Evening star., 1932-12-08
Indian Springs 5th and 18th
Rated Prize 2-ShOt Holes

something like shooting through the
eye Of needle. First there's that
bunker at the right. for that Is the side
to be on to open UP the hole for the
second shot. Then there's that bunker
at the left to catch your second shot.
And If you hit too far to the right the
ball certainly will slide Of that knob
down at the right side. Yes, think
that fifth hole is the outstanding two
shotter on our course. There are 9TH
erS, like the second, and the tenth and
eleventh, but don't think any Of them
take quite as much sheer accuracy as
the NTH"
Diffenbaugh thinks the seventeenth
stands out as the supremely difhcult
one-shotter on that great course, laid
out by Donald Ross back In 1921, stand
ing today essentially as 1t was when it
was turned over to the members in
1922. Few changes have been made in
the Indian Spring course Few were
necessary. for Ross built WELL On the
whole Indian Spring has gone through
less shifting Of green's and less con-
struction work than any course around
Washington, with the sole exception of
Burning Tree. There also hasn't been
single major change since that course
was first opened for play.
"OUR seventeenth Is really tough
~ one-shotter," Diffenbaugh con-
tinued. I've played it under all
conditions, against the wind, with a
following wind and with q cross wind.
Always it has stood out to me as one
OF the finest one-shotters I have seen.
Against the wind I have walloped away
with q driver and been lucky to reach
the front edge Of the green. Down the
wind I have been home with No.
iron. Put the pin up on the knob and
keep 1t out Of the valley and 1t is q
really testing hole. OF course, the right
shot to play up to that hole is q cut
spoon shot, under normal conditions.
But under any conditions it takes all
the skin and ingenuity Of any man to
reach that green In the right figures"
the scene of one of washington's most
unusual golf condolences. Last year
s. B. Miller joined the club on Satur-
day and playing his second round of
golf over the Indian Spring course, he
scored all ace, on the seventeenth, on
the following Saturday. Diffenbaugh
cites that as a record for other golfers
to shoot at. The seventeenth plays 206
yards IN length from the back tee
Other tees make it 1914 yards and 173
yards in length.
r. c. Hubbard of Indian Spring is
setting fast-scoring pace for the other
club members these days, with a series
of birdie 3s on the par thirteenth
hole, that never has been equaled on
that hole or any other par hole
around Washington. Last Sunday he
scored his sixth consecutive birdie on
the thirteenth, hole measuring 1874
yards in length, which normally is a
drive and pitch affair. Each start of
the last six Hubbard either has laid
his second shot close to the hole or has
holed lengthy putt for the birdie.
D GLAND MACKENZIE, who played
N only week ago In the Miami
Biltmore tourney in Florida, is
playing today in the first round of the
San Francisco match play tournament
in California. The former Columbia
Country Club amateur qualified In the
event at Lakeside with a rs, well up on
the list In q field which included only
| few Of the national ranking stars
| Olin Dutra, the California caballero
led the qualifiers with a card Of 70. In
addition to Dutra, the only professional
stars in the tourney are Al Espinosa
Horton Smith and Frank Walsh.
| The other stars such as Sarazen, Ha-
gen, Farrell, Armour, Runyan and Per
kins. have decided to remain In the
East and forego the California tourna-
ments.
John W. HARVEY, Jr., and DR.. L. s
Otell of Indian Spring are looking
forward to a return match with
Volney g. Burnett and Louis Fuchs
another Indian Spring combination
who gave them sound trouncing few
days ago in q match In which both
paifs pan cSs scored wei below par iTh
better ball Of IS, winning by up
against 81 for Harvey and Otell. The
winning combination scored 32-33-65