Evening star., 1934-06-02
"a OR 81 LIKELY
TO GAIN FIRST 16
Course Is Regarded as Five
Strokes Tougher Than
Most Layouts.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

A NEW high in scoring IN
n golf tournaments locally
~ is likely to be set in the
4 \ initial invitation event of
the Beaver Dam Country Club,
which is to start next Tuesday
over the lengthy Landover
course.
Beaver Dam, provided hot weather
does not bake out the fairways be-
tore the qualifying round, will play
rs just about the longest golf course
around the Capital during the COM
ing tournament and scores of "a or
IS are more than likely to make the
first fiight-sofnething that Is seldom
seen these days as group Of hard
hitting youngsters start figuring on 72s
the moment they leave the first tee.
Any score below rs probably will
grab of the medal in that forth
coming affair, for lot of golfers who
wallop the pill around shorter courses
in rs and better are going to find
themselves up around 30 over that
slugger's layout. Beaver Dam is the
one course around Washington on
which 10 has only recently been
broken. For years no one even got
as low as 10 until Clif Spencer, the
home club pro, belted the ball around
the Landover layout in 10 last Octo-
ber, only to have that mark eclipSed
two weeks ago by Martin F. Nc
Carthy, when the black-haired club
champion scored a SO.
The Beaver Dam course stretches
out to a distance of more than 6,700
yards and every yard of 1t is feet
long. On few stetches of that course
are there a flock of "leveling" holes,
spots where an occasional birdie may
be picked up by an accurate niblick
pitch. Indeed. If the fairways are
fairly slow there are only two or
three holes on the layout where the
pitching clubs may be used for the
second shot, even by the longest
hitters.
You Have to Hit EN-.
THE big men who pole 'em a mile
from the tee will find more use
for their No. and No. irons
than they ever have had before when
they start to lay 'em on the line out
there at Beaver Dam And the course
we'll soaked by several days of rain,
is not likely to be baked. More than
probably it will be soft and the ball
will get little run of the tee shots.
Beaver Dam has more par 4 holes
of more than 400 yards than any
course around Washington, holes
where the long iron shots must be
firmly and accurately hit to enable
any golfer (no matter how good he
may be) to get his par. Brides are
few and far between out there, even
when q fellows putter gets hot, and
the par holes are no set-ups. All
in all that Beaver Dam layout rates
as just about the hardest scoring golf
course about Washington. This will
be reflected in the scores turned in
next week. They won't burn up that
lengthy golf course, no matter how
good they are.
This same Martin Mccarthy, whom
they used to call Bulldog Mac" when
he was a star sandlot base ball player,
has better than the usual chance to
grab of the initial invitation tourna-
ment of his home club. One Of the
most consistent players around Wash
ington for three or four years. Nc
Carthy has been stymied in several
recent Journeys by Indifferent putting,
but he knows what to do with 'em at
Beaver Dam and is going to be a
rough, rugged competitor for all the
boys whom he meets. A scrapper OF
the first water, the Mccarthy gent
can take it and give plenty. Twould
be q fitting finale to Beaver Dams
first tournament to see the popular
gent with the Irish monicker cop that
event.