Evening star., 1931-12-23
BEAVER DAM PAR,
73, NEVER BEATEN
Layout of 6,827 Yards Has
Yielded 27 Strokes in
Eagles and Brides.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

' many ways it's hardest
layout - on which the
par of 73 never has been broken
by any golfer, be he amateur or
professional, has a record all-time
score of 46, 4 strokes lower than
the all-time record of the shorter
course of the KenWood Golf and
Country Club and 27 strokes be-
low par.
The course is that OF the Beaver Dam
Country Club at Landover, Md, and
you will have to spend many an hour
travelling over the bunkered landscape
before you can find one as hard and as
lcrg. Lots Of big time golfers have
played the course and the best anyone
has Gone IS 73, the mark which has
been made several times by Martin F.
Mccarthy, former club champion and
one of the outstanding players of the
club.
Beaver Dam comes nearer, from the
standpoint of length alone, of approxi-
mating a course of championship length
than any golf layout around the Capt.
tai. 1t stretches out to a distance of
6,027 yards, and with the changes that
are listed TO be made before another
season of play rolls around, it may run
out to the full distance OF 5000 yards.
Many championships have been played
on courses 400 yards shorter.
Where Course Is Unique.
Beaver Dam is unique in having a
series Of two shot holes of maximum
drive and iron length. No drive and
pitch affairs, these holes that contribute
so much to the extreme length that
makes the Landcver layout the hard
course it is. Real back breakers where
the slugger is in his element, holes Of
par range, where much more than 400
yards Of distance stretches between tee
and pin and where the player who can
wind himself up and knock a golf ball
a mile can do his stuff without fear Of
hindrance
If the course was played as much as
Chevy Chase or Columbia, some one
might have slipped in a lucky braSsie
shot or some freak shot. but none of
those lengthy Par 4 affairs at Beaver
Dam has been made in two strokes.
Holes like the second and fifteenth,
which are of drive and pitch length,
have been holed in two. but those big
drive and long iron holes have SO far
withstood the assaults of those who
would register eagles on them
The present Beaver Dam layout is
about four years old and the mines mea-
sure 3,347 yards and 3480 yards, re-
spectively.
All Time Record for Course
Here is the all-time record for this
course. where the sluggers delight in
doing their stuff
No. /, 364 yards, par 4. made in 3.
No. ?. 3l3 yards, par 4, ho!ed in by
Bill White, Martin F. Mccarthy and
others.
No. 3. 348 yards par 4. made in 3.
No. 4, asa yards, par 5, made in 3
many times.
No S. l6O yards, par 8, holed in by
Mccarthy.
No. s. AT yards, par a, holed in
many times
No 7, 445 yards. par 4, holed in 3
many times
No, 8, 4lo yards, par 4, holed in 3 sew
eral times.
No. 9. 42s yards, par 4, holed in 3
several times
This gives a total for the out nine of
"a strokes, against par of So.
No. TO- 449 yards, par 5, made in 3.
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No. 10, Alb yards. par 4, made in 8.
No. l3 483 yarGs, par s. made in 3.
No, IA l56 yards, par 3, made in by
L. S StOtt and Mccarthy.
No. IS, 367 yards. par T. holed in
by William H. White.
No. l6, 46l yards, par 5, made in
several times.
No. II. 218 yards, par 3, made in l by
L. l.. Nicholson.
No. 10, $50 yards. par s. made in 3
several times.
Fifteen Strokes Below Par.
This gives a total for the last nine Of
% strokes. against a par of 81, or IS
strokes below par on nine holes. Tie
that if you can! Two of the three par
5 holes on this lengthy last nine can be
reached with two big shots however
Beaver Dam plans to make a few
minor changes in its golf course next
year, among them lengthening OF the
thirteenth hole by going back to the
old tee; new tee on No. u to make
the tee shot a straightaWay affair, and
conversion of the eighteenth hole into
a par affair by construction of new
tee well in front of the present tee At
the same time the sixteenth tee will be
placed further back to keep we'll hit
balls out of the bunker which crosses
the fairway.
MRS. FRANK R. KEEFER, president
1'1 of the District Golf Association,
has announced the presentation Of
a cup by her to the association, to be
played for next year by woman golfers
around Washington. The tourney will
be PLAYED at Chevy Chase next Spring
over the 36-hole route. and will be at
medal play with handicapS, the handi-
cap limit to be 16 strokes The tour
ney will thus become similar to the one
now held for The Evening Star trophy