Evening star., 1928-05-08

UlskEEE Ot COA1 a4i1
Country Club has been strug-
Cling with a problem that has
we'll nigh proven insuperable. II
IS the conundrum Of how to play a
miniature tournament on an l6-hole
course. none OF whose early or middle
holes lay near the clubhouse. Vari-
Gus expedients have been reSorted TO-
but all of them have had the unpleas
ant knack Of interfering with those who
played the full length OF the course
for miniature tournaments be II known,
are nine-Fole match play affairs. That's
why they are niiniature-the match
play rounds are only half the standard
length
No matter how the course was juggled
around and how the players started,
they always interfered with the play Of
those who we're playing the regular
round For time. miniature tourra-
msnts were abandoned a. the Wash
inEton club. with considerable regret,
for they are among the most enjoyable
Of holiday tournaments. Usually the
players qualify in flights Of eight. with
three matCh-piay rounds % follow.
But along comes o. L. VeerhoG,
chairman of special subcommittee In
charge Of strictly club events, with the
simple suggestion that all the men who
care 70 play can enter such an event.
making as many fights as are deemed
advisable 10 play, be paired al match
play according 70 club handicaps for
sorae similar SYSTEM and then 90 out
and play the regular round.
Play Only Half Way.
Here's where the catch comes. Veer-
i1of suggests that the players start
from the first tee In rotation, in two
son1es. play their nine-hole match
rounds. and al the tenth tee the win
neTs viii be paired together. The losers
can either wait for another pair of
losers 10 catch up with them and play
8 foursonae over the last nigle or they
ran wend their sorrowful way back To
the clubhouse. while the yictors con-
ti1ue on their second nif1e-nole match
play round over the second nine Of the
courSe.
II seems like quite a simple solution
of q problem that has been q vexing
one at w9ninQton. He is 10 put IL up
to Chairman Paxton Of the golf COM
n1ittee 10 see Il IL cannot be worked
CIT IN Just that way. The simplicity
and effectiveness Of the plan should
recommend IL. for II avoids the very
thing the golf committee has been
trying 70 avoid.
In addition, VeerhofF's scheme of
eliminating the qualifying round will
Ga AsAE &SN&AtE MAAl SkE lNEAsAfE DkDE
poses that all those who DO not care Ia
play IN the miniature event get started
by hzeo hour~Say 10 O'Clock Veer-
hof plans 10 pull Of The frat Of these
miniature affairs on Nay %.
Eezt Saturday his subcommittee
plans 10 nol6 q rather tricky tourna.
T0ert IN which the competitors vii
play The regular round of 10 holes
LeanT nile, me committee has been sit.
ting hack IN ne clubhouse trylng tn
f3ra1 = wag " plck winner. The eom.
naittee will ci1oose 8 ~ the 10 holes
anc the man who turns N the i9es'
gross scoye. tess half his handicap on
these nine seieclec holes will win the
tourney. lie won't Enow before he goe;
olf Wntci holes VIII be chosen, an1
therein lies tae trlck. II sounds inter.
esting perhaps even more interesting
than the kiekers tourney, which 4
popular a. seYeYai clubs around Wash.
ington.
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