GOLF CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 264, 4 August 1937, Page 14

GOLF CONTROL

Amateur Status Question COMING TOURNAMENTS Lengthy consideration was given by the council of the New Zealand Golf Association at its monthly meeting this week to the laying dowu of conditions to obtain in New Zealand regarding actions which will make a player ineligible to compete in amateur competitions, and it was resolved to draft out. the proposed conditions and submit them to advisory committees for their report and recommendations.

It was reported that the championship programmes are now in the printer’s hands, and will be available for circulation to clubs within a week or two, and also that the making of a permanent score board for championship meetings is well in hand. Two new Canterbury clubs, Pleasant Point and Waitikiri, were admitted to affiliation.

It was reported that the number of visits paid by the association’s travelling professionals this season is already more thau double the number carried out last season, and this was considered satisfactory evidence that the tuition is appreciated by affiliated clubs. Correspondence was submitted regarding an in terprovincial match which has been arranged between the Canterbury and Otago provinces, and will be played at Christchurch on September 5. The secretary reported that the list for the King George -Memorial Fund had been closed, and that the total amount forwarded to the Prime Minister was £560 18/5. It was decided to offer the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union the usual annual grant of £lOO. The following standard scratch scores were confirmed :—Aorangi, 66 ; Hororata, 70; Otorohanga, 70; Patea, 72; Purua, 73. Forthcoming Tournaments. The association was advised of the following tournaments : —Ellesmere, open tournament, August 22; Hastings, annual tournament, August 26, 27, 28; Poverty Bay, annual championship and handicap tournament, August 24, 25, 26; Rotorua, Rotorua open amateur handicap tournament, August 24, 25, 26, 27; Rotorua, Rotorua veterans’ tournament, August 30 and 31, and September 1,2, 3; Roxburgh, ladies’ tournament, August 24 and 25; men’s tournament, August 27 and 28; Tauranga, annual Bay of Plenty open championship, August 28 and 29; XVaikare, (Te Kauwhata), Lower Waikato open amateur championship tournament, August 15 ; Waipawa, annual tournament, August 7 and 8; Avondale, ChristchurchSouth Island open tournament, September 25 and 26; Christchurch, interprovincial match, Otagw v. Canterbury and Westland, September 5; Eltham, annual tournament and Central Taranaki championship, September 25, 26, 27; Hamilton, South Auckland open professional and amateur tournaments, September 2, 3,4; Harewood (Christchurch), North Canterbury amateur championships, September 18 and 19 ; Marlborough, annual provincial tournament, September 25, 26, 27; Napier, Hawke’s Bay amateur championship tournament, September 7 to September 10; New Zealand championship meeting, Hamilton, September 30 to October 8; Ohaupo, open tournament, September 2(5; Timaru, South Canterbury open amateur championships, September 25, 26, 27; Waipukurau, annual tournament, September 2,3, 4; Wairoa, annual tournament, September 25, 26, 27; Wanaka, annual tournament, September 3 and 4; Wellsford, open men’s championship and handicap tournament, September 27; Whakatane, tournament, September 25, 26, 27; Featherston, annual tournament, October 23, 24, 25; Fitzroy (New Plymouth), North Taranaki championship and handicap tournament, October 23, 24, 25; Hutt, annual tournament, October 23, 24, 25; Manawatu, annual championship tournament, October 23 to October 25; Maraenui (Napier), annual tournament October 23, 24, 25; Mokorua (Whakatane), tournament, October 17, 24, 25; Pahiatua, annual tournament, October 23, 24, 25; Seafield (Wanganui), annual tournament, October 23, 25, 26; Wanganui, Wanganui championship tournament, October 14, 15, 16. The chairman, Sir Alexander Roberts, presided at the meeting, and others present were Messrs. C. H. Andrews, J. H. Drake, W. A. Kiely, J. C. Peacock, A. R. Sclanders, and G. O. Sutton (secretary).