Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12

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" Dam Country Club nine holes
of golf, now the second nine
Of the regular Is holes of the club,
which is second to none around Wash
ington. One of the longest nine-hole
layoutS of any about the Capital, the
course, even in its now unfinished con-
dition, shapes up as well as any nine
we have seen hereabout. We had the
pleasure of playing it in company of
two members of the club, who struggled
and fused like everyone else with the
tree bordered holes laid down through
the woods and the intricacies of the
architecture of Ieoffler's pet.
Behind us came G.. w. McCarter,
chairman of the golf committee at In
dian Spring, who was 2 under par
for the first two holes of the first nine,
but encountered difficulty on the sixth
hole to take a form fitting 8 when
his ball struck a tree, and thereafter
went out to sea.
The first nine Of the regular 18-hole
layout is good. but the last nine is a
"wow" Nothing but rigid adherence
to the straight and narrow path to
the hole will reward the man who eX-
poets to shoot par for the layout, for
all the fairWayS, witt only three eXcep-
tions. have been cut through the woods
And the underground has not been
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the line the player who finds his pellet
is lucky. If he can play it he is luckier.
Is a Tight" Course.
The course, in the parlance of the
golfer is tight" That is to say, the
ball must be kept straight and the
greens are so constructed that they
must be approached from the right
angle or not at ALL
Leoff1er has built such dainty little
par as as the TENTH 449 yards, which
requires two real pokes with the wood
to get up. The hole is only a yard
short of being par 5. But touch of
genius shows itself in the construction
of the eleventh hole, where bordering
woods and the slope of a hill have been
cleverly utilized to make a bang-up dog
leg hole that requires unerring accuracy
from the tee if the green is to be open
ed up for the second shot, which should
be a pitch.
With the hard ground of Midsummer,
the ditch which crosses the fairWay at
the twelfth may be reached from the
tee, but normally the hole plays with
drive and light iron and the ditch can
hardly be reached except by the longest
OF hitters. The green has two levels
and is amply large
Like the two preceding holes the
thirteenth goes down and up between
rows of bordering trees, where a slice
or hook usually results in a lost ball.
A ditch crosses the fairway, about 100
yards from the tee, and is sure to be
poison to the moderate hitter, for his
good ball will just about reach the
hazard. The long hitter should have
no great trouble in getting past this
hazard, but the ditch. quite apparent
ly, is meant to make a three-shotter
of the hole, although two good pokeS
with the wood will reach the green,
sitting up on top of hill
The fourteenth is a par one-shotter,
which takes a stiff poke with the
maShie to a green shaped like a kidney
beam with long trap cutting in from
the left. which must be carried to reach
the hole.
Fine Dog-Ieg Hole.
The fifteenth is another very fine
dog-leg hole of 367 yards, where a good
tee shot will leave pitch over ditch
to a large green lying in hollow. But
here again the woods thrust their ugly
suggestive heads up into the magma
ton as the player strives to keep his
ball in the middle.
The sixteenth is another hole that
may be reached in 2 by the long hit
ter. although its distance of AL yards
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the third shot is intended to be played
to a green almost entirely surrounded
by traps. set up on hill overlooked by
an air mail beacon.
Leofler's architects have again clev-
erly utilized the natural slope Of the
ground, augmented by serpentine-
shaped trap, to make the seventeenth
a hole of great difficulty. This hole is
a par affair of 218 yards. and takes
a firmly and accurately hit iron or
spoon shot to reach the green.
Play to the eighteenth. $50 yards. Is
over a hill which makes the tee shot
a blind affair. down long slope, at the
bottom of which is another OF the in
cvitable water bitches. and up to
green in front of the clubhouse.
That new nine. even though IT. was
placed in play only month and half
ago. and has been under construction
less than a year. has putting greens
that are up to the standard of the
others at Beaver Dam. And all the
other green's are exceptionally fine.
At Beaver Dam. we are informed. the
club members will lay a small wager
that the first time around the new
nine no player unless he be an expert,
car break As. It seems like good bet,
for those tree-bordered fairways are
rank poison to any one who has the
slightest inclination to be off the line.
The 18-hole layout makes an excep-
tfonallv fine test of the game, and
places Beaver Dam Oh par, as far as
golf facilities are concerned, with the
most difficult layouts around the Capt.
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