GOLF

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27091, 14 July 1953, Page 10

GOLF

COACHING FOR YOUTHS

REPORT TO ASSOCIATION The view that the coaching of youths could be properly carried out only by the clubs, was expressed by Mr C. C. A. Barnard, when presenting the report of the youth coaching sub-committee to a meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Provincial Golf Association last evening. He said he did not consider the association could do much* towards promoting the project. Mr Barnard said a club member had told him that in one college in the North Island boys were' encouraged to play golf. A six-hole course was attached to the college and as well, members of a nearby golf club called for boys on Sundays and took them round the club's course. This man considered the coaching project could go forward if a pool of clubs was established in the various colleges. “I don’t think this is to be encouraged." said Mr Barnard. With the club memberships as full as they could be. it would be difficult to get the youths into clubs and this would be a shame after the encouragement they had received. He considered it was up to the clubs to formulate some coaching plan. No action was taken. The Scargill Golf Club was elected an affiliated member of the association. “I would like to see something done to help this,” said the chairman (Mr C. E. Wroth), when a letter from the Canterbury International Air Race Council, asking for the association to sponsor a queen in its contest, was received. It was pointed out that on a previous occasion it was decided that grants from the association’s funds should not be made in such cases. The letter was received. INTER-CLUB MATCH Tai Tapu beat Kaituna by 12 matches to 10 in an inter-club golf match for ,the Barnett Friendly Cup, played at the Kaituna Golf Club during the week-end. Results (Kaituna names first) were:—O. P. Bayley beat L. Blumsky; E. Henderson lost to N. J. Mackenzie; K. H. Parkinson beat W. G. McCartney; D. L. Mason lost to H. C. Anderson: W. A. Newton lost to E. B. Davison: D. Gardiner and E. Thompson, all square; E. J. Lee lost to J. O’Donnell; B. M. Parkinson lost to D. T. Ager: A. Gray lost to J. McKay; R. Barclay beat N. R. Withell: G. Gray beat F. Carter: P. H. Parkinson lost to R. C. Blackmore; T. M. Templeton lost to J. Wright; P. A; de Pass beat L. King; A. Smith and N. G. Newton lost to H. Duncan and W. Wood; Miss B. Coop beat Mrs Phillpptt; Miss M. Gray beat Mrs R. Blackmore; Mrs D. Mason beat Mrs B. Calder: Mrs R. Barclay lost to Mrs Groom; Mrs J. Carr beat Miss A. Welsh; Mrs P. Bayley beat Mrs N. R. Withell: Mrs P. de Pass lost to Mrs L. Smart; Mrs A. Gray halved with Miss R. Smart; Mrs D. Gardiner and Mrs N. Newton lost to Miss B. Wood and Mrs H. Duncan. A Stableford bogey played recently at the Tai Tapu Ladies’ Golf Club resulted as follows:—Mrs E. Thompson, 5 down; Miss P. Simpson. 6 down; Mrs A. Bell, 6 down; Mrs L. Smart, 7 down. WATTIKIRI CLlte.—Stroke match: N. Cusack, 88, 20—68.’ Flag match: L. J. James carried the flag to the nineteenth green.