Evening star., 1928-10-17
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

- HANGEs of a radical character,
the first to be made in the lay
out for more than year, were
begun on the course of the
Columbia Country Club today
under the direction of Course super
visor Fits in program OF new con-
struction that will run we'll into the
Winter.
The chief change will center about
the sixteenth hole, which Will pe
changed materially from the nole II
has been for many years and the mole
that was played in the open cham
nionship of 1921. Not all the changes
will involve the sixteenth, however, Tor
the first hole will come in for its snare
of attention in a manner that is mover,
at least around Washington.
The sixteenth green is to be entirely
reconstructed made longer by an aool-
ton to the front, and the bed OF the
stream that now meanderS around III
front of the green is to be changed 10
bring the water right up to the front
of the putting surface. The green, IN
so far as it's location is concerned, VIII
remain substantially as 1t now IS, out
no one who plays it next year VIII rec
ognize the green of today. For its shape
will be changed about, the hump IN
front removed and an apron SupSVl-
tuted for the hump, while an immense
tran will be placed on the hillside at
the left.
Two new tees will be built, one OF
them we'll up on top of the hillside
back of the seventeenth tee, which Will
lengthen the hole some 80 yards and
convert it from a mashie shot OF 140
wards to long iron shot of about ITO
wards. With the creek pushed right
up to the front of the green the shot
will then become a testing long iron
instead of the light mashie shot 1t
now demands. The lower tee will re-
main in use, but a third tee will be
built halfway down the hill about 155
yards from the center of the green,
again changing the shot.
Fits has a scheme in mind for build
ing an alternate green for the first hole,
which will then have two green's cap
able of being interchanged to suit vary
ing conditions of play. No other hole
around Washington has two greens.
The new green, which he plans to build
during the early, Winter, will be To-
Gated on top of the hill above the
present green. The character OF the
hole will not be changed by the addl-
ton, and the maple tree that now con-
stitutes one of the chief hazards OF the
approach to the green will remain as
it is.
Along the slope of the hillside below
the bunkers which crown the hilltop at
the fifteenth and the valley in which
the sixteenth green lies, Fits plans to
plant a row of trees which will further
outline the fifteenth fairway and force
the play away from the sixteenth green,
where occasionally hooked balls from
the fifteenth tee endanger players on
the sixteenth green. All the changes
are expected to be completed by early
Spring and the two new greens will be
in use for play next year. The plans
have been approved by the club board
of governors.
Only two matches remained to be
played in the Liberty Cup tourney at
the Chevy Chase Club today, as the
date for the playing of the first round
expired. The second round in the
handicap event must be concluded by
next Saturday. Results of the matches
played to date follow: r. P. Whitelay
(I2). defeated A. S. w. Frailey lD,
and 8; Mai. T. H. Lowe 90, defeated
Mai. w. C. Gullian 1D, S and 4; d. D.
L. McGrew Q2), defeated George E.