Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
BUNKER TO CATCH
BALL HIT TO ROUGH
Nee Shot Off FairWay Now
Is the Easiest Way to
Get a Par 4.
BIZ WALTER R. MCCALLUM.

THE seventh hole at the Co
lulnbia Country Club, which
has been productive of more
sincere grief and also more
brides than any other hole ON the
course, is to come in for a little
more intensive bunkering within
the next few weeks than has been
the case in past years. But the
new bunkering will be about the
only bit Of new construction at
Columbia this year, according to
/. w. Laudick, chairman Of the
club greens committee.
All kinds Of great golf shots and
heartfelt grief have marked the play
at the seventh hole at Columbia IN the
years since 1919, when the green was
rebuilt to its present shape and size,
and we know at least one player at the
club who viii be pleased to know that
the bunker at the left side OF the falr-
way has been reduced in size to only
q fraction of its former length. Deucss
have been made on this par mole,
which measures only 225 yards from
tee to green. But f1yes and skies are
more common on the hole than tours,
because in that 325 yards lies d.
abolical assortment Of traps and bunk
erS, eliminating in q narrow, pocket
size putting green, amply trapped ana
cunningly undulating.
Now Shoot TO Right.
Now the Greens Committee has watch
ed the play to the seventh green for a
number of years and the members nave
figured out that the easiest way TO get
"a is from the rough at the right size
Of the fairway. The left side Is wen
taken care Of, for over there, awaiting
hook or pull, Is a high steel wire fence
surrounding George T. Dunlop's well
kspt corn field. A ball over that fence Is
a last stroke and frequently q lost bah.
But out at the right is nothing more
than q stretch Of rough. And the
rough. In late years, means nothing
much. So most players shy. away from
That fence at the left and put their
tee shots far enough TO the rlgnt 70
get into the rough. And the Greens
Committee. watching developments, de-
cided to do something about 1t. With
An a few DAYS some Of o. p. Fits best
tractor and shovel men win move down
into the rough alongside the seventh
fairWay and erect therein huge bunk
or paraTeling the line Of playa shall
low affair which win not impose TOO
gevere q penalty-but bunker deep
enough and long enough 70 caIcn mosV
of the balls that would now md a re-
epectable lie In the rough, with an easy
shot to the green.
That however, according TO Lau-
dick. win about wind UP the major con-
gtruction activity at Columbia during
the coming playing season. "Our policy
for this year at least win be one o.
grooming the course, strengthening the
play and generally keeping the course
in frst-class condition" Laudick says.
Eve do not contemplate any major
construction activities for the time be-
ing other than that at the seventh
hole. but we do not want the boys who
push 'em over in the rough to have as
easy shotyto the green as the straight
hitter"
The new tenth green at Columbia Is
Spring ana VIII make a far better sec
cud shot than the present shot. As the
hole now stands there is no particular
trouble around the tenth green, but the
new green Is elevated and banked and
WIN require an ALTAR shot TO get there
and stay.
Bannockburn, well into its course re-
construction program, Is going ahead
with the many improvements. The sec
Ond green has been resurfaced with top
soil and has been planted TO bent
etolons; new sand traps have been COM
pleted on the first, eighth and fifteenth
holes and installation of traps has be-
gun at the seventeenth. Work Is in
progress on the fifteenth tee, to be rs
feet north Of the present tee, and work
is to be started today on the new four
teenth green, located Just behind the
present green.
Negotiations also are In progress for
securing additional land east Of the
course along Conduit road, covering the
location planned for the new first green
Tand the new second tee and fairways.
The old first fairway Is to be released
gfor use as a practice course. Grading.
1widening and eurfacing Of the main
Club driveway from Conduit road to
Ehe main approach to the clubhouse is
going ahead under the supervision of
the Road and Parking Space Committee,
consisting Of Ray Garrett, DR. L. T.
Souder and Maj. G. 3. Hunt. This area
salso win be Handicapped and tennis
!eorts win be placed near the drive
way.