Evening star., 1932-04-10

CrOpnleS, are uSLed Dy Cne COL
Committee of the Chevy Chase
Club for the Spring of 1882. One
Is a woman's event.
The Chevy Chase golf season
will start, as usual, with the COM
petition for the French High Com
mission Cup, with the 80 low net
scores to qualify during the period
which started yesterday and will
end on April %.
The men who make the 80 best net
scores in that time will be paired and
then will play of at handicap match
play on the basis of Seyen-eighths of
the difference in their respective handi-
caps The first match play round is
listed for April 25, 26 or 27, the second
match play round will be held April
%, 20 or 80 and the third round of
match play will be staged May or 3.
Semi finals viii be played May 4 or 5
with the final round scheduled for May
6 or 7. Matches in this event are to
start not later than 2:30 pm.
The Spring invitation tourney, for
the Taft and Sherman trophies, will be
played May II, 18, 10 and 20. This
event will be open to members of the
Of the two large invitation Journeys to
be held around the Capital this Spring.
MAY 80 the members of the Chevy
4'1 Chase Club will compete in an
18-hole handicap match play
against par event for the Victor Kauff-
mann Memorial day trophy. Contest
ants in this event may use seven
eighthS of their handicaps.
The HorStmann Memorial Cup tour
ney, which is the club championship, is
scheduled for June 81, %, 90 and 80
at 72 holes medal play, from scratch.
A single round of 18 holes will be
played on each of the dates named,
with the competitor having the lowest
score for the 72 holes winning the
Horstmann Cup and the club title The
Horstmann Cup commentaries the
name of one of the fine golfers who
played at Chevy Chase two decades
ago, F. Oden Horstmann, a man who
played fine golf and was highly popu-
lar figure at the club.
The women's tourney for the French
High Commission Cup will be played
May 81, June 2, 3, and at handicap
match play. A qualification round will
be played May 81, with the I6 low net
scores to be paired for the succeeding
match play rounds, which will be con-
tested en- the basis of seven-eighths of
the difference in handicaps.
In addition to these events listed for
members Of the Chevy Chase Club, Mrs
Frank Royer Keefer, president Of the
District Women's Golf Association. has
put up trophy to be competed foI
by members Of the District women's
association at Chevy Chase on April
Is and IS. This win be a 3e-hole
handicap medal play event. The Coli
Committee of the Chevy Chase Club for
1882 is composed Of Robert Stead, jr.
chairman; A McCook Dunlop, C. Ash
mead Fuller and Richard P. Davidson
EOR nearly two years the members
l. Of the Congressional Country Club
have looked over toward the south
from the fairway at the lengthy tenth
hole of the Congressional course and
have seen over there on a sunny hill
side well built putting green seem
ingly inviting well hit shots toward
its expansive surface. But they have
not been able to play on or toward
it nor from a new tee which is located
Just west of the new green. Early
next month they will be allowed to
play to this inviting stretch of golfing
country, for the new tenth and ele-
venth holes at Congressional-and in
viting looking affairs they are-will
be thrown open for the first time on
May 4, when a gala opening of the
Congressional golf season will mark the
formal opening of the new part Of the
course and abandonment of the 623-
yard tenth hole. a hole which has
caused countless buffers endless spasms
of agony. A program of golf events
starting early in the morning and
continuing all day has been billed by
the Golf Committee to signalize the
opening of the two holes and to mark
the cracking open of the golf season
at the club.
The fair golfers will compete in a
tourney from o'clock until noon. Dur
ing the afternoon while a mems tour
ney is scheduled women members will
compete in a pitching and putting
contest. The mems event will start at
noon. AS an added feature of the day,
those playing in the mems event will
also qualify for the clubs ladder" "
a new individual competition to be
inaugurated this year The day will
wind up with a driving contest for
men.
THE new tenth and eleventh holes
i were built in the Fall Of 1880 By
Donald Ross, constructor Of the
Pinehurst courses, Of the Indian
Spring course, and one of the best
known golf architects in the country
The tenth will play about 440 yards
with a par of 4 and the fairway will
cut across the old tenth fairway. Sandy
Armour says it will play about the
distance of drive and No 2 iron fol-
fairly long hitters, although it looks
shorter than that Part of the old
tenth hole will become the fairway for
the new eleventh, with the green Of
the old tenth to become the green for
the new eleventh. This will be dog
leg affair Of about 430 yards, with a
par of 4. The present eleventh will
become the twelfth and so on to the
present short sixteenth, which will be
entirely abandoned
Although the length of the nine, with
the two new holes, will be greater thar
that Of the present nine, the par viii
be lower. The old tenth is a par 6 af.
fair, while the new tenth and eleventh
holes will both be par As The change
will bring the last nine down to par
of 35 from 36 and course par Of u in
stead Of 73. Total yardage for the
Congressional layout will be increased
from $3.50 to 6.657. The old tenth anc
sixteenth holes measure a total of 73S
yards, while the new tenth and eleventh
holes which will take their places, will
measure $40 yards.
An informal dinner III the evening
will wind up the days activities, witt
prizes TO be presented to the success
ful contestants for the days play.