Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-15
axe Maryland State Golf Associa-
ton is making a drive to COM
pile handicaps for all the mem.


ton Is making a drive to COM
pile handicaps for all the mem
beers Of all the clubs who hold
membership in the association. Within
few days oficial State handicaps will
be announced for the members Of the
Columbia Country Club, the Indian
Spring Golf Club, the Congressional
Country Club and the Chevy Chase
Club, the four local organizations which
hold membership in the State associa-
ton.
The association bases its handicap
rating on two courses which 1t has
placed at scratch, both in the Balti-
more area. These are the Five Farms
course of the Baltimore Country Club
and the course of the Woodholme Coun-
try Club. The four local clubs which
are members of the State organization
have had their courses placed son l
handicap rating, although how this can
be done is somewhat OF mystery. Why
such courses as Indian Spring and Co
lumbia are not just as tough to score
on as Five Farms is hard to figure, but
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done. None of the local courses has
been given scratch rating, although
for q time the State organization off,
cials had decided to give Congressional
a scratch ranking because Of its length.
They later changed this rating to a /
handicap.
1t will be interesting to note how the
members Of the local clubs are handt-
capped, in view Of the fact that IN the
team matches concluded last month TWO
washington clubs reached the final
round and played among themselves
for the State team title, despite the
fact that their memberships in the
State association were not more than
a month and half old at the time.
The Maryland State Association In
cludes in its membership several public
parks teams, which has not made de-
cided hit with the members OF the
member clubs in the Washington area,
on the theory that although the mem
bers of private clubs have to entertain
and play the public parkers over the
courses of the clubs, the public parkers
cannot reciprocate in similar fashion.
Likewise, If a public parks team wins
the trophy, the members OF private
clubs say, what will become of the
championship trophy? 1t seems that
even though no local clubs are handt-
cauped on q scratch basis, the Mary
land State Association will have to take
coQnizance in its handicap ratings OF
the fact that the golf teams of two local
organizations won their way to the final
round of the State team championship
over the best opposition the rest OF the
State could muster.
AT a guess, we would say that Wash
ington, as q city, can put q ten-man
team in the field that would beat a
similar ten-man team from Baltimore,
which would seem to explain the fact
that two local teams won their way to
the final Of the State team champion
ships. Why, therefore, should not the
members of the local clubs be handi-
capped lower than their Baltimore
rivals.
The State association is doing q
fine job in setting handicaps, however,
even though they may not be exactly
right. For they plan to issue to each
handicapped player an official State
handicap card, which will show at q
glance that he is q member of a mem
Der club of the State association and
has an official State handicap. 1t will
serve as an identification card at golf
clubs when the member is travelling and
viii be useful in a number Of ways.
Out at the washington Golf and
Country Club there is a golfing gent
whose game shas so improved in the
last few months that Frank K. Roesch,
The District champion, and Dave Thorn
son, the club pro- shake their heads and
say they cannot beat him while he is in
his present scoring streak. The gent Is
Rudolph T. Harrell, and he used to be
the champion of the Congressional
Country Club before he resigned his
membership in that club and began
playing almost exclusively at WASH
ington.
BY some alchemy Of the game, Har-
rell, whose average score during most Of
the season was about rs or 10, sud-
denly has found his stroke, and is
knocking the ball around the WASH
ington course In an average Of about
70 or N-good enough, Thomson says,
to cause the Scot all sorts Of trouble
every time he starts against Harreli.
Just the ther day Harreil started with
q on the par 4 first hole and was out
In "a strokes. which Is 1 better than