Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16
FULLEST PROGRAM
IN YEARS PLANNED
Win Have Four Affairs if
Congressional ReneWs.
&c. A. Test Tough.
BY W. R. McCALLUM.


With many of the clubs shift
ing their invitation tourna-
lnent dates forward to the Spring
of the year, the Fall season, when
some of the finest golfing weather
awaits us around Washington, has
been rather dull in late years. For
several years, barring the year the
Manor Club held its initial invi-
tation event back in the Fall OF
1929, the Autumn months have
yielded only three big tourna-
ments.
But this Fan there are three events
scheduled and one that probably viii
nnaterializa to rescue the late golf sea-
son from the doldrums Of club cham
pionships and purely club events.
The Army-Navy Country Club has
listed an invitation tourney Tor Sep
TENDER %, "a and IS. The District anna
teur championship will be played on
at Burning Tree over the champion
ship 72-hole distance on September 10
and IL, and on the last day OF the
sirr1or-pure title chase most of the pros
from around Washington and Balti-
more will be competing in the Mary
land opln championship at Congress
sional. The two events conflict, Tor the
last day Of the District amateur event
is also the day of the Maryland open,
but it seems nothing can be done about
1t and the two viii run along concur
rentlv. The Maryland open becomes
quite a money event this year, with
1000 added for the pros to shoot at,
even though the pros attached TO Mary
land clubs have been taking a lot OF
ioshing from pros outside the State be
cause the MARYLAND open is not open to
the world However the tourney is to
be run of by the Maryland State Golf
Association and the pros have nothing
to do but play for the dough.
A LONG in October, preferably, when
"A the winds begin to blow from
Chesapeake Bay, will come the
scheduled invitation tourney OF the
Annapolis Roads Golf Club. The one
event that is not definitely settled is
the proposed renewal Of the Congress
sional Country Club invitation tourna-
ment. Sentiment among many Of the
golfing members Of the Congressional
club Is yet toward making the tourney
but there has been no action by the
cIob as vet toward making the toorney
a Pail fixture. The Bannockburn invita-
ton win not be played this year. Most
of the older members OF Bannockpurn--
the men. who did the entertaining in
the old days-have left the club and
Bannockburn probably will never again
hold an invitation tourney. But in place
al the Bannockburn tourney viii come
the Arny~Navy Club event, and with
Annapolis Roads, the District amateur
and the Maryland open scheduled, the
FAN golf season will not be such q duh
time after all.
been marked during the last few years.
II has not been 50 many years ago that
the Columbia tourney was held IN the
Fall. and the Congressional Country
Club tourney was first held in the Fall.
Manor held its first invitation event in
the Pail. but all three clubs now have
shifted TO Spring dates, overcroWding
the Spring calendar and leaving the
Fail season barren of big events.
MOST Of the Washington profess
vi SIGNALS will journey over TO the
Five Farms course Of the Baltimore
Country Club Friday to play in the
sectional qualification round for the
p. q. A. championship. And u any one
thinks the pros win burn up that course
with sub-par scores he Is as Tar on as
q missed tee shot =
IN the first place Five Farms has
watered fairways In the second place,
with these watered fairways, IT plays
amply long from the back tees. And in
thz third plgce the bent putting green's
DO not lend themselves 70 the best put
ting touch.
Five Farms has stood up very well
under the warm weather we have had
this year The faifways are excellent
and the putting greens generally are IN
first-class shape. Only two OF them
are in poor condition. and OF these
two--the fifteenth and seventeenth-the
last named really Is bad. There Is very
little grass left on the seventeenth,
which lies in pocket in the woods. and
we predict that that green win ruin a
few dispositions when the boys play
there next Friday.
But the main part Of the course has
withstood the hot weather very well.
Five Farms is what might be termed
heroic golf course II viii succun1b TO
the long hitter, but the hitter must also
be straight. Il probably win be made
little tighter around the green's for the
amateur championship next year, but
even As IL stands today, no man Is going
TO burn up q course that plays around
$500 Yards. Not with so many par-4
holes that require drive and spoon
or long-ranse iron.
When men like Bob Barnett and
Iarktn Of Chevy Chase and Ralph Beach
of Baltimore require spoon shots 70 get
home on a hole that Is listed at ITS
wards and play q hole that measures
3s5 yards with drive and Dig iron
no one Is likely to score sensationally.
Many OF the washington pros played
Five Farms last week In practice Tor
the test Friday, and the best score oil
which we heard was 76 BY waiter
Cunningham IL Burning Tree. With
three places open in the Middle Atlantic
section. the probability is that score
OF l54 viii get in.
MOST Of the conversation heard
vi about the big new bali back in the
Spring has subsidized. Perhaps 1t
ia because fairwass had been fairy fast
until the recent rains or perhaps the
players are getting used 10 the new
sphere but the fact OF the matter Is
that few complaints are heard now
adays about IT,
n hardly is conceivable that the
United states Golf Association wiz
cause a change in the size. slthougn
tfndercurrent Fumors have II the bail
may be made q shade heavier. The real
truth probably Is that not man In 20
could tell the difference in actual play
81 he did not know he was using the
new ball.
Two holes in one have been made
recentlv at East Potomac Park. Porter
a Snreve made one and G. @. Luck
scored the fouth on course G IN one n
match with X. r. Kellernlan and q.
r. Wilson.