Evening star., 1932-09-11
GOLF DATE CHANGE
MADE BY KENW00D
Brilliant Array of Pros Is Ex.
peCted to Compete on
November II, 13.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

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golf championship, major
professional tournament in
this part Of the country,
has been definitely postponed
from the original early October
date and will be played at Ken
wood Golf and Country Club on
November IL and 13.
AS last year it will be played at 81
holes, with an 18-hole round on Satur-
day, November IL, followed by 36 holes
on Sunday, November 13. The change
in dates was necessary according TO
Al Houghton, professional at Kenwood,
in order to line up the dates with fix
lures sponsored by the Professional
Golfers Association and to bring the
Kenwood open into line with the mid
South open, which will be played at
Pinehurst on November 16 and IT.
Prize money for the Kenwood open
again will total $2,5O0. The field to
compete in the 1882 edition of the Ma
tional Capital open will be the most
brilliant group of professionals ever
gathered around Washington for an
open event, according to Houghton. He
has received positive acceptances to
play in the tourney from Gene Sarazen,
United States and British open cham
pion; Walter Hagen, former holder of
both national titles; Tommy Armour,
who also has held both major cham
pionships; Willie MacFarlane, winner of
the National Capital open last year;
Bobby Cruickshank, who finished in
tie for second in this years United
States open; Harry Cooper, Craig Wood,
Johnny Farrell, Ed Dudley, Joe Turn
esa, Billie Burke, last years open cham
pion; Horton Smith, John Golden,
Tom Creavy, Willie Kline, Abe and AL
Espinosa, Tony Manero, Paul Runyan
and many other professionals whose
names are by-words wherever golf is
played.
0N the Monday preceding the Ma
~ tional Capital open tourney the
Kenwood Club plans to stage a
36-hole tournament for amateur golfers
IN the middle Atlantic section. This
Will be called the tournament of club
champions and will be limited to club
tltle-holders from clubs in Virginia and
Maryland. A member of the club has
donated handsome trophy for this
tourney, which will usher in the week
OF the National Capital open.
Amateur golfers with handicaps of
four strokes or less will be permitted
to play in the Kenwood open. The
field will be limited to $50 players.
one hundred and forty-six played last
year in the event, which was won By
Willie MacFarlane The low so and
ties on Saturday, November II, will
play the S6-hole final on Sunday, No.
vember 13.
U TENWOOD officials, elated with the
N success of last years tournament
over course then only a few
months old, have made elaborate
preparations for the renewal of the
classic. The entire course has been
carefully groomed over the last two
months and will be treated like a new
born child during the two months
which elapse before the 1882 event will
be staged
Fairways have been diSked, narrowed
and planted. New tees and bunkers
have been built and the entire layout
will be in far better shape than last
year.
An entry fee of IS will be charged all
contestants in the event. Entries will
close at 4 pm. November 9.
A MOTHER angle Of the Kenwood
N tourney is that in all likelihood,
If Kenwood officials want it, the
club on River road can have the
national P. G.. A. tourney In 1898. This
already has been hinted several times,
and now has reached the stage where
Kenwood can have the tourney il 1t
raises the sl1 900 necessary to guaran-
tee the financial success for the
P. G. A. In case Kenwood does not
hold the P. G. A. tourney in 1888 the
ante for the 1888 National Capital open
probably will be boosted from $4,000
to S5,00O