Evening star., 1931-12-27
PESKY NO. 10 TO CO
At CONGRESSIONAL
Columbia viii Have Two New
Greens-Manor, Beaver
Dam Revamp Some.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

WA "AbA AllAN
playing new and different holes
on their various layouts next year
when course improvements al
ready under way or planned for
1882 are completed. Golf courses
you know, are never finished
There is always some touching ur
to be done here and there, the
position of green changed, new
tees to be built, new form OF
agony in bunker construction built
or some change made that will
change the type of play to the
hole.
There are no major changes planned
except those on the first nine al, the
Manor Club and the second nine at
Congressional but these will change
considerably the plan on both these
courses, while the changes already
made and in prospect at Beaver Dam
and Columbia will affect the play to
some extent
Columbia's New Year gift to its golf
ers will be brace of new green's
the sixth and ninth-neither of which
has yet been played on, although bot1
greens have been rebuilt within the
last 80 days. Compassionate gift to
its golfers will be pair of brand new
holes-the new tenth and eleventh.
along with which go out of existence
the old and formidable tenth-that 625-
yard hole, which has been the terror
OF buffers ever since the course was
opened nine years ego.
THANGES in tee locations at Beaver
~ Dam will add length to the thir-
teenth and sixteenth holes which
will remain as par SIS, while the eight
eenth will become a par 4, as it will
be played from the front tee new
tee contemplated for the twelfth hole
Will not change the par of that hole,
but may make an easier tee shot. The
most radical changes will come at the
Manor Club, where total of 300 yards
is to be added to the first nine holes
by lengthening the fifth and sixth holes
and shortening Of the first These
changes involve much construction work
and will not be undertaken until next
Spring. There are no major changes
planned at Chevy Chase, Washington,
Indian Spring, Kenwood, Woodmont
VI IA eJAO 1OA 1lCAU JCdl
Congressional'S new tenth and eleventh
holes have been built for more than d
year and were not put into use this
year because the new tenth green had
to be replanted during the ieight Of
the playing season. 1t is planned to
make use of both new holes next Spring
at which time the short sixteenth will
be abandoned, the present eleventh will
become the twelfth, the thirteenth will
become the fourteenth and so on. The
new tenth hole is about 440 yards in
length. while the new eleventh is about
425 yards long and will be played to
what Is now the present tenth green,
At Columbia course Supervisor Fits
Is carrying out the schedule of re-
building two greens a year on which
the club embarked year ago. Next
year it Is planned to reconstruct two
more putting greens, with the thirteenth
and seventeenth probably coming in
for some attention, while the fifteenth
may also be rebuilt. Columbia has
had its new tenth green in use since
midseason and the new sixth and
ninth greens will be used in the Spring.
VARIOUS course improvements at
Y Chevy Chase, which have been in
progress this year. will be carried
forward, even though there isn't much
left to do to the fine Chevy Chase
course, This year tie ninth green has
been reconstructed and the sixth hole
has been rebunkered.~
Kerrwood is satisfied with the course
where the National Capital Open was
played early in November and Wood
mont is standing pat on the fine course
Donald Ross built decade ago. Over
at Washington there are no major
changes in the offing, Chile Argyle,
which has rebuilt two green's this year,
is contemplating no changes for 1882.
The Indian Spring course is stationary,
so far as changes are concerned, for this
club leases the grounds from Tom
Moore-the owner-and any changes
must be "O.K.'d" by him. The course
of the Army-Navy Country Club, the
only bunkerless layout around Washing
ton, will remain much as it is today,
pending the possibility of stretching out
the ninth and tenth holes. The ground
over which it is proposed to lengthen
these holes is held by an individual
with whom the club has not been able
to make satisfactory arrangements for
purchase.
Bannockburn has gone through trying
time this year-a year which has found
the old Glen Echo Club transformed
from one of the leading clubs about the
Capital to a semi-public course. The
future of Bannockburn is none too rosy
and 1t is not unlikely that 1882 far from
seeing any improvements, will witness
the demise of the club as a going golf
organization. Most of its members have
gone to other clubs end Bannockburn,
as a private club, Is today almost a
nonentity.
A challenge flung forth by DR.. Thomas
4ool
match with two senior golfers
above S. has been accepted by Homer
S. Pope of Indian Spring and Henry
Litchfeld West of Columbia, dean Of
Washingtons golf writer's. The match
was to be played today at Indian Spring,
Utz and Stabler opposing Pope and
West.
For the first time in the history of
most clubs about the Capital, the greens
forces at many of the clubs have cut the
putting greens round Christmas time.
The favorable weather of early Winter
has encourage the growing of grass and
on greens at many of the clubs the grass
became so long it had to be cut. All
the green's at Indian Spring were cut
two days before Christmas to keep the
grass within bounds. This is the first
time within the memory of the Oldest
golfer that grass has grown so late in
the season.
Lowell Mellett, one of the two men
who were to be the beneficiaries of the
unmarked golf balls driven over Jay
williams fence near the eleventh and
twelfth holes at Washington has what
appears to be legitimate complaint.
In exchange for immunity from ex-
posure in the local press Mellet
agreed, along with Charles Nicholson,
to receive all the unmarked balls
driven into Williams property. But
Mellett now claims-with grin lurk
ing at the corners of his mouth-that
such bribery Is not a one-time propo-
sition. but continuing matter. How
can Jay expect me to keep quiet for
three golf balls?" Mellett asks.
THE Professional Golfers Associa-
l. ton of America, bellwether of the
NorL ~ ~ a.