Evening star., 1932-12-01
CLUB PRO PRAISES
FINE TWO-SHOTTER
Trying Layout Built After
Officer in Plane Finds
Likely Terrain.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

~ UTSTANDING among the
several fine holes on
~ Army-Navy Country Clubs
bunke-less gclf layout
even among the testing two-shot-
tiers on the ether courses around
Washington-is the third. It is
by far the best Of the many that
challenge the ingenuity and skill
of the golfng gents who play at
the service club across the Po-
tonac.
This is the opinion of j. Munro
Hunter, professional at the club.
Hunter has played many Of the
leading golf courses of the world
and is in a position to know
good hole when he sees it.
Back in 1929. when Maj Dick New
man, United States Cavalry, was under
orders from Mai Gen. Charles P. SUM-
neral, then chief of staff, U. S. A., to
lay out golf course on the club prop
erty as quickly as possible, he saw from
an airplane where little creek made
a bend around what is now the third
green and visualized from thousand
feet in the air putting surface tucked
away in that bend. Out of that aerial
view came the best two-shotter on the
course.
IN the view Of some of the golfers of
i the club however, full advantage
1a1g v1A4l laN, folr Nf fl,n sI,S
ties of terrain and hazards to make it
even better Some of the more ardent
golfers believe if the tee was swung
around some $50 yards to the east and
the fairway run south parallel with
road which forms a boundary of the
club property to make it a dog-leg af-
fair Of about the present length of $50
yards, it would make even more
sporting hole.
AS it stands now, though, it is rug
ged enough for any one. At the left of
the fairTay stretches patch Of woods,
which is "out of bounds" At the right
stretches a strip of rough from which
it virtually is impossible to knock ball
onto the green But up around the
green the fullest use has been made of
the creek This little body of water
makes bend to the west, then
turns south. In that bend has been
built the putting green.
Even without fianking traps or other
hazards that green is one Of the hard
est to reach in Of any of the putting
greens on two-shot holes around Wash
ington. With the wind from the south
or southwest, the second shot some
times becomes wooden club shot. Even
at best. it is more often than not a
full bang with a mashie.
or the one-shotters or the course,
~ and there are the conventional
four of them, the seventeenth
ranks, IN Hunters opinion. as the finest.
The ninth and tenth are fair holes,
but they are considered in the light of
makeshift5 against the time when new
and permanent ones can be built up a
hillside stretching to the club house.
with the ninth green and tenth tee
closer to the hou5e.
The seventeenth needs only a little
trapping at the left side to make it
very strong one-shotter Not SO long
from point of distance Git is only 180
yards from the back tee), this hole has
a big green and is played over level ter
ritory. But the tee shot must be long
enough to carry ditch few yards in
front of the green, and it must be kept
away from the right side. There's
plenty of room at the left. but a ball
hit TO the right can go down into
clump of trees or into ditch-in fact,
almost anywhere. For the ground all
slopes that way.
The Army-Navy Country Club course,
at present the cnly one anywhere
around Washington without single
bunker, may lose It's bunkerless status
soon il plans being worked cut by the
Greens Committee materialize. In or
der to speed up play the committee is
planning TO install traps at the back of
the fourth and eighth greens. A ball
which gees over those green's now can
involve a lot of lost time. Bunkers
there would serve to catch balls that
normally would go far down the slope
behind the greens similar device has
saved a lot of time on the second hole
at Washington. where similar conditions
prevail
ID GLAND MACKENZIE, who played
N in the recent Miami -Biltmore
tournament, is on his way to Cali
fornia with Mrs. Mackenzie to spend
the early part of the Winter. Roland
probably will play in a few Of the tour
naments on the Pacific Coast, among
them the San Francisco match play
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