Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12

nor many years the long hitterS
- who have played the Congress
sional Country Club course have
made vain attempts to knock
ball on the surface of the putting green
at the fourth hole, 800 yards from the
tee and over a bad piece of terrain, II
the straight line to the hole is to be
taken. Tommy and Sandy Armour
have tried it and failed. So have all
the long hitting amateurs who have
gone over to Congressional to play that
lengthy layout, among them M. Parker
Nolan, who has been hitting a golf ball
considerable distances now for two or
three years.
At last along came the man with the
necessary wallop and the ball hit in
the proper spot-in fact, the only spot
which will put tee shot on that
putting green. The fellow is Mike
sity coaching staff and foot ball player
of note few years back. Mike leaned
into one of those long wallops he hits
every now and then, poked 1t straight
over the bunker at the left side of the
fairway and found the ball in the
middle of the green, where he had a
reasonable putt for a deuce. Twos have
been obtained on that fourth hole be-
fore, but no golfer, so far as is known,
has had a fairly short putt for the
deuce. Sandy Armour holed a chip
shot not so long ago for deuce and
other tWos have been secured on the
hole.
And then, just to show that the
Y11iOhfV n1loO at the foIIrfJ, hole nyo {
not f1uke, Palm got back of another
at the long eighth and nearly hit the
ball into the bunker guarding the green.
$40 yards from the tee. His ball stopped
just four feet short of the hazard. He
was playing with Frank S. Hughes and
Charles Mckinley.
OF course hard ground conditions
have contributed to the lengthy wallops
that are being hit these days from the
tee, and Palm had big wind behind
him on both the fourth and eighth. But
w. Carlton Evans had no wind behind
him the other day when he poled big
shot from the seventh tee at Columbia,
which went into the bunker ordinarily
supposed to catch the second And then
at the twelfth he knocked the ball so far
on this par hole that it went far down
the hill, away past the spot where good
tee shots are supposed to go.
IL SeSIIlS TdJIlST paCIlSClC LIleSS Gays
when such holes as the twelfth at Co
lumbia. the fourth at Washington, the
eleventh at Chevy Chase, and the eighth
at Congressional, all par affairs with
the exception of the one at Chevy
Chase, can be played with drive and
a light iron, frequently with mashie
second shot. The holes we're not intend
ed for any such thing, and it makes
golf quite a different thing from the
game of soft ground when the tee shot
rolls matter of 10 or IS yards.
Greenkeepers at few of the local
clubs, able to get enough water to keep
their putting green's in shape, have
found that the Poa annua grass, which
makes a fine putting surface, is going
out under the hot sun and leaving
only the harder bents to fight the bat
tie of the putting greens. Poa annua, as
its name implies, is an annual grass
which reseeds itself, sometimes several
times a season. but it has not been able
to Withstand the heat of the Summer
The bent grass will fill in the spots left
by the failure of the Poa annua, and
the latter grass itself will come back
as soon as rain and cool weather come
along.
Nearly twoscore golfers Of the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club have
been signed up for the match with Co.