Evening star., 1933-06-30
CLOUTERS Off TEE
WILL HAVE INNING
Long Holes to Be Only Drive
and Pitch as FairWays
Become Baked.
season for low scoring on
golf courses around Wash
/ ington is at hand. A few

TIME season Tor low scoring on
golf courses around Wash
/ ington is at hand. A few
days of hot sun and drying
fairWays will soon bring reports OF
par and sub-par scores from those
who hit the ball so far they con-
vert 400-yard holes into drive and
mashie -niblick affairs, and who
look upon par S holes as legiti-
mate birdie possibilities.
There have been lots OF fine
scores made around Washington
this year, but the real orgy of low
scoring has hardly started. 1t will
start and keep on going when the
first week of really hot weather
hits the the city without bringing
in its wake the Summer showers
that slow up golf courses.
It's the time for the youngsters. and
the men who hit EN- mile from the
tee; these days of Midsummer when
the rough is sparse and short and golf
balls can be scattered all over the
landscape without getting into a great
deal of trouble. Already there have
been good many fine scores made this
year, but when July turns the corner
the real low-scoring battle will be on
in earnest. 1t is during that month
when FAST hard fairways combine with
we'll watered greens to make for ideal
scoring conditions. If green's commit
tees did not water putting greens until
late In the afternoon and left them
fast and hard during the day the scor-
ing would not be so easy for the gents
who fling a maShie shot up to a dis
tant pin and watch it bite in for the
birdie, but the tendency these days
seems to make the green play the ball
without much regard to how it is hit
And that being the case, low scores can
be looked for
Keep Greens in Shape.
IF putting greens were not watered
SO much the game would take more
skill. in the opinion of Fred Nc
Leod. veteran Columbia pro, but
Freddie is satisfied to let the cards lay
as they fall and play the game as tbs
courses are kept nowadays Neverthe-
less Freddie claims that If more run
up shots and sharply cut pitch shots
were necessary the game would be more
interesting than 1t Is in these days of
well-watered green's when any kind of
shot will stick on the damp putting
surfaces.
Phenomenal distance can be obtained
when fairwayS really get hard around
Washington. We have seen a ball
driven within two yards of the sixteenth
green at Chevy Chase, and within a
few yards of the first green. We have
seen the eighth green reached from
the middle tee on the same course.
and repeatedly We have seen the lengthy
sixteenth hole at Indian Spring reached
IN two shots when hard fairways in
vited the long hitters to cut loose. Par
I holes of around 440 yards become
mere drive and pitch affairs when the
big boys really land on the ball on these
hard fairways Of Midsummer, when
drives of 800 yards are commonplace
and when a par hole which Is really
. test in the Spring becomes 4 drive
and a medium iron shot Yes, the
orgy of low scoring comes on the heels
of hard fairways. It won't be long
now before tales of SIS and 6ss begin
drifting in and when even your ordi-
nary golfer begins to tell of how he
drove 800 yards on the sixth.