Evening star., 1938-12-19
Big Building Program
Planned for Links
Here Next Year
Work on Privote, Public
Plants to Be Greatest
Undertaken Since rs
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Golf course improvement and
course construction around the Cap
ital Is due for boom in 1899 if all
the improvements proposed for a
half-dozen courses go through next
year.
Foremost among the extensive i'm
provements is the proposed new 49,
hole course at Congressional Coun-
try Club, where Witty Cox, the club
pro, has mapped a completely new
layout to give that club 36 holes of
golf.
Among the private clubs, Kenwood
and Army Navy are going in for
more course construction work, while
new public course for colored will
open at Deanwood, D. c.: nine
hole layout will be started at Fort
Dupont, in Southeast Washington,
and East Potomac Park, oldest mu-
nicipal layout in the city, is due for
some face lifting.
The rest of the private clubs will
stand pat on their time-tested lay
outs. notably Chevy Chase and Co.
lumbia, which have modern fairway-
water courses.
Greatest Expansion Since rs.
Not since the years between 1922
and 1925, when four private clubs
now operating came into existence,
in wild expansion of golf facilities,
has there been so much course con-
struction on the fire as may take
place in 1899. 1t bears out the
thought of Witty Cox, who says the
Capital is veritable hot bed of golf
and is surprised to find that city
where so much golf is played hasn t
turned out national champion.
For years the only course open to
colored has been a dinky little lay
out near the Lincoln Memorial. But
next spring a new course to be
opened in Deanwood, north of Ben
ming road. will provide people OF
the colored race with golf facilities
equal to the best. This course will
be included in the operating lease to
come up for award next Thursday
at the National Park Service Office
A new nine-hole course in Fort
Dupont Park, to be started next year
will provide golf facilities for the
southeastern sector of the city, in
addition to the Fairlawn course in
Anacostia Park.
East Potomac Plans Vast.
The face lifting process at East
Potomac Park hinges on whether
S. G. Leofier, grandpappy of local
public golf, again gets the contract
for operation of East Potomac, q
ajor part of the Leoffler enterprises
Plans for reconstruction of many of
the greens and rebuilding of most
of the tees loom for consummation
next spring if Leoffler receives the
award.
Kenwood, where Witty Cox started
reconstruction work before he went
to Congressional early this year
plans to build a new seventeenth
green, in addition to lengthening the
fifteenth and sixteenth holes. The
latter hole, in particular, will become
quite two-shotter, under plans re-
vealed by Professional George Diff
fenbaugh. Ground west of the pres.
ent seventeenth green has beer
cleared in preparation for the con-
struction work, to get under way ir
the spring.
Army Navy, with a new 18-hole
course now in use, is continuing con-
struction work on a third nine tc
end in the valley where the old first
hole crossed over to an elevated
green.
All in all, Notwithstanding that
no new clubs are contemplated, the
construction program is the biggest
in many years in golf around Wash
ington.