Evening star., 1931-12-18
WILL ADD DISTANCE
: CHANGING 4 HOLES
Chairman Thompson's Plans
for Improvements Will "a
Be Effected in '33.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

A N extensive program OF
" course improvement, in
a volvlng major changes on
at least four of the holes
of the first nine, the much ma
ligned woods" nine, is planned
for the Manor Club by Chairman
D. L. Thomson of the Greens Com
mittee. Thomson, who Is also
president of the District Golf As
ISOLATION and a hard worker for
improvement in golf around the
Capital, holds, with many of the
club members, that little added
length on the first nine at Manor
would improve the layout and
make the Manor Club course a
better course to play.
Here are the projected changes:
The first hole will be played to the
present second green, making a straight
away hole of drive and pitch length for
the long hitter of about 410 yards.
The second hole will be reversed. Now
short hole of little more than $50
yards in length, it will become an iron
shot of about l60 yards with new tee
to be placed near the present second
green, which will become the first green
under the rearrangement, and new
green to be built near where the second
tee now is located. The third and
fourth holes will remain the same, but
the woods on either side of the fourth
fairway are being cleared out.
THE fifth hole will be radically
l. changed. The woods will be cleared
ond q will he n1annf
west of the present tee to permit play
straight down the fifth fairway. The
fifth hole will replace the first hole as
a par 5. 1t will be exactly 500 yards
in length, and new green will be built
back in the woods behind the present
green. The hole will be heightened ITO
yards, which will permit the long
Walloping boys to strut their stuff on
this par affair.
The sixth hole will become real
two-s -shotter of about 440 yards. This
hole has been a bugaboo at Manor
since the new first nine was placed in
hole is played as a dog-leg to the right,
while the fairway slopes away from the
line of play to the left. In other words,
a ball placed down the middle of the
fairway, instead of kicking toward the
line Of play, almost invariably kicks
away from the line toward the left and
may end up in the woods. The plan
for changing the hole is to construct a
new tee in the little patch OF woods
iust south of the present third green
and construct a straight away hole OF
drive and long iron distance, with
green to be constructed well up In what
is now the first fairWay, far beyond the
present sixth green. The seventh hole
will be heightened by construction OF q
new tee to make the hole play about
$50 yards. The seventh at present Is
a very short drive and pitch mole.
THE ninth hole will remain much as
at present, although the woods at
the left are being cleaned out to
beru1it play of a ball which slides of
this fairway. The ninth fairway also
slopes down to the left away from the
Zine of play, for the hole Is a dog-leg
The combination Of the changes will
increase the length Of the first nine by
about 300 yards, bringing it up approx.
mately to the yardage Of the secono
nine and making the course OF oalanceo
layout with total yardage OF ABOUT
$500 yards. At present the hrst nine
PLAYS less than 1900 yards. while the
second nine has length OF 3,135 yards
The first nine, because OF the uee-
short and accurate hitting from the Tee
Than the mighty wallops OF long hit.
fer. while the second nine-which Is OF
good length-favors the longer hitter.
The changes are to be started next
summer, after the invitation tourney OF
the club, to make the new holes ready
for nlay In the Spring of 1888.