Evening star., 1939-02-12
New Federal Project
To Be 6,800.Yard
Wooded Links
Construction Scheduled
In Near Future; Work
Begun at Dupont
Nv WALTER McCALLUM.

Another 9-hole golf course which
ultimately will be heightened to l8
holes, to be constructed on Govern
ment-owned property near Fort
Hunt in nearby Virginia, will be
under construction within a few
months, the National Capital Parks
office announced last night.
At the same time the parks office
announced that work already has
begun on the Fort Dupont Park
course, one of the chain OF public
courses included in the Leoff1er or
ganization Civilian Conservation
Corps workers are clearing brush
and woods in the Fort Dupont area
preparing for the construction of the
first link in the Dupont course, which
ultimately will replace the Fairlawn
course in Anacostia Park.
Hunt Course to Be Ideal.
The Fort Hunt course, which is in
the formative stage and exists only
on maps in the drafting room OF the
parks office, will run around $500
yards in length, with the first link
In the new layout to measure around
S.40O yards. 1t will be constructed
on ground lying southeast of the fort,
which virtually has been abandoned
for military purposes.
The course will be built by c. c. G.
workers. In its embryo state the
operation of the Fort Hunt layout
has not been determined. 1t may
become another link in the Leoff1er
chain of public courses, or it may be
operated by the National Capital
Parks office.
The Fort Hunt course will be built
over ideal golf terrain, slightly roll
ing and cut up with woods and water
hazards.
Workers Busy at Dupont.
Over in the high country at Fort
Dupont, C. C. c. workers now are
busy clearing fairWay sites for. the
layout, which probably will be put
in use in the spring of 1941. AS eX-
planned at the Office of the park
service, the Fort Dupont layout will
be started as 9-hole course, ultl-
matelv heightened to l8 holes, to
include part of the property now IN
the AnacoStia course, and the latter
layout will be abandoned as soon as
the Fort Dupont course is in play.
The Dupont course will be the
longest public course in Washington
measuring approximately 5000 yards.
It will answer the prayer of public
linksmen for a rolling layout with
ample length, something they do
not now have here. To be built over
rugged terrain, many of the fairWays
of the Dupont course will be cut
through dense woods. Many of the
holes will be rolling, but the drafts
men have avoided in so far as posi-
BILE abrupt slopes from which ball
might kick" into the enshrouding
woods.
Modern Greens Are Planned.
The Fort Hunt course will be
located Just off the Mount Vernon
Boulevard, and in its projected state
looms as one of the best of the pay
as-you-play courses around Wash
ington. Plans for both courses pro-
vide for lengthy tees, permitting in
creasing or decreasing the yardage.
The Fort Dupont course, for example,
will be little more than 6400 yards
long from the front tees and nearly
1000 yards in length from the back
tees.
Putting greens on both courses
will be built in conformity with
modern course construction stand
ards.
Both the Fort Hunt and Fort Du-
pont courses are developments of
the future. but they assure Washing
ton of ample public golf development.
The Fort Hunt course may not be
completed until 1912. and the Fort
Dupont layout. even if part of it can
be finished within two years, will not
be completely ready for play be-
fore 1o41.