caddie
master at Indian Spring last year. IS
10 90 into the Chevy Chase golf shop
next Monday, under the supervision OF
another red-headed golf instructor.
Bob Barnett Larkin is TO be club
maker and assistant professional.