Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06
CLUB WILL CLOSE
LISTS WEDNESDAY
Women to Play for Evening
Star Cup at Chevy Chase
Links Tomorrow.

~ FFICIAIS of the Annapolis
Roads Golf Club. where the
next big golf tournament near
~ the Capital is to be held next
Saturday and Sunday, an
nounced yesterday that entries for the
tourney will close next Wednesday and
that pairings for the first round viii
be r:ade at once. The tourney will be
36-hole, medal-play affair. and will be
the first of a series Of su- h affairs to be
held annually over the great golf course
on the shore of Chesapeake Bay, at the
mouth of the Severn. The event is TO be
strictly an invitation affair, with not
more than rs or 80 entrants, about half
of whom will be from Washington clubs:
Col. Charles DENLY. a prominent
member of the Annapolis club has
donated handsome trophy which WI
go to the winner of the low net for the
Sc holes of play. Other net and gross
prizes will be presented. along with
prizes for the most pars and the most
brides in the two days Of play.
Next Wednesday will start the club
championship of the Columbia Country
Club, which takes on almost all the
proportions of an invitation tourna-
ment. In a total membership OF nearly
1000 Columbia has $50 golf1ng mem
bers who have been given handicap
ratings. Many Of these will play In
the tournament, which will have six
flights. with the main trophy the cup,
donated by Edward B. Mclean. The
tourney will conclude on Saturday with
a dinner at the clubhouse.
Tomorrow woman golfers about
Washington are to start play In the
36-hole, medal-play handicap event for
The Evening Star Cup. open to all
women golfers about the Capital, regard
less of club Affiliations. This tourney
will be played at the Chevy Chase
Club, under the auspices OF the Wom-
ems District Golf Association. with IL
holes scheduled each day, the cup to go
to the golfer with the low net for the
two days of play. 1t was won last
year by Winifred Faunce Of the Manor
Club.
Work already has begun at Columbia
in the REINFORCEMENT program out
lined by the green's committee earlier
in the season. New tees for the tenth
and twelfth holes now are under con-
struction and as soon as play slackens
work will begin on construction OF the
new ninth green. The new first green
is nearing completion and both 1t and
the new ninth will be opened for play
In the Spring.
Out at Washington discussion con-
tinues regarding the location Of the
sixteenth green and the seventeenth tee.
The Tee. official club publication, has
the following to say regarding the pro-
posed changes:
For the next step in course improve
ment serious consideration may be
given to changes that have been dis
cusSed off and on for some time. The
seventeenth tee is not particularly well
placed. 1t is decidedly TO the left side
Of the seventeenth fairway. so that
shot straight down the fairway flies dam
gerously close to the trees and 1t IS
tucked between the seventeenth and
eighteenth greens so that approach
shots to both grens. hit OF line. fall
onto or close to it.
THE hill that rises back of the six
tenth green would make an excellent
location for tee for the seventeenth
hole. A long. narrow teeing ground
could be built out from the upper slope
of the hill. frightening the hole and
providing front and back tees.
Locating the seventeenth tee on the
hill would require a new location for the
sixteenth green. A new green could be
constructed to the east of the present
green, in one of the hollows now oc-
cupied by apple trees. 1t would make
the sixteenth practically straight hole,
but would add perhaps 20 yards to its
length and would eliminate none Of the
present hazards. Very little grading
WOulO Ue EcQuUcu III 1IoLlI VI LIlC green
Furthermore, the new green could
be constructed without interfering in
any way with play on the sixteenth hole
| as it now is, the construction of the
new green preceding, OF course. the
| building of a new seventeenth tee"
| Dave Thomson, the Washington club
professional, is now esconced in his new
| golf shop and salesroom. adjacent to
the locker room, and the old golf shop
and caddie house has been torn down.
A caddie shelter has been built under
the hill on the first fairway.
| Women golfers will start play at the
Chevy Chase Club for the Sheridan