GOLF TITLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 228, 26 September 1930, Page 8

GOLF TITLES.

GRADING OF PROFESSIONALS ENTRY TO OPEN LIMITED. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day.

Golf professionals will face the next New Zealand golf championship meeting with different prospects of entry to the open, for the New Zealand Golf Council has now obtained a grading list, which will guide it when entries for the open are received. The grading list, which is confidential, has been compiled by the Professional Golfers' Association, and divides the players into two classes, "A" and "13. It is the final method which the council has adopted of dealing with a trying situation. Year by year, professionals who are allowed to play in the open championship have been shutting out amateurs who were really better players. When the national handicap vsystem was adopted, the way was open for adjustment, but the amateurs have to apply for a national handicap, and it was not judged wise from the point of view of the professionals to allot them one. Finally the council placed a limit on the number of professionals who would be permitted to play in the open, and now lias gone a step further and asked for this grading list. There will be not more than 20 professionals in the next open championship at Palmerston North. While the upper ranks of the professionals are very good players, there are others who are jiot able to hold their own-with many amateurs.