Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-06

TIME Bannockburn Golf Club may
be on the threshold Of a COM
plete revamping Of its pres
ent golf course.
Charles H. Banks, eminent course
architect and designer OF the famed
Annapolis Roads course and otner
outstanding layouts, is to come 10
Washington next week to make what
may be final arrangements with the
club for a complete revision OF the
present layout, in which virtually all
the holes Will be changed ana the
course completely modernized ana
trapped in up-to-date fashion. The
move has been Ion the fire. for sew
eral months, ever since a group OF
Bannockburn members oeclueo last
Spring that something could ne done
TO improve the present layout ana De-
gan sounding out cther members ana
members OF the club board OF COVER
nors, with a view to oerermlnlhS the
sentiment toward giving Bannockourn
modern golf course.
Banks will come to the Capital
equipped with complete plans Tor the
changes he proposes TO MAKE on the
present layout and with an estimate oil
The cost, according TO the CLUB MEM
bers, who have been in touch with him,
So 1t may be that the hllly Bannock-
burn course this Winter will be the
scene OF mucn course construction
work, tor the under standing Is that
many OF the present holes wall oe ma
terialy changed.
Bannockburn has made long Strioes
forward since the clue lett the old
course near Chevy Chase Circle Ill 1yIO
and moved over 10 the hills overlooking
the river near Glen Echo. The nrs.
course was a nne-hole affair, built
through The hills, and using most OF the
holes which now are Included In the
present l8-hole layout. In 1928 the
club engaged William Comedian to con-
StrucJ number OF additional holes on
the hilltop overlooking the cid nine
hole course, and Conneiian went to WORK
throughout that Winter ana the follow
ing Spring to blast out from the rocky
hills.oes of that undulating plateau
golf course which has since become
Nnown as one of the most difncult about
Washington.
The course has rounded into shape
ana Is in good condition, considering
the drought, but many of the clup
members are not satisfied with certain
holes and certain green's, notably the
third and fifth. Otner holes, they be-
lieve, are not properly constructed, and
so they got Banks to go over the course
last Spring and tell them OF his ideas
on the possible reconstruction OF the
Bannockburn layout. Banks walked
over the course and gave them pre-
liminary estimate, totaling several
thousand dollars, which is understood
% have been satisfactory, and next week
he will come to Washington with
complete set of plans, prepared to sub
NIT them to the club for the final o. K.
and await the signal to proceed with
the work.
Nothing will be undertaken. however,
before the Fall invitation tourney of the
Bannockburn Club. which is to be held
September 10, IL, IL and 10, and will be
the only big invitation event OF the Fall
for Capital golfers
Tony Sylvester, the rotund pro at
Bannockburn, is coming to be known
these DAYS as the birdie king on the
par 5 holes. Within the last few days
Tony, whose long game has heightened
out this year, has secured birdie Is on
the second and sixteenth at his own
course and few days back he and
Dave Thomson of Washington played
Frank Hartig and Cliff McKimnie at
Indian Spring. At the lengthy sixteenth
Tony got a birdie 4 to put the match
on ice for his side.
In the recent match at Bannockburn
in which Sylvester and AL JamiSon beat
Hartig and McKimmie, 1t was Sylvester