Evening star., 1932-10-28
Chevy Chase Course Defies Par Shooters
MUST HIT STRAIGHT
AND FAR TO SCORE
Charlie MackaII Declares It
Finest Test of Golf
in Country.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

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<fTTS good to get back on
golf course where you have
/ to play all your shots we'll
to score anywhere near
par. Every year when I come
back to Washington I look for
ward to playing this Chevy Chase
course. I think it is the finest
test of the game I know"
The speaker was Charles M Mackall,
former Virginia foot ball star. who has
become one of the best golfers ever
turned out at Chevy Chase and Wash
ington. where he learned the game in
his schoolboy years. Charlie Mackall
now lives in Cincinnati where he
is connected with one of the big steel
companies, but he comes back to Wash
ingtop and Chevy Chase each year for
q vacation. and to play what he believes
to be the best golf course in the country.
t.VOU know" Charlie said, "a lot of
i people have told me what an easy
golf course Chevy Chase is. They
say you can hit the ball all over the
lot and still get around in a respectable
score. But the funny part of it is I
don't see any of them getting down
near par. This course is not only
pleasure to play, but it is one of the
hardest courses I know. The par is
honest and hard, the distances are good
and while the course repayS good shots
it severely penalties bad shots I GER
tainly get a big kick out of coming
back to play at Chevy Chase every year"
That sentiment just about crystallizes
the way good many people feel about
that fine Chevy Chase golf course.
Some folks with an eye toward those
gently rolling fairways and the absence
of traps that cluster closely around the
putting greens. view Chevy Chase as
cinch Yet only once in amateur COM
petition has the par for the course been
equaled, and it never has been broken
in medal play round, notwithstanding
the great number of crack amateurs
who have tried their shots over the
layout for 20-odd years in the series of
competitions for the Taft and Sherman
Trophies. George Voigt did 50 back
in 1927. Like all good courses Chevy
Chase is easy for the man who hits that
ball straight and far, but it has
habit of closing in on those who miss
the narrow path to the hole.
DOB BARNETT, the Chevy Chase
- pro, who has seen all the good
courses in the country, thinks there
Is no layout like Chevy Chase. Natu-
rally he would think so, but he cites
many reasons above his attachment for
his opinion. There isn't loaflng
spot anywhere along the route" Bar
nett says. you've got to hit the ball
well all the time. And there are few
opportunities to pick up the strokes
you drop"
Bob holds the unofficial record for
the course at "a, made on a day in the
Summer of 1880 when he was knock
ing the puts in from all angles. Gene
Larkin has done the course twice in IS,
both times under abnormally fast con-
ditions Par for the course is 50. The
full distance is about 6,400 yards.
Through the years since 1919. when
the old course was remodeled by Mac
Kenzie, Colt and Alison, the Chevy
Chase layout has not stood still.
the holes. notably the fourth. sixth.
ninth, twelfth and fifteenth All the
changes serve to improve the layout
and make it tougher for the par seeker.
That ninth hole. even from the view
point of mere distance, is tough par 5.
It stretches a full $50 yards from the
back tee and traps have been placed
at both sides of the entrance to make
it tougher for the man who tries Tor
the green. OF all the drive and pitch
holes, the seventeenth generally is re-
garded as the best. The fourth hole
now Is undergoing change, with a
new green under construction immedl-
ately north of the old green. The two
greens will be used alternately.
MEMBERS of the Manor Club
1V1 gathered last night at the club
house to attend reception given
in honor of the officers of the club. The
affair was arranged by John c. Crockett
and more than 200 club members turned
out to greet the club officers in the
initial reception held by the Manor
Club for the men who handle the club
activities. Thomas w. Brahany presided
in his inimitable style, and the following
washington artists assisted: Mr.. and
Mrs. John F. Bowie, Miss Mary
O'Donoghue, Charles Tittman, Matt
Horne, George O'Connor and Evelyn
ThomaidieS.
AIRS. J. M. HAYNES not only is the
lVl finest shot maker among woman
golfers OF the Columbia Country
Club and the Middle Atlantic sector, but
she also is playing this year the best
golf she ever has played in her brief
career as a linkSwoman. She demon
strated this to the satisfaction of a
gallery of women who watched her de-
feat Mrs James w. Beller in the final
round of the Columbia woman's title
event yesterday. Mrs. Haynes was the
defending champion, but she never has
played such fine golf as she showed in
the tourney which ended yesterday when
Chairman George P. James of the Golf
Committee presented the prizes in his
usual pleasing fashion.
The champion won the qualifying
round with record card of II, and her
closest match in the tourney ended on
the thirteenth hole Yesterday she was
out in 80 despite on the ninth hole,
and with S on the par 3 thir-
teenth and a 6 on the eighteenth she
was around in 81. Against such golf
Mrs Beller was helpless.
Mrs. j. A. Mari won the first flight
consolation, defeating Mrs. Norman B.
Frost by and 5. The second flight
went to Mrs. Newman Little, who beat
Mrs. A. C. Minnix, 2 and l. Mrs Her
man Stabler won the consolation, down.
ing Mrs. E. NJ. Amick, l up. In the
third fight Ruth Reilly beat Mary Min
nix, l up, in 81 holes, and the consola-
ton went to Mrs A. S. Gardiner, who
beat Mrs. H. Clifford Bangs, and 2.
AIRS. F. W. BRADBURY annexed
lV1 the Tschifely Trophy yesterday
at the Washington Golf and
Country Club, adding net score OF
m to her 20 of the previous day to WIN