Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25
BUNKERS CHANGED
TO BETTER COURSE
Major improvements Made
on Sixth, Ninth Holes
of Club Layout.
By W. R. McCALLUM.

n TOT since 1920, when the
N course was entirely recon
i y Structed, has there been sc
much sign of activity by
way of new work at the course Of
the Chevy Chase Club as there Il
this Spring.
To those who have not played
the layout since last year the
changes on the last nine will be
apparent. While locations Of the
green's are the same as they were
last year, a new species Of bunker
ing on the tenth, eleventh and flf-
teenth holes makes these holes
better and harder, and the end is
not yet.
More and better bunkering is in sight
for the first nine, If the board OF gov
errors accepts the recommendation OF
the Golf Committee. The major changes
planned for this year involve the sixth
and ninth holes, and particularly the
ninth, which has been for many years
a featureless hole, even though 1t Is q
par . Va SALEGIlt 1S4lBbA1s
Many Changes in Is Years.
Chevy Chase has changed greatly
within the past decade and half from
the old-tiYn0 course with several greens
sloping away from the play into a first
class course Of modern green construc-
ton with well trapped fairways and
greens and completely up-to date lay
out The hunker1ng program which has
to stiffen up the weak spots on the
course.
Three very fine drive and pitch holes,
the equal of any around the Capital,
are on the present Chevy Chase layout
and will not be changed. These are
the seventh, nth and fourteenth. All
of them are strong holes. All need a
well placed and lengthy tee shot and
an accurate pitch shot.
During the winter the fifteenth green
has been retrapped, making the APP
proach shot to the green a harder
stroke to play, and a new bunker has
been placed along the right-hand edge
of the rough 20 prevent interference
with play to the sixteenth hole.
The tenth hole, where in former
years it used to be possible to half top
g tee shot and run through the bunker
10 the green, now has q big bunker in
4AO4Ab Va bA1S RuIb4A45 cu1AnCE. NO 4O16CG
will a haf-toppped ball skip merrily
through a bunker
The bunkering at the eleventh has
been stiffened by a series Of huge traps
along the right and left sides Of the
fairways to catch tee shot of the
line and make it impossible to get home
in two shots unless the drive is straight
down the alley.
Alternate Green Built,
The twelfth green, reconstructed last
year, now has an alternate green wen
to the right Of the line of play, which
may be put in use II the regular green
goes bad during warm weather. All in
an, the already fine course Of the Chevy
Chase Club is being stfHened and made
more difficult year by year.
We've heard lots Of folks call Chevy
Chase an easy golf coufse-that is for
scoring purposes. But we never have
found a frst-class player who was will
ing to admit that Chevy Chase Is
set-up. True, the greens are quite large
and the approaches are not overly
severe.
But the very fact that the green's are
large does not make for easy golf, for
a putt counts as much as tee shot in
any mans game. And such holes as
the fifth, seventh eleventh, fourteenth,
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth can
ruin the score of any golfer.
The seventeenth probably Is the finest
two-shotter on the course It is more
than a drive and pitch hole, for the
average tee shot win hardly get beyond
the top Of the hill, where q long iron
shot is needed to get home.