GOLF.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 25

GOLF.

JOTTINGS FROM THE LINKS.

The course was in ideal condition at the week-end for the second qualifying round of the club championships at Titirangi, but the scoring was rendered extremely difficult by the visitation of severe rain squalls. The best cards returned were those of G. F. Gunson, W. L. Robinson, and R. M. George, of 82; and even allowing for the elements the result can only be considered as barely satisfactory. Gunson was not quite up to standard through the green, but his putting throughout was delightfully steady and at times was brilliant. At the 6ixth he wa3 one over fours, but slight lapses

impossible, as the hands simply will not do successfully what the mind does not suggest. One feels keenly sympathetic towards a player in a dilemma on the green, possibly because of having often experienced the feeling, and although it may be all very well to say " hit your putts to the back of the hole." it is sometimes quite another thing to do so. It is a positive joy to see the apparent ease with which the beginner religiously holes the four-footer, and tho manner in which the feat is accomplished is, to the hardened campaigner, almost akin to tempting the gods. And now, lest I should wander to endless theories, let a conclusion be reached by quoting a departed 60ul who wrote of life as a tragedy to him who feels and a comedy to him who thinks, and by observing that had the game of golf been uppermost in his mind, as an epitome it would have been at least equally applicable.