THE GAME OF GOLF

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 287, 30 August 1933, Page 14

THE GAME OF GOLF

Big Victorian Tourney PRIZE. OF £2OOO The Victorian Golf Association is'offering a prize of £2OOO for a championship meeting at the Metropolitan Golf- Club, Oakleigh, Victoria, as a feature of Victorian and Melbourne Centenary celebrations next year. In addition, there will be a valuable gold cup for the Victorian amateur open event. Mr. H. G. Mcßoberts,’ president of the Victorian Golf Association, says ' that the £2OOO prize is the biggest golf prize in the British Empire. The, “Daily,. Mail” prize, England, is £l5OO. He said there should ultimately be £5OOO offered in prize-' money in Victoria alone. Already .another club proposes to offer a Centenary Gold Cup and a substantial prize, and still a third j club is negotiating for a competition for which £250 prize-money will be available. ■ Negotiations ; are at present being finalised to ensure that at least one of the world’s leading golfers will be. present in Australia during the Centenary and leading professionals from other countries going to Melbourne for the Centenary will find a most remunerative “gate” throughout Australia, where there are 120,000 golfers, for private exhibitions. Around Melbourne there are at least five picturesque golf . courses which are definitely of championship standard, and have been describee! by | overseas visitors as the equal of anything to be found in Britain or America. Rototawai v. Miramar The annual home-and-home matches between Rototawai and Miramar Golf Clubs will commence with a visit from Rototawai next Sunday. The'followjng is.the draw, Rototawai players being mentioned first: —D. C. Collins v. H. A. Black, J. C. Bidwell v. J. H. Drake, A. H. Warren v. H. E. H. Aplin, G. Fenwick v. E. Hi Liddle, W. G. Martin v. W. A. Robertson, W. H. Rowles v. T. W. Sandham, N. C. Shepherd v. C. V. Sutherland, senr., H. B. McMaster v. A. E. Marsden. K. H. Allen v. E. E. Brooking. H. R. BTbxham v. A. E Mabin, J. W. Card v. W. Parkin? E. F. Trustrum v. I. |L. Defnpster, L. G. Benton v. J. B. Lauchlan, H. Lawson v. H. F. Toogood, Dr. Sharpe v. F. D. Thomson, W. G. Russell y. C. Parsloe.