Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

I'D you ever hear of golf course
which was well on the road 10
completion on Saturday (al-
~ though not finishedD, and was
in steady play by the follow
ing Wednesday? That is what has just
been accomplished by Maj r. D. New
man, Cavalry, U. S. A.. down at Fort
Meade, Nd.
Mai Newman, who is the course
architect at the Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps Country Club, and Is sort
of godfather to Army golf courses about
the Capital, received orders from Col.
J. K. Parsons, In command al ForC
Meade, to build nine-hole golf course
through the scrub Of that nat section
of nearby Maryland.
He got together a group OF the big
Army tanks which are in use at Fort
Meade and, blowing their wav through
underground and swamp land. the
tanks carved out the courses OF the
fairways. while behind them followed
squads of doughboys armed. not with
guns and grenadeS, but with axes ana
shovels. Gradually there came into
being the outlines of rudimentary sort
of golf course.
The greens were planted to stolons
from the bent nursery at the service
club over in Virginia, which came up
quickly and formed fairly good putt
ing surface. Things went along SWIM
minely. with the course about half COM
pleted when orders came through from
Col Parsons that the course must be
ready for play within five days. There
was great activity, much rolling and
leveling and sodding, and the course
was ready within the specified period:
It now is in play-nine holes OF 1t, and
the other nine are ready for mapping
out bv airplane. which Maj. Newman
declares is the easiest way to lay out
a golf course.
Would YOU believe that niblick is
the best club to play an approach putt
with? It turned out to be the best and
probably the only practical club to use
| for DR.. L. j. Rosenthal Of Baltimore
| on the fifth green of the Annapolis
Roads course last Monday. This green,
ing green in America, is almost cut In
| two by a deep trap, on either side OF
| which the pin may be placed.
AS 1t happened, the pin was on the
| right side of the green when DR.. Rosen-
| thai played the hole, and his ball came
| to rest on the left side of the green.
There was nothing left to do but loft
the ball IS yards over the trap toward
the pin. OF course, DR.. Rosenthal was
| very CdIClQl NllOO " CuO bl1C JOIls DuI
he played the short with niblick, just
the same.
The professionals, who played the
course last Monday were very enthusi-
astic about 1t. Most of them felt, how
ever, that the tee shots are not tight
enough, that too much room Is left tc
wander about in from the tee, and that
stiffening-up process might well be
gone through with on both sides Of the
fairways.
J. Monro Hunter, the tall Scottish
pro from Indian Spring. says the sew
enth hole, which has been patterned
after the famous Road Hole at st.
Andrews, is fine golf hole, but that
It plays the opposite way from the
st. Andrews hole. The hole in Scot
land plays from right to left. while the
hole at Annapolis Roads plays from
left to right. BE that as it may. none
Of the professionals made a monkey
of the golf course, even though the
pins were in very .difhcult places to
reach.
The pros from the mid-Atlantic Sec
tor will play In q sweepstakes event
tomorrow over the Rolling Road course
at Gainesville. Md.
Robert Dougan's feat of driving a
wooden tee through the. cover OF a
golf ball, has been done least twice
before around Washington. Last Fan