Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-31
, Offers of the Chevy Chase
Club are to have new twelfth
mole within few weeks. A
J new green heated ahout %


mole within few weeks. A
! ~ new green, located about &c
yards behind the present green
now is being built and is expected to be
ready for play during the Fall. 1t will
raise the hole from an affair of $50
| yards to one of $40 yards. will partially
| remove the blind second shot. which
has been the bad feature of the hole
and will make the second shot mashie
Or medium iron shot instead of mashie
niblick, as it now is under the present
nard ground conditions.
No change will be made In the loca-
ton of the tees. or the bunkering for
shots from the tee. but the golf COM
mittee of the club has not yet decided
whether the cross bunker in front OF
the present green shall be removed or
cut away in the middle to give player
in the middle of the fairWay full view
of the new green. Chairman Stead OF
the golf and grounds committee hopes
the new green will be ready for play
within few weeks, as the green will be
sodded with bent from the club nur-
series as soon as the leveling and grad
ing has been completed. Sand traps
will be placed on the right and left
sides of the new green and the Ole
green will be allowed to become part
of the fairway.
Chairman McCarter Of the Indiar
Spring golf committee has offered the
colfing members OF the club chance
to get their handieaps cut. The follow.
ing notice has been posted on the cur
bulletin board: "A complete revision
of handicaps has been made in prepa'
ration for the Fall events, especiahy .mt
club championship. If you think yours
is too high, kick and get it cut down.
A score or more dental golfers from
Washington are planning to play II
the dental golf championship OF the
MARYLAND Dental Golf Association ovel
the course of the Catoctin Country CIuf
at Frederick, Md, on September 9. Be
cause of this event, the regular montnl.
tournament of the dental golfers apoul
Washington, scheduled for September
9, has been postponed to September 10
They all look alike to Bobby. Those
who know the type of game BOD Jone:
can shoot when he cuts loose are no.
surprised that he scored a 81 over tne
Pebble Beach course yesterday-a lay
out that the CalifornianS would nave
us believe is impregnable in so lar az
low scoring is concerned. we never
will forget the three consecutive OF
Jones made over the supposedly lmpsI.
vious Minikhada course in 1877 nor Tine
sub-par scoring he has INDUCED in or
other occasions. -,
There is only one Jones, ana al
courses look alike to him. We nave
had reams of publicity regarding tne
toughness of the Pebble Beach course
how no man would make monkey gu d
of it: how the course record was rs
and how hard it would be for the poy'
to score below IS. And after a 1eW
preliminary whirls over the layout, Jone:
gets around in 81. He'll pronaoly pea
that mark next week when ne oegn:
to put the pressure on. II ne gets pas.
those first twol8-holc medal play
rounds. 1t looks like. one of those per-
sonally conducted golf tours by Jones
such as have made the last two amateur
championships joke.
T Little Dave Thomson, the Washington
Golf and Country Club pro. slumpec
badly over the second round OF tn'
54-hole Virginia State open: champion.
ship at Richmond YESTERDAY. takln 81
an 80 on the second round and 7e
on the third round. which landed hin
in eighth place. r. Cliff McKimmis
of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps
Country Club redeemed himself fol
his starting sc by scoring a 78 on ms
last round of the championship, bul
was still far outside the money. Ro.
land Hancock, Lynchburg professional
who finished third in the national open
last year, continued the sensational
scoring pace that put him in the leac
in the championship from the mrs,
round, to win the title with 54-hoie
score Of pit.
Jack Lowden, assistant pro at the
Glenwood public course OF Richmond,