Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
A EMBERS of the Middle Atlantic
n Greenkeepers' Association -
that wtdeawake organization

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whose members are responsible
for the upkeep of the golf courses in
this sector of the country-plans to ex-
tend its activities to foreign fields next
month. The Midatlantic greenkeepers
have accepted an invitation extended by
the Philadelphia green's section to go to
the Quaker City, play golf and inspect
number of courses about Philadelphia,
among them the famous championship
layout of the Merton Cricket Club,
where the amateur championship will
be played late in the Summer. The
members of the local association, which
is headed by Bob Scott of the Baltimore
Country Club, plans to go further than
an inspection of the Philadelphia
courses. They dropped a hint that
team match over one of the Phila-
delphia courses might bring out some
golf and that it would prove an inter-
esting event, and the suggestion was
promptly taken up by the Philadelphia
men. with the result that the green
keepers of Washington and Baltimore
clubs will go to Philadelphia early IN
May.
That iniouitous foe of good putting
qreens-brown patch-already is being
guarded against at Chevy Chase and
indian Spring, where Dick Watson has
started spraying the green's with So
luton which helped last year in neu-
tralizing the spread of brown patch.
The course of the Washington Golf
and Country Club, where the initial
invitation tournament of the season is
TO be held on April 30. 80, May and 2,
is one of those surprising layouts Wh1ch
NAV be in only fair condition one day
and three days later be in the very pink.
That is Just what has happened at
washington within the past few days.
Last week the layout was only in fair
shape. Putting green's had not been
rolled more than twice and were m
clined to be bunny. Pathways mad NOT
been cut and the grass was high: But
almost overnight came change.
Course Supt. Whaley's men left of
cleaning up the rough and doing odd
Jobs about the course and devoted
themselves to improving fairways and
greens, and today the Washington
course is in top-notch shape.
A big tournament could be held over
the course tomorrow and no player
could find complaint with its condl-
ton. 1t is so good, in fact, that VIM
ter rules could be abandoned right now
and no harm would come. In fact,
few of the members, wishing to get
away from teeing the ball in the fair
ways. already have started playing
Summer rules.
About the only work that remains
now to bring the course in line with
its usual fine shape at tournament time
is rolling and cutting the tees. and f1ll-
ing in the washes on the hillsides made
by rushing waters during the Winter
and by the rains of recent weeks.
Woman golfers of the Army. Navy
and Marine Corps Country Club are to
compete tomorrow in medal play han
dicap tournament, the second of the
series of events arranged by the wom-
ans committee, which is headed by Mrs.
B. T. Merchant. Tournaments are
scheduled each Thursday.
Most of the fair golfers OF the city
are looking forward to the Phyllis Keller
Miller memorial tourney. to be held next
Monday at the Washington Golf and
Country Club. at 10 holes handicap
medal play. This event will start shortly
after 9 am. and pairings will be made
at the tee by Mrs. Frank r. Keefer and
her committee associates of the Wom-
ems District Golf Association.
J. Monro Hunter, the long-hitting
Indian Spring professional, played the
par 4 eighth hole at the Four Corners
club in a total of five strokes in two
consecutive rounds. He drove within
80 yards of the green and holed chip
shot for an eagle 2, and on the next
round holed a 6-foot putt for birdie 3.
Yesterday, playing with his son and
, B. Murphy of Columbia, he played
his second shot to the fifteenth green
and holed 10-foot putt for an eagle 3.
He drove so far on the sixteenth hole,
par 5 affair of SGT yards. that he
played a No. iron for his second shot
and would have been on the green had
the ball not kicked sharply to the left
into bunker.
More than a score of the women
players of the Chevy Chase Club are
entered in the ringer competition,
which started on April l and will end
in the Fall. Those with handicaps of
less than IA must play a full 18-hole
round for their ringer scores to count,
while those with handicaps of IA and
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