Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
ALL THESE HOLES
WILL Be CHANGED
Two of Big improvements
TO Come at 0utSet--Work
Not to Upset Play.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.
DREPARED to embark on a pro-
- gram of rehabilitation Of the
woods" nine, the Greens Com
. - mittee Of the Manor Club and
"Rube" Hines, the club greenkeeper
are lining up plans for construction
: work in the Fall which will realign
the first nine at Manor and transform
, several of the holes into better tests
of golf.
The entire program, according to
Hines. can be handled during the Fall
and will be completed without incon-
venience to the members or Interrupt
ton of normal play for more than a
week.
Under the program, the old first
hole, now a dog-leg affair, will be
eliminated almost entirely, as will the
old second hole, and one completely
new hole will be constructed, while
changes will be made In all the other
holes on the nine.
For years visitors have commented
on the possibility for fine hole that
DS OuI Va d
of the old first and second holes by
playing the first hole to what now Is
the second green. That change will
be made under the plans for recon-
struction, and the first hole will be
made into a drive and pitch Of about
$50 yards by. using the second green
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THE present second hole will bt
abandoned, and in its place the
present third hole will become the
second hole, played from a tee farther
back in the woods to stretch the hole
out to about 400 yards. The present
fourth, now a short two-shotter of
about 285 yards, will become the third
81 of the new course and will be changed
to a testing one-shotter of around
go yards, played from the top Of the
hill near the present third green.
No major construction changes will
be necessary here except for build
Ing of a new tee. The present fifth
will become the fourth under the new
alignment, played much the same II
now is played, with the exception
that 1t will be made much longer. A
new tee will be built back in the woods,
making a long and straight tee shot
essential to reach the bend in the
woods where the dog-leg will be
opened up for a lengthy iron shot to
the green guarded by ditch in front.
An entirely new fifth hole will be
constructed with a new tee back In
the woods behind the present fifth
green.
The hole will be played to a new
green. to be located about on the
site of the water cooler near the sixth
tee. making a hole around l65 yards
in length with carry across water
hazard
New Green for Sixth.
THE sixth hole will be played
straight up the present sixth fair
way to a new green to be built far
back in the woods behind the present
sixth. Part of the old No. l fairway
will be used in remaking this hole,
which will be about AS yards in
length and may even be stretched out
to become a par affair. The seventh
hole will be played as at present, but
from new tee far back in the trees.
stretching the hole out to around 400
yards in length and converting 1t from
a drive and short pitch to drive and
medium iron hole. A new tee at the
present eighth will convert that hole
from a simple little pitch shot of $50
yards into lengthy iron shot hole
around 1870 yards.
The ninth will be played as it now
Is played. Par for the new nine will
be IS, and while the changes are be-
ing made Manor members will have
an 18-hole course to play without in
terruption. Manor is one of the few
clubs in this sector which has 81 holes
Of golf.