Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14

WI championships over its course,
the Congressional Country Club
last night authorized radical change
in the second nine Of the present
course. by which two entirely new holes
will be constructed, to be ready for use
next Spring, and two more of the pres
ent holes will be heightened and i'm
proved. THE old tenth hole is to be
abandoned almost in its entirety, which
should bring joy to the buffers who
approach that lengthy 6l0-yard affair
with misgiving and trepidation.
Henry J. Richardson, chairman OF the
Grounds Committee of the Congressional
Club, announced that the tenth and
sixteenth holes, as they stand at pres
ent. are to be abandoned upder plans
submitted by Donald Ross and endorsed
by the club, and the seventeenth ana
eighteenth holes are to be heightened
In addition, the creek which flows Gown
the eighteenth fairway and below the
present tenth tee will be damned to
make a 40-yard water hazard below the
next tenth tee.
Work on the new holes Is to begin
Immediately, and will be completed, &C
cording to Richardson, in time Tor play
next Spring. Par for the nine VIII be
IS and its distance will be raised from
the present yardage of 1882 to 3,201.
Par for the entire course Will remain
at 70, but the layout will be consider
ably harder than the present course
because of the addition of two hard
two-shot holes and the frightening OF
the seventeenth and eighteenth. Con-
Zressional already has before the United
States Golf Association bid for the
women's national championship, ana
Is in the field for one OF the two big
mems events.
410-Yard Hole.
A tee will be placed on the west side
of the club house, nearer the eighteenth
green than the present tenth tee for
the new tenth hole. The hole will be
played across the present tenth fairway,
in a general line toward the present
eleventh green, to a new green con-
structed on the side of the hill 410
yards from the new tee. The hole will
be a dog-leg affair from right to left,
with q ditch to carry on the second
shot to a built-up green cut into the
hill The creek must be carried on the
tee shot.
On the left side of the new tenth
green a tee for the new eleventh hole
will be built. and the hole itself will be
! played down the valley of the present
| creek at the left of the present tenth
| fairway out into what is not the hill
| overlooking the tenth green. The tenth
/ green will become the eleventh green
under the new plan, and much of the
| play will be down the valley of the
creek The quarry which now menaces
the third shot to the tenth green will
be kept as a hazard to the new eleventh
| green. The hole will be $50 yards in
length and will be real two-shotter
| demanding extreme accuracy both with
| the tee shot and the second shot. II
will be a dog-leg from right to left
! with the tee shot to be played far out
| to the right onto what is now the tenth
| fairway, from which the second shot
will be played across the corner OF the
| quarry to the present tenth green. A
/ few trees will have to be removed to
make way for the new holes, but the
| constructors will attempt, In so far as
possible, to retain the trees where they
do not interfere with plan on the line
of the hole. On both these new holes
! long hitters may cut off the angle OF
| play by taking a short cut, but the hill
sides to which long tee shots will go
will be literally sprinkled with bunkers
to discourage the long hitters in their
attempts to reach the hole by the short
route.
Sixteenth 10 be Dropped.
Club officials agree that the present
sixteenth green, because of It's small
size and It's location In a corner below
the road cannot be kept in good con-
dition during the brown patch season
20 this hole, one Of the most interesting
/ short holes around Washington, will be
abandoned and the sexenteenth tee will
b. placed 30 yards bark Of rs present
location, lengthenlng the seventeenth
hole IN about as yards Tea present
/ tor plaeina ~ the new tee Tor Ihe
eighteenth hele The new tee either
/ mas ~ placed back IN the woods al
TIE leN ~ the seventeenth areen, kn
' rafat behlnd ths present Zee. % u MAJ