Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
BURNING Up COURSE
AT CONGRESSIONAL
Twice Shoots 70 on Tough
Home Layout, Despite
Advancing Years.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

Y TERE is one for the book of those
- gents who think that because
man gets sprinkling of gray
hair in his thatch and gathers
unto himself little rotundity around
the belt line, he can't hold his own in
the little matter of knocking strokes
from the par of any golf course. 1t
refers to Sandy Armour, the pro at
Congressional, who apparently has be-
gun to take golf seriously, and shows
it by the scores he has been turning in
in recent weeks.
BY way of showing just what Sandy
can do, we hasten to remark that three
days ago he played the last six holes
at Congressional in 18 strokes-even IS
for the layout. BRIDES came on the
fourteenth and fifteenth holes. on the
heels of par at the thirteenth ana
followed by another par at the seven
tenth, and Sandy ended this grand
splurge of golf by canning a lengthy
putt for an eagle 2 on the eighteenth.
And if you think this doesn't represent
a VANISHED piece of golf over Congress
sional, try it yourself some time. That
score enabled the Armour gent to finish
a round in 10 blows, which is better
than par and is strictly in line with
what Sandy has been doing over his
own course recently. Not every one
knows that Sandy Armour was one of
the outstanding amateur golfers of
Britain and would be one of the out
standing American professionals If he
worked at the game as some of the
younger pros do. But the fact is that
Sandy Armour has as much sound golf
as any professional in the world, and
when he really takes the game seriously,
he is a match for many men-even his
brother Tommy, when the latter is at
his best The day before this stunt,
Armour came home over the same nine
holes in 80 strokes, for another 10.
The Congressional board of directors
will have before 1t next Friday at the
annual meeting the proposal, already
Endorsed by the golf committee, to elm
mate the present tenth and sixteenth
holes and make in place of the elon-
gated tenth two holes, which will both
be two-shotters. The proposal already
has been outlined In The Star, has the
backing of the golf committee, and, If
passed by the board, probably will be
a development of the next few months.
Out Of the meeting of the United
States Golf Association last Friday has
come a really constructive idea-the
raising of the age limit at which a
youngster automatically becomes pro-
fessional because of his money-making
activities in connection with the game. |
The association raised the age limit |
for caddies from Is to 18 years; said |
that a boy who carries bags for hire |
does not automatically become a pro-
fessional when he reaches 16 years of |
age, but may carry for hire until his |
eighteenth birthday anniversary
The ruling makes it possible for many
lads who do not want to become pro-
fessional golfers to pick up good money
by caddying until they become IL years
old.
Everything comes to him who waits
In golf, If he waits long enough and
picks day when everything breaks
right for hin1-even against the District
champion. So it must seem today to
Carl j. Quentell of Columbia, as he
contemplates his record breaking per-
Torrance of last Wednesday, when he
upset a bucket full of dope, scattered
preconceived ideas of handicaps far and
wide and smothered Miller B. STEVENSON
and couple Of other gents under
fury Of pars and brides that enabled
him TO get around the course of the
many strokes better than he ever had
done before.
Even Stevinson-determine golhng
gent that he is-wtth knack of con-
verting bad situations into good ones
(for hin), admitted that he had pulled
a boner when he attempted to concede
Quentell S, 6 and UP. That's the way
they do it at Columbia. If the disparity
between two players is quite marked
they grade handicaps in that manner,
so as to give the less skillful gent
chance with the higher handicap even
If he fails to make the grade with the
lower handicap. So Quenten started
out against STEVENSON with fair chsnce
to break even with the District title
holder. AS he went on he got better
and better, and at the end he had
on the last hole for 70, which Is by
long odds the best Quentell ever has
done on the Columbia layout. He
missed a wee putt on the last green for
his 70, but the IA was in the bag Just
the same. Which goes to show that II
q golfer tries and keeps on trying and
holes few puts and hiss all his snots
straight and few more such matters
he can get around even such q marc
course as the Columbia layout In very
respectable figures. That "a, however,
probably will cost Quentell quite num-
her of matches for his associates know
all about it and naturally they VIII want
TO handicap him on a basis which has
that "a In mind. How golf1ng guy
can suddenly drop from an average
score of IS or 86 down TO such low
mark as IA is beside the point. Inc
fact remains that the smiling carr ulu
it, even though it may cost him lew
bets. For it isn't reasonable to assume
that the men with whom he plays con-
stantly are going to forget that "A IN a
hurry. But even If it costs him pet or
two, Quentell considers it well worth
while. For 1t does not fall to every man
to shoot a IA at Columbia. even WIN