Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-11

TINE golf course Of the staid old
Chevy Chase Club, where few
changes have been made since
1919, when the course was COM
pletely rearranged, is undergoing . new
bunkering program, which will make
play to several of the holes considerably
more dificult and will force tee shots TO
be straighter. For years Chevy Chase
has been known as 3 course where the
player, on many of the holes, could
wander from the line to the hole and
then have . shot at the green. And
the drought has beaten down the rough
until the high grass no longer rnenaces
with its severity. But II the bunkering
program now under way 10 carried to
q logical completion there win not be
q hole on the course where the player
may get OF the line and expect Q par
unless he gets down In single putt.
The major part Of the work now u
conferred around the eleventh hole, one
of the hardest par 4 affairs about the
Capital. where the long hitter, under
present conditions. can knock the ball
so far he may reach the green with q
mashie. The fairway on both sides has
two or three little pot bunkers. But
now at the left, following the natural
slope Of the ground, Dick Watson is
building o big bunker which will cover
the area where drive to the left would
normally 20. And the man who gets
on the green from this bunker viii have
made real golf shot. The bunker Is
very large in area and Is Just about the
right distance from the tee to catch
the tail end Of q pulled shot. On the
right side, about the same distance
from the tee, another bunker Is going
in to catch ball pushed of the line.
At the fifteenth an enormous trap
has been constructed just short of the
green at the 1sft side TO catch an ap-
proach OF the line. With the trap
built last year biting into the green at
the right, the approach to this green
is considerably restricted, and the need
ed shot Is one that carries all the way.
It Is possible that other improvements
In the way OF hunkefing are due for
other holesl on the course, notably the
sixth and ninth, but 50 far nothing has
been done toward STRENGTHENING these
chevy chase, from the back tees. Il
about as tough piece Of golfing ter
ritory as there Is about Washington. It
has the repuss ton Of fairly easy
course, but it is anything but set-up
when 1t L. stretched out to maximum
length. with the NV b1nkering, it
will become even harder test.
Miller d. STEVENSON, the former Dis
trict champion, has q nnongrel club he
calls his holy mashie." The club Is
really mashie niblick, Strengthened
out to give 1t the loft Of q spade mashie
And STEVENSON has punched holes in the
back Of the blade to tighten It. with
this queern looking implement he is
particularly deadly Yesterday he laid
approach shots almost stone dead at
the fifteenth and sixteenth holes at
Chevy Chase, and with his usual putting
accuracy. would have secured a brace
OF IS. His putt for at the fifteenth
was only four feet and he made it, but
at the sixteenth, where h. had putt
of about the same length, he missed.
p. w. Caifee is getting under Dave
Thomson's skin. The Washington Golf
and Country Club pro agrees that
Calfee may not be quite the luckiest
man IN the. world, but he says II he 10
not, then he must Be the runner.up to
the luckiest man alive. II had him In
the bag again the other day" Davie
walls, and he came back In "a again,
just three days after he had done & TO
me TO win match I had thought I
had won." And Caifee grinned.
"You know, Davie," he said, 81 have
been lucky against you. For some
reason or other the ball seems to 10
Just right when play against YOU. DO |
you remember the best piece Of work |
I ever did against you?" Dayie Rrinned, |