Evening star., 1941-06-20
Part Of New Layout
To Be Opened in Fall
Jamison, Pro, Says
Stretching $500 Yards,
Links Will Be Par 70;
Maryland Meet Sturts
By WALTER McCALLUM.

country in Montgomery County, Mo,
hard by the comparatively new fair
ways of the old National Women'S
Country Club, new golf course is
being carved. Al Jamison, profess
sional at the Bradley Hills Country
Club, who is building the course
which will be incorporated with some
of the old holes at Bradley Hills,
optimistically says the new layout
will be ready next fall. Probably 1t
will be safer to say it will be ready
for play in the spring of 1912.
Few of the members of the Brad
lev Hills Club, which succeeded the
old National Women's Club in the
winter of 1939- 1910, know that some
thing good in the way of new golf
course is about to emerge from the
chrySalis of weed-covered, mud
dy fairways and embryo putting
greens. But you have JamlSons
word for it that the course Will be
ready for play-in part at least
within a few months, and will be
ready in its entirety by next spring.
Will Measure $500 Yards.
Salient facts on the new layout
of the Bradley Hills Club are these:
1t will be $500 yards in length, with
a par of TO- 1t will have on the
second nine, as the 14th hole, Wash
ingtonS longest par-5 affair, a 500
ward hole which cannot be reached
in two shots, according to JamiSon.
1t will also have one of the best
looking groups of one-shot holes we
have seen. Putting greens now are
being planted to Washington bent.
Seven holes of the present nine
will be used when the new 18-hole
course is put in use, with both mines
to end at the club house. The finish
ing hole will be the heightened
fourth. a hole which happens to be
a good test of accuracy with the
pitching clubs.
Il admit it is hard to visualize
a golf course without seeing actual
fairWays,' said Jamison. But I
think we have something pretty
good here" Well second that, after
a quick look over the new parts of
the course. The old nine hole course
was good, as is any course built by
Fred Finlay, one of the lesser known
masters of the art of constructing
good courses. But the new holes.
using many of the features used by
Finlay, such as blending the out
lines of the green's into the land
scape. also will be good.
The new parts of the Bradley Hills
course lie north and west of the
clubhouse. The first hole will be
straight west, a two Shotter where
an accurately placed tee shot is
a must. The second hole is a
lengthy one-shotter, around $50
yards from the back tee, and the
third hole is a tough tWo-shotter,
around 425 yards. And so on through
enshrouding pine woods Jamison has
laid out a golf course that now, in
the embryo stage, seems good enough
to take a place with the better lay
outs anywhere.
Finishing Holes Strong.
The finishing holes will be strong.
The 18th is to be a dogleg affair,
with the premium on tee shot ac-
curacy. The 18th will be a one shot
ter around ITO yards played to a
hilltop green. and the 18th will be
a drive and pitch hole played to the
present fourth green right up
against the clubhouse.
But it will be quite a thrill to those
Bradley Hills members when they
run up against the length that will
be part and parcel of that new
course. Their present nine hole
course, played twice. measures only
5,540 yards, with par of 68. The
new one with a par only two shots
higher, needs much more in the
way of golf shots than those drive
and pitch holes of the course of
today
Maryland Tourney Today.
More than a dozen Washington
simon pureS were playing today in
the medal round of the Maryland
State Golf Association amateur
championship at the Baltimore SUBJ
urban Club. Ranked as favoriteS
were Parker Nolan. the 1910 champ;
Gene Pittman, a clubmate of Nolan
from Congressional; Earle Skinker,
of Columbia, and Volney Burnett,
former state champion from Indian
Spring.
Skinker, the Columbia tow head,
who plans to play in the Eastern
interScholastic tourney at Green
wich, Conn, next week. lost the
playoff of a tie for the medal in
the recent Middle Atlantic cham
pionship at Suburban yesterday to
Herbert A. Wagner, jr, of the Bal
timore Country Club. They tied
last week at Hot Springs, Va, with
scores of 73 over a tougher course
than the Suburban layout Wagner
scored rs in yesterdays playoff, with
Skinker taking II.
Dinner to Honor Thomson.
Many of the pros around Wash
ington will play Monday in an in
formal sweepstakes tourney at the
Washington Golf and Country Club,
and later will be the guests of the
club at dinner to honor Dave
Thomson, who has been pro at
Washington for 20 years. A tourney
to be held at the Elkridge Club of
Baltimore. called the Baltimore
Open. scheduled for Monday, has
been postponed until July IA.
Dave Thomson will make one of
his infrequent P. G. A. tournament
appearances. Davie, one of the best
of the Scottish linkSmen, hasn't
played much competitive golf in re-
cent years. But his big moment will
come when Ralph Fowler calls on
Davie for a speech and acceptance
of a gift. Maybe taciturn Dave will
surprise every one and turn out to
be quite an orator Fred Mcleod
did it two years ago, and the Scots
have a habit of rising to an oc-
casion.
Columbia's feminine golfers we're
to play today the third round in
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