Evening star., 1933-01-06

tougher from many angles, but
that eighteenth hole at the
Manor Club course, where it seems
likely the amateur championship Sec
tional qualifying tests will be played
next Summer, is the hardest Of all the
par holes on the layout.
That's what Al Treder the club pro-
fessional, thinks, and most of the
members agree with Al that the eight
eenth is the hardest par 4 of the IL
two-shot holes on that fine golf course.
The eighteenth is not the longest nor
is it the most fornlidable-lookingf from
the tee, but Treder holds it is by long
odds the hardest to play in regulation
figures. That eighteenth hole measures
only 365 yards from the middle of the
tee to the middle Of the green. but the
tee shct is so hard and the second shot
so tight that it takes two perfect shots
to get home.
TREDER rates the seventeenth as the
l. finest one-shot hole on the course
not only because of its length OF
225 yards, but because of the trouble
that abounds at right and left of the
green. AS the seventeenth now stands
1t Is hard enough. but it could be made
a harder and certainly a more pic
turesque hole by dropping in small
trap at the short left edge of the green
and opening up the right-hand corner,
forcing the play to the right center of
that putting green. Manor has sew
eral picturesque and outstanding one
shot holes, notably the second and the
eleventh, but Treder rates the seven
teenth as the top one-shotter. The
main feature of the second, which
plays as a long mashie shot of 155
yards, is a huge trap which sticks out
directly in front of the green, behind
which the pin usually is ensconced.
The eleventh is a water hole Of spade
mashie distance, playing about 140
yards in length from the back tee,
hard by John Crockett's front yard.
"yXTHY do you rate the eighteenth as
Wv the best two-shotter?" we asked
Treder
Because of the difficulty of the shots
that are needed to reach the green
in the right number of strokes" the
blonde Manor mentor replied. I'm the
first place the right place for the tee
shot Is at the left side, and far enough
out to open up the full width of the
green for long pitch. 1t must be
hit 225 yards or more if the hole is
to be opened up for the second shot
There's an out-of-boundS area at the
right, and a big trap to catch the
hopefuls who try to carry the corner
And If you hit your tee shot too far
to the left you can't get home with the
second shot. Your tee shot must be
little to the left and must be long to
open up the green. But even there
your troubles have just started At
the right corner of the green there's
little trap, just wee bit of an affair
which looks even smaller from the tee
shot. But it's surprising how many
balls that little trap catches.
THE opening at the front of the
l. green isn't very wide and a ball
that rolls onto that putting green must
be hit as straight as die. The proper
shot is a high pitch. but to get that
high pitch you have to hit very long
tee shot. Yes. that eighteenth is a
fine hole. I think it would fit we'll
into any list of the best holes around
Washington. The green, you know, is
built up. 1t drops away on three sides
so that if you go over, you haven't only
a little chip shot. You've got to play
a short pitch if you hope to get a 4
And 1t comes at the end of the round,
where a score or a match may depend
on it. It's fine finishing hole The
fifth looks harder, the thirteenth and
fourteenth are longer, but they don't
seem TO me to be as hard as the
eighteenth"
OUCH long hitters as Harry Pitt,
~ Bruno" Nee and Billy Dettweiler
usually play the seventeenth with a
spoon or No. l iron, but for your
ordinary Manor golfer the hole is a
full wallop with his biggest club. The
green is built up a few feet above the
fiat fairway and the hole looks cinch
TO play But off there at the left is a
big bunker about 180 yards from the
tee, and the fringe of woods at the
right usually catches the ball hit in
that direction. The green is of ample
size but woe to the man who knocks
one off the line. His par will then
be no set-up and he will have lot Of
trouble getting a T. For the long
hole has no particular difficulty, for
there is nothing much by way of trouble
behind the green
One day soon Dave Thomson and his
greens committee associates are going
to add lot of extra length to the
Manor Club course by pushing the fifth
and sixth greens back. The fifth will
become a three Sfotter with the second
shot to carry the ditch in back of
which the present green is located. The
sixth. nov drive and pitch hole will
become lengthy two-shotter Of about
440 yards, with a green to be built up
between the first green and the seventh
tee. The first nine at Manor now
measures less than 1900 yards in
length. With these improvements it
will 90 above the 3000-Vard marx and
the course will be stretched out to a
length of about $500 yards. making it
more nearly standard in yardage.