Evening star., 1934-03-06
CHEVY CHASE PRO
DUEFOR BIG YEAR
Masters Knack of Playing
in Wind to Fortify Him for
Competition Here.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

b1 w. H. MCS hLLtM vi.
NOB BARNETT, the Chevy
x Chase pro, who holds
| J down the Winter berth at
the ritzy and splendid
Indian Creek Club of Miami
Beach, is coming back to Wash
ingtOn less than month hence
with new, shiny golf game, all
FURNISHED up and ready to
spring on his brothers of the
brasSie and niblick.
Bob has been working on his game
this Winter and even though he
hasn't had time for much actual play
he has spent many an hour on the
practice tee, and has all his shots
working perfectly, preparing for a
big season of competition around
Washington
Tanned by the sun to deep brown
and looking better than in several
years Bob showed what he can do
with his golf game last week at In
dian Creek
We had round with him over that
great golf course. one of the best in
the East. and watched Robert shoot
fiat 70 in a young gale of wind, a
score that should by all the gods of
golf have been a 68. For Bob, using
the wind like master. PLAYED flaw
less golf until he took on the
eighteenth hole which he usually
reaches with two shots. He needed a
for a So. but he pushed his tee shot
into an expanse of sand and shells
and was unable to reach the green.
Over all the preceding distance Bar
nett played as few professionals can
play, forcing the wind to help him
instead OF fighting it and putting like
Jones at his best. You can be assured
that Bob Barnett is coming back to
Washington ready to put on a stiff
scrap for professional laurels around
the Capital during the coming season
TINE Indian Creek course is $500
yards long. and is located on
man-made island out in Bis
cayne Bay, about miles northeast of
the city of Miami Just to give an
idea of the way they spent money in
making it. the island alone cost a
million dollars. before they ever start
ed to build a golf course or the club
house-the most magnificent golf
structure We ever have seen-or to
plant one of the thousands or cocoa
nut palms which fringe the fairways
And what a golf course it is. Lo-
Gated only short distance from the
ocean it always is swept by a wind
usually wind Of 20 miles an hour or
more. 1t is beautifully trapped and
all in all is one of the best tests of
the game anywhere.
o. B. Keeler, erstwhile Boswell TO
Bobby Jones, walked around the
course with Barnett and said he never
had seen in this country a course
which is so comparable to the British
seaside courses.
That Is the layout where Barnett is
furnishing up his golf game. If any
tournaments are to be played around
Washington in a big wind, watch
Robert. He knows how to play the
wind. With breeze off the left. he
cuts the ball down the wind. With
breeze off the right. he hits a wide
hook, always using the wind to help
him; never fighting it.
1.-TWO matches have been arranged
between the fair golfers Of the
Country Club of Virginia and
the Chevy Chase Club, and in all
probability another match will be ar
ranged between an all-Richmond team
against an Washington aggrega-
ton. On May Is the Chevy Chase
women will entertain the Country
Club team at Chevy Chase, With a re-
q nj to 81
so later. The match between teams
representing the two cities is to be
played at a later date according to
Mrs. John S. Martin. chairman of the
Womens Committee of the Country
Club.
Local golf courses. still soft and
soggy. after coming out from their
snow blanket. are due to be in excel
lent condition for the weekend, with
a flock of golfers ready to try them
out after more than a month of mac
tivlty. Several of the courses are
closed, but will be opened before Sat-
urday, barring more rain.
ID GLAND MACKENZIE, the new
N congressional pro. Is getting
ready for big season He un-
leashed his war clubs yesterday and
romped over nine holes of the Con-
eressional layout in 33 strokes scor-
ing an eagle 3 on the eighth hole
and picking up two brides in a game
with Luther Steward. jr., the club
champion, and Andy Walker. Roland
drove the eighteenth green. a feat
seldom achieved these days under
prevailing ground conditions.
Mrs. ]. Marvin Haynes of Columbia
the District title holder is in Florida
and intends to make the swing along
the Winter circuit with the women
who annually play the tournaments in
the South. She is playing at Belleair
today, a fine course near the little
town of Clearwater. and will travel
North with the women, playing in all
the events through the North and
South championship at Pinehurst.