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a links layout that is unique
and which has seen many
unique shots. In the first place it is
one of those courses which has beer
laid out over extremely rugged country
and instead of becoming a course where
only goats or gents with cloven feet
may play golf has become one which
is a real good test Of the game and
one on which, like the Washington Golf
and Country Club course, most of the
play is down the valleys instead of over
the hills.
1t is one Of the finest public links
courses anywhere, despite its lack OF
length, and it also is the home of the
hole in one. One hole on the Rock
Greek Park course has been made in
one at least half hundred times and
all the short holes of the layouts-an
six of 'em-have been made in one,
not once, but many times
1t also is the home of the longest
hole In one ever made about the
bunker-bordered Capital, for the first
hole at Rock Creek Park-stretching
3O4 wards from tee to green-haS been
made in one stroke. History does not
recall the name of the gent who made
it, for Harry Graham, the course man
ager, says that. although it is fact,
he cannot recall the name of the lucky
gent who was good enough to knock the
ball 304 yards with such accuracy that
it went into the hole. The eighteenth
hole at CongreSsional-256 yards from
tee to green-haS been made in one
and other long par holes have been
made in one around Washington, but
that 304-yard ace made by some
anonymous gent at Rock Creek Park
stands as the longest hole in one around
the Capital.
DUT Rock Creek Park has another
ID distinction. 1t has ar all-time rec
ord score of 35 strokes, exactly the
same as that much-played course at Co.
lumbia and anywhere from 2 to IS
strokes below the all-time record scores
of the other courses around Washing
ton. Rock Creek Park has more play
than most of the others? True, but, on
the other hand, the probable class of
public links players, taken by and large,
is not as high as the class of those
more blessed with worldly goods VINO
play their golf and do their suffering at
the private golf courses. So, on the
whole, the thing probably balances
itself, with more play on the one hand
against less class of play on the other
No fewer than seven aces stand out on
the all-time record score at Rock Creek
Park, as recalled by the ubiquitous
Harry Graham, without whom Rock
Creek Park wouldn't seem like the park
at all. There are managers and man
ayers at the public courses, but without
Harry Graham at Rock Creek and AL
Farr at East Potomac public links golf
would need dozen Jim Prestons to get
anywhere. Those gents are buzzsaWs,
and no mistake. When they put their
shoulders to wheel it has to bulge,
and always in the right direction.
LERE is Rock Greek Parks all-time
L L record score, contributed by the
gents who spell the game of golf,
with the skill they have gained over the
crowded acres of the public links:
No. l, 304 yards, par 4. made in l
by a man whose name cannot be re-
called by the management
No. 2, 281 yards, part 4, made in 2
by Nick Altrock.
No. 3, 167 yards, par 3, made in l
by Dutch" Irwin.
No. 4, 1886 yards, par 4, made in 2
by Arthur Urban
No. S, 81 yards, par 3, made in by
Larry Day and some 40 others. The
most congested hole around Washing
ton for Graham estimates it has been
made in l at least SO times
No. 6, 216 yards, par 8, made in /
by Sam Parks.
No. T. 327 yards, par 4, made in 8
by Harry Graham and others.
No. 8, 462 yards, par S. made in 3
by Luther Florine and others.
No. 9, 318 yards, par 4, made in 2
by Ward Hubbard.
This gives total of 16 strokes for
the first nine against a par of "a. Tie
that, If you can.
No. 10. 406 yards, par 4, made in 3
by Claude Lawrence, Walter Hall and
others.
No. II, 14s yards, par g. made in l
by many felix's.
No. II, 238 yards, par 4, made in .
by Flick" Barrett.
No. 13, 168 yards, par 3. made in l
many times-only the other day by DR..
Thomas Linville.