Evening star., 1928-03-23
OFFERS LINKSMEN PLENTY
OF VARIETY AND TROUBLE
Player, Who Visits Layout for First Time in Five
Years, Finds That II Is Very Much Different
Than on His Previous Jaunt

| though the card put the distance at
50s yards, and we know we can't hit a
golf ball that. far in two with Bobby
Jones' clubs. But anyhow, we reached
the green in two shots. nearly holed an
eagle g. and were all set up for a good
10. Struggling through the tricky,
short eleventh, we came to something
new-a hole cut through what looked
like virgin woods, down hog-backed
fairway with ample grief along both
sides
And the thirteenth was new, like
wise the fourteenth, which is a gem,
by the way. Or so we thought until
we found the real classic OF the course,
the fifteenth, par 5, almost straight
up hill, which makes Bannockburn's
second look like rocking chair, but
reeks with fine golf II can be reached
in two shots-478 yards-but they must
be good
The sixteenth looked like the old fifth,
and 1t was. But some demon had in
spired the green keeper to place the cup
on the very edge Of the green at the 1872
yard seventeenth, and what was a fair
score-to our humble thought-came
to grief
The eighteenth. we found lacking in
character, about the only hole on the
golf course which is not intensely in
| teresting. And after the finsh, we
vowed We would go back again, with
better knowledge Of the distances, and
full appreciation OF the beauty and
worth of a golf course which didn't
measure up so well in 1923, but in this
year of 1928 looms as a rough and
rugged test.
No course for golfing devotee with
weak heart and an incorrigible slice
this Rock Greek Park. The hills alone
on the second nine make 1t quite a
woods take heavy toll of the nerves
But the ensemble is very fine, and If
Rock Creek Is easy Walter Hagen is
duffer. Some day We hope AL Farr
will loosen up with that handicap. II
We get what We asked, he'll have TO
do better than wine FIVE of the last
six holes. as ne did yesterday to an
mex a match--not from us.
J. Monro Hunter has imported a lad
from Milwaukee. George Loose. a l9-
in the shop at Indian Spring this
year. Loose Is youngster, but is
quite a good golfer.
Balked nv the rainy weather and the
snow Of the last week end, John F. Nc.
Cormlck announces that the regular
green's at the Indian Spring Golf Club
are to be opened tomorrow. weather
permitting" What with Dick Watson's
assiduouS and tender care and the
nursing given the green's by McCor-
mick, the members believe they should
be in apple pie condition by the pres
ent. At least they have told McCor-
mick so. and the patient chairman of
the green's committee says he cannot
stand any longer the cry. when are
We going on the regular greens?"
So to repay partially for what he
claims Is a necessary lay-od from use
OF the green's, he has directed that q
number OF the tees be sodded and put
in flrst-class shape for the season.
The tenth tee. which has just been
opened. is a great big affair, some Is
yards and more wide-broad enough so
that 1t should never be worn out, no
matter how severe the play during the
Summer.
With the drying winds which have
swept across the local courses for sew
eral days have come light rollers press
ing down the fairways which have suf-
fered from the alternate froSts and
thaws of the Winter In the wake of
the roilers-and not far distant--is the
day when Winter rules will be slIS-