From Tee To Green

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 239, 8 October 1940, Page 10

From Tee To Green

Convincing form was shown by L. Johnston in the Akarana golf championship at the week-end, and in hie semifinal match against C. R. Taylor he had a round of 74. Johnston was playing in the concurrent Stableford and won it with 37 points.

W. R. Woolhouse caused an early surprise when he eliminated P. Quinu, 2 and 1. Seeing that he had an 8 at the fifteenth and played the half in 37, Woolhouse's match play was good. Quinn was hardly in a position to do himself justice, as he had been assisting in the search for the prisoners, who had got out of bounds. Woolhouse then went on to beat J. E. Cashr-iore, over whom lie got a lead of 5 up at the turn (Cashinore fighting back well afterwards), and nearly caused another upset in the semi-final, when he met F. J. Gullen. The match went to the eighteenth, where Wool house missed a putt of under two feet and lost 1 down. Cu'llen was not quite ae impressive in this match ns he had been earlier. He was out in 40 to be 1 up, and it appeared that Woolhouse would get square at the fifteenth, where he was nicely on in 2, and his opponent short. However, after overrunning the hole with his approach putt he was stymied by Cullen's fourth and could then get only a half. Both got the 3 at the sixteenth, and when Cullen played a weak third at the seventeenth and was bunkered, Woolhouse squared the match. It appeared certain to go to the nineteenth when he missed the short putt on the last green.

There is going to be a father and son final at Akarana in the C grade championship, and the sympathetic manner in which the crowd at the clubhouse withnessed his semi-final success at the nineteenth hole towards the end of Sunday afternoon Indicates that further success for the father will be most popular—O. G. Ashley, member of the executive tor many years is the father, and C. Ashley, the son. The former had quite a triumph when he beat in the first round the player who had qualified top. It was a lons struggle, which went to the twenty-first. Two rounds later he went to the first tee egain all square with his tMrd opponent, and this was when word reached the other nineteenth of the struggle. The windows of the clubhouse were lined as the two players went up the first fairway. When they returned, with Ashley the winner, there was hearty applause for the veteran. • • • •

The Pupuke Cup. a handicap match play event, was finalised at the week-end and resulted in a win for H. Randrup, the club champion, over E. A. Carson, to whom he was conceedlng five strokes. The match went the full distance, Carson using his strokes and also playing the short holes remarkably well, getting three three's and two two's. Randrup was playing well, and when Carson got into trouble with his drive at the eighteenth Randrup got a sound 4 to win, and also take the Stableford competition, in which he was playing concurrently. The winners of the monthly medals at Pupuke contested the final, but the pace set by 23-handl-capper E. T. Brown, gave the opposition no chance. He had a round ol Bβ tor a net 63.

Several happenings in the championship play recently emphasise the lack of knowledge of the rules there is even among the low markers. One player In a match left his bag on the green and was temporarily surprised when his opponent claimed the hole after hitting the bag. As it happened on the eighteenth, and the offender was 1 down. It may not have affected the result so there was no heartburning. At Mlddlemore, in the qualifying play, a competitor who had a 7 turned Into 9 by his scorer for playing a wrong ball could not believe that that was the penalty until he saw It in black and white. For the benefit ot those (and there are many of them) who may make similar mistakes, the rules of playing the wrong baU In stroke and match play are quoted.

Stroke Competitions, Rule 8.—(1) A competitor shall hole out with his own ball at every hole under penalty of disqualification. Ift a competitor play a stroke or strokes with a ball other than his own he shall Incur a penalty of two strokes. He shall then play his own ball. (3) In a hazard if a competitor play a stroke or strokes with a ball other than his own, and the mistake be discovered before he has played a stroke with the wrong ball from outside the limits of the hazard, he shall Incur no penalty provided he then play the right ball. Penalty, disqualification. The rules for match play provide for loss of hole If a player play the opponent's ball unless the opponent do likewise. In the latter case one mistake cancels the other and the hole shall be played out with the balls exchanged. There la provision, however, that the penalty does not take effect if the offender notifies his opponent before the latter plays his next shot, or when the mistake occurs through wrong information given by an opponent or his caddie. The same penalty and proviso applies In regard to the playing of a ball outside the match. If however, the mistake is not discovered and Intimated to the opponent until he has played his next stroke then the hole is lost as In the case of using the opponent's ball.