The Washington times., 1930-08-09
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BY JUNO KINERKl.

What Importance the drive in.
goaf?
The answer to that one depends
lthpn the course and the way the.
hoies are constructed: what nat
t1raI hazards, such as woods. water
or troublesome rough, flank the
1airways..
Eight now. with the courses
burned to q crisp and the fair
ways baked to the. consistency Of.
concrete, the drive is Just about
rs per cent of ones game.
]. All the long hitters are getting
tremendous distance back Of their
]. tee wallops, holes Of 400. yards are
only. a drive and nashie 11ibllc.
The 800 and 35O-yard holes are
reached with an accurate and
hard wallop, while brides are the
rule on the longer par SIS.
>. Ordinarily the drive Is lust :,
about 50 per cent Of ones
game on the average course.
Some courses penalize an sr-.
rant tee shot more than an
other, and on these the drive
= is worth so per cent.
If q hooked or sliced drive
doesn't go out of bounds, into
woods, water or traps, where a
good shot is available to the target
Green no matter whether the
.player is. off the lire or not. the
value of the tee shot naturally de-
creaSes.
Such a. course as Indian Spring
is like this. There are only three
holes where wild drive hurts, so
!just as long as the player gets
!. long tee. shot he is, Just as we'll
off as the straight player who is
always on the object fairway.
AT Manor or Washington Golf
and Country Club its quite a diff
ferent matter from Indian Spring !.
On these a drive off the fairway
is In trouble, and with capital
T., usually. On layouts such as
these two it's the long and &C.
curate hitter who gets the scores
because the other fellow uses UP
plenty of extra strokes extricat-
ing. himself from the various pitt
falls into which he wanders.
In the face of what we have
had and are having in the way
Of weather one: doesn't care to
60 on record as saying this
drought ever viii end. BY and
by rain will come, though, it's
bound to, and when it does some
Of these chaps who have been
scoring like they never have be- |
fore are going to find things
different. And it'll be because
their driving has shortened up.
Instead Of rollink IS yards
the ball will be stopping in
5 and 10 yards then. Right
now, though, these long hit
q. ters are enjoying q perfect
paradise of scoring reveIry
that is compensation aplenty
for the fact that playing con.
sditions aren't what they
usually are under normal con-
EDITIONS.
The regularly scheduled semi
monthly tournament Of the Mid
Atlantic pros, which was to take
place Monday at Columbia, has
been called off. Quite a few Of
the local lads and some Of the
Baltimoreans had made plans to
play in the Philadelphia Open
Monday so it was necessary to
cancel the local event.
Mrs. Frank r., Keefer led 10
players home in the miniature
ternament at Bannockburn yester-
day. Despite the torridity and
the up-and-down wearing Glen
Echo course effects on the players
the scoring was good. Mrs.
Keefer's winning gross card was
q 81, while Mrs. Jerome Meyer,
of Woodmont, turned In a 93s
1878 to capture the low net
prize. The match play results
follow:
MRS. Keefer' defeated Mrs.
Meyer, 2 up; Mrs. Newman Little
defeated Miss Fay, 4 and 8;
Mrs. H. B. EIird defeated Miss
Harris, z and s; Mrs. r. n.
beavers defeated Mrs. J. r.
Powell, 4 and 8, and Miss Sue
CAN'T defeated Miss Keynon, 5
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