FREYBERG ROSE BOWL COURSE Long, Accurate Hitting Will Be Required

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31053, 7 May 1966, Page 17

FREYBERG ROSE BOWL COURSE Long, Accurate Hitting Will Be Required

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND.

As on all good, testing golf courses, competitors in the Freyberg Rose Bowl national inter-association tournament at the Grange course in Auckland will need to hit the ball long and accurately if they wish to score well in the tournament on May 12, 13 and 14.

Grange officials have not attempted to interfere with the course’s natural park-like appearance and have not allowed the fairway grass to grow to provide short or long rough.

Instead, they have left the course’s hazards of wellplaced trees, a lake, an arm of the Tamaki river and gullys to test the golfers. The course will be long by Auckland standards at about 6600 yards, and it has a particularly testing first half of 35 with three par fours of 400 or more yards. WILL PLAY LONG

The second half is rated at 37, giving a 72 par for the course.

Grange officials feel that under typical May conditions the fairways should provide little run and that the course will play long. A measure of the course’s difficulty is that the official amateur record is held by a club-member, 1. Bay, at 69, although there is an unofficial mark of 64 set by H. Great-

head when there were several temporary greens and clean-and-place applied. After their final preparation the greens saould be true and, at least by Auckland standards, fair'y fast. The greens have a uniform texture and Grange officals believe that if the rose-bowl golfers can handle one of them they will be able to handle them all.

Most of the 12 competing teams are expected to start practising on the course on Monday.

The card of the course is:—

Hole Yards Par 1 345 4 2 405 4 3 400 4 4 359 4 5 144 3 6 533 5 7 400 4 8 185 3 9 370 4 Out 3141 35 10 395 4 11 178 3 12 487 5 13 490 5 14 393 4 15 195 3 16 376 4 17 484 5 18 455 4 In 3453 37 Total 6594 72