ASHBURTON CLUB

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 241, 22 July 1948, Page 2

ASHBURTON CLUB

GOLF

NOTES AND COMMENTS (By “Niblick”). Wo avc this week running true to form, for we can start with the usual grumble. It could be a reprimand, because to date the points mentioned have all been ones observed by welltrained golfers. Would all golfers who, by accident or design, wander into a bunker, please smooth out the footmarks. You should enter and leave by the back of'the bunker. * * :j» * * Another giant has fallen —this time our club captain, Leth Algie, who is returning to Wellington. It is doubtful if any member has ever done so much for the the club in so short a time. Much of his work has been back stage, but the present, vitality of the club can be very largely attributed to his untiring efforts. We will miss him and his pipe, and we wish him, well in his new post. Jf: * * * * Saturday was a red'letter day for Cyril Burton. After months of agonising scores, continual excursions into the creek, out of bounds, lost balls, fluffing, slicing and shanking, he played to his handicap. . it • * * * ’ Andy Porter, our blue boy, was not quite up to normal on Saturday. He did not hand in his card. In spite of taking 18 strokes for two holes he was seen to play one good stroke — straight up into the air and straight into the creek. Keith Anderson won the D.C.L. Cup, edging Joe Russell out by one stroke. Keith staggered out in 52, but galloped home in 41. In announcing the victory, Lance Harper appropriately referred to the latent talent of the victor. There was, though, some vague reference to kicking the ball.

The sight of “Niblick” up a tree on Saturday was too much for Secretary Ward. The news was broadcast to the four winds and unfortunately fell on fertile ground. Let it be known he was- up looking for Ted Brophy’s ball —and it was not there, but on the green. * * * * The committee lias received an appeal for golf clubs to be used by returned servicemen patients at Hanmer. Would any" member who has clubs of any calibre he does not use please gife them to a committeeman for dispatch. * * * * * The average golfer drives a ball 200 yards and Jim Allen frequently comes into this class, but on Saturday the distance shrunk to a- minute 20 yards. Even Jack Mcßae was hard put to find an excuse for him. ***** Congratulations to Mrs Bonnington. Her win in the bogey match was a just reward for some solid practice. * * s|i* * sf: ■ The sight of the week was Ernie Easterbrook armed with a putter followed by three yelping canines charging down a drain in pursuit of a rabbit. We all know Ernie caught the said rabbit, but surely the poor thing must have been lame or blind or in isome way equally decrepit. * * * * * Peter Murray staggered us by returning a nett 68 to win the match, but the handicapper staggered him to the tune of two strokes. * * * * This week’s rule —No. 27 (continued from last week) —Ball in casual water on the putting green: “If a ball on a putting green lie in casual water, or if casual water intervene between a ball lying on the putting green and the hole, the ball may be played where it lies, or it may be lifted without penalty and placed in the nearest position to where it lay which is not nearer to the hole and which affords a stroke to the hole without casual water intervening.”

- DRAW FOR SATURDAY (jj The following is the draw for a bogey match to be played on Saturday by the Ashburton Golf Club:— 12.30 p.m.—R. C. McGregor, A. Sutton, L. G. Algie, J. Russell, F. Brown, E. Brophy, O. T. Macer, P. Jackson. 12,40 p.m.—F. R. Porter, R. S. Sheehan, C. Sutherland, M. R. Gilbert, L. C. Naslr, O. C. Hoar, S. H. Truman, W. Haymes. ' 12.50 p.m.—A. S. McGregor, D. F. Cochrane, C. J. Bonnington, J. Allen, S. M. Paine, A.-'M. Sutherland, J. M. Mcßae, J. F. Byrne. 12.55 p.m.—J. Sinclair, G. A. Bain, J. Connor, P. .J. Clark, D. C. Macfarlane, D. Silverwood, J/ H. Dohson, E. W. Wade. . 1 p.m.—S. K. Carswell, N. R. Farrant, I. M. Hamilton, R. W. Orr, W. J. Heenan, R. E. Alexander, V. W. Russell, L. A. Watson. 1.5 p.m.—R. T, Drennan, W. P. Anderson, J. Lane, J. H. Browne, J. A. Lee, C. F. Parsons, H. G. Douglas, W. C. Burton. 1.10 p.m.—A. A. Caithness, D. F. Gane, A. Saunders, G. A. Chatterton, K. L. Anderson, P. Zouch, A. A. McDonald, D. W. Leonard. 1.15 p.m— H. W. Smallbone, S. G. Porter, G. Mazey, J. Pritchard, F. P. Madden, R. G. Ross, O. D. Sewell, O. D. Riddell. 1.20 p.m.—N. Lamont, N. K. Johnston, C. J. Harper, J. A. Porter, A. F. Wells, J. Lee, 11. G. Ferrier, K. G. Nicoll. 1.25 p.m.—L. G. Harper, H. W. Moses, L. A. Charles, H. E. Frew, B. W. Smallbone, R. Oakley, E. R. Easterbrook, Id. D. Johnston.