Evening star., 1941-11-09
None in District Up
To 5 Rating, Ayers
Association Head
Some Refuse to Submit
Their Best Scores,
Mrs. Weible Holds

Feminine golfers. members of the
active Women's District Golf ASSo-
citation. have more than the usual
busy of-season period ahead for
them if all the fuss currently being
made about handicap results in ac-
ton by the association.
Mrs. Walter L. Weible. president
OF the association, thinks there
should be action which would revise
handicaps upward So does Mrs
Betty P. Meckley, Maryland state
champion. 1-handicap player, and
probably the most consistent golfer
around town over 10-year stretch
MANY of our courses have in
correct par ratings" says Mrs.
Weible. practically all of them
should be remeaSured. I am sure
this will bring the par ratings down
and the handicapS up.
= Il do not think we have a woman
golfer around Washington who con-
sistently can play to better than a
five handicap against a correctly
measured course" says Mrs. Neck
ley. Yet Mrs. Meckley and Mrs.
Myron Davy, the new Middle At
lantic champion. both have ratings
of single stroke. They do not
play consistently to this rating. If
they did. for example Mrs. Meckley
would play Kenwood, her home
course, in IA all the time, and Mrs.
Davy would play Columbia in IT,
Women's par for Kenwood and Co.
lumbia is 73 and 76
withhold Best Scores.
Arrayed against the thought Of
these women is the attitude. as de-
scribed by Mrs. Weible, of some
women who. she says, refuse to turn
In their low scoring cards because
they fear their handicaps will be
lowered. 1--WE have many cases Of
that says the association presi-
dent. MANY of our players do not
turn in their best scores"
Mrs Weible would have the
courses of all member clubs of the
Womens District Golf Association
remeasured as quickly as possible.
and would go over the handicap
list with fine tooth comb to insure
more accurate handicapping next
year. Par for the 13 member clubs
is as follows: Argyle, 76; Army
Navy, 76; Belle Haven, IS: Beaver
Dam. IT: Columbia, 76 Chevy Chase,
IT: Congressional, II; Kenwood. 73:
Woodmont, IT, Manor, IA: Indian
Spring. IS; Washington, IS; Ban
nockburn. IS
Most OF these par ratings are
too high" says Mrs. Weible 1--WE
base our handicap system on the
system used by the United States
Golf Association. This provides for
the average best scores with 80
per cent of the difference between
that average and the average of
par. But when the par is too high
the handicaps are too high"
Take Opposite Views.
Mrs. Meckley claims that her
handicap of l stroke is ridiculously
low compared with the handicaps
of feminine golfers in her class from
other cities.
But Mrs. Myron Davy, a 1-stroke
handicap player (she is nearly a
scratch golfer) is pleased with her
low handicap and would like to
lower it. She plays more golf in
outside tournaments than any other
local woman, and she says her low
handicap here obtains desirable
pairings for her in outside events.
Some of the fuss now going on
has to do with scores made by a
couple of the top linkswomen around
town which. it seems, we're not
turned in for handicap purposes
There's little doubt that a genuine
attempt will be made during the
winter to remeasure the courses ac-
curately and bring about revision
of handicaps.