Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-26
.HAT golf course at Annapolis
Roads continues to defy the best
efforts of our better breakers OF

Roads continues to defy the best
efforts of our better breakers OF
par.
In playing condition for nearly two
years, during which time practically
every amateur and professional of note
in this section of the country has taken
crack at the lengthy layout near
Chesapeake Bay. the course still con-
tinues to stand as the only layout IN
this section Of the country where par
has not been bettered.
In fact par has been made only once
on the Annapolis Roads course, and
that was last year when Sidney Moore,
formerly assistant pro at Congressional.
got real "hot" with the putter and
romped around the layout in 20 strokes.
Strangely enough, the nine-hole record
for the course is held by an amateur at
33. which is two below, par, put no
amateur or professional has been able
to get as low as 10 since Moore did
his stuff in the approved fashion.
The course Is long, or at least long
enough to make 1t interesting for any
knight Of the brassie who thinks he can
knock 'em far and wide, for 1t measures
more than $500 yards from the back
teess which makes it about the second
longest layout in this sector OF the land,
second only to Beaver Dam, with its
$500 yards.
But the real trick of scoring at An
napolis Is not so much to get on the
putting green's as to putt once you get
on them. For they are so doggoned
big that even to get down in two puts
on some of them is like getting down
in one on the ordinary green. The
fifth green, for example, has some H.
600 square feet OF putting surface,
where the usual putting green size is
between 5000 and 5000 square feet.
The second green is not less than 10000
square feet and the seventh is not far
behind in total footage. Right in the
middle of the fifth and seventh green's
are two enormous bunkers, both OF
them as large as the usual large bunker
at most other courses.
Usually a wind blows at Annapolis
Roads, for the course lies on a penin-
sula between the bay, the Severn and
North Rivers, and when they STICK the
pins around at the corners Of those vast
putting greens, with wind coming in
from an unexpected quarter and big
sand trap sticking its ugly nose right
into the teeth of the shot, 1t takes
stout-hearted golfer and fine hitter
of the golf ball to knock that ball on
the line for the pin.
It must be a tough layout, for OF all
the fine players who have tried 1t only
one has gotten as low as 10, which is
par for the double circuit of the nine
hole course, and only few of the
others have dropped below rs, Harry
@. Pitt of Manor went down to Annap-
oils yesterday with that fine tee shot
of his and the usually good putting
which Pitt shows at all times. and
even though he was knocking them far
and handsome, the best he could do
was 38-37-75. Dick Cook, the pro at
Annapolis Roads, is a fine player and
the best he has been able to do is 10,
and then, he says, he was putting ex-
ceptionally well.
At least two of the holes are among
the hardest par 4 affairs we ever have
seen. The second and the seventh take
all the golf any man has to secure the
par 4, for in addition to their extreme
length, both shots must be carefully
placed to make the green, and even
after making the green it isn't the
easiest thing in the world to get down
In two puts. The short holes look
easy, but are about the toughest things
there are around. The fourth is 1875
yards in length, with a big bunker at
the left and bunkers at the back and
side, and the eighth seems like an easy
affair, but is heavily trapped at the
sides.
Skies and sevens are not uncommon
on this fancy little one shooter, which is
patterned after famous one-shot hole
at ST. Andrews, in Scotland. Just to
show that length hasn't great deal to
do with scoring at Annapolis, Harry
Pitt reached the green at the long
hole-the fiftl--in two shots on both
his rounds yesterday and still the best
he could do was 81.
Some folks are good golfers and
some are lucky. Some can keep knock
ing the ball toward q distant pin with
considerable accuracy and never get q
hole In l., while others, who might be
called the rankest Of dubs, can half
top golf ball, have it hit rock or
two, carorn OF bunker and finally
wind up In the hole for an ace Which
is all by way Of saying that those
miracles Of golf-holes "a lido not