GOLF.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 14

GOLF.

(By "Mashie.") The Miramar Club was partieularlj lucky in its choice of an opening day. The weather was perfect, and the linkt looked especially well. The attendance, too, was large, and much, interest was manifested in the competitions. Miss Bidsbury is to be congratulated on her two wins in the approaching and driving com' petitions. Mr. Horton did some phenomenal approaching in the men's competition, which he won. Apropos of the projected visit of a number of English professionals to Australia under the auspices of the A.G.U., "Jock" (in the Referee) has a few words to say. He notes that a fortnight ago Braid, Taylor, and Sherlock were to start from Cnming Cross on their travels abroad, ihoy are not exactly going round the world, but their engagements will take them round a considerable part of Europe. Ihe tour on which the "new Triumvirate" is about to embark is one of the most extended European journeys ever undertaken by British professionals. They first of all visit St. Jean de Luz, which is not far from Biarritz. Thence they go to Hyeres, iNice, and finally to Rome. Taylor, I suppose, is the greatest of the travellers. Me is no stranger in the Eternal City, and in ii/gypr, almost under the shadow of the great Pyramid, the forceful little man from mid-Surrey has laid out a linkE. Not many months ago Taylor received the offer of a more formidable tour, whioh would have extended to India and South Africa. The proposal was a tempting one, but after due consideration, he decided to stay at home, une of the matters, Braid, has probably travelled the least. Perhaps this is because he is the worst sailor ol the three, for it does not take much o£,ra sea to prostrate the champion. A big effort was made a short time ago to get Braid to go on a starring tour through the United States, 2^.^ Ta r°r, came to the conclu^ sion that it would pay him best to remain at home. In the face of the above facts whntW o^ - 1 tt is ™W d ° u °tfut whether sufficient inducement can be offerJS«.^,lS ly t Of *i. theße J gr S at players to visit Australia at the end of the present year. Two golfers who had been lunching not wisely, but too well," were about to commence a match, when the following. C ( ?^ ls^ l ° n *° ok P^ce on the first tee :- wln^ m i-Z B tru hy P ufc d °™ twa balls, 1 -™ lr~ wTi YK put down twa balls, l^o^V^t'S *y ft« &M^TaS., CIUb^ (PrOfUEe **«- N s n w he T? rm ° f o thie month « at K^ara, i perhaps his cards will be of interest He was in excellent touch all day, and bagged the cheque from the scratch mark with foU°ows ne^ OUndS ° f n and 77 > made U P ™ Morning— Out: 663535434 — 39 In: 33 5 4 445 4 3 — 35 74 Afternoon— Out: 546545434 — 40 In: 444444445 — 37 77 Both morning and afternoon Soutar displayed wonderful form over the homecoming 9. holes on the harder half of the n?np rß? ; v?**^ r< ? Und he did the nine in 35, finishing with a superbly-playec 3, while m the afternoon, after takinp 40 to go out. he again reoovered with a 37 coming home. n JJ h ft holein S of the tee-shot, when it is not the work of some practical joker, is naturally regarded as the most interesting fluke in golf but it is the kind of flukl ivT/ 11 , exohan & c ) th^t is becoming so reniark ng y Th° mmOn ? S ™l Cel * to e * cite remark. The record performer in this respect is undoubtedly Mr. L Stuart untnT f - NN K Orth , B 4ickronce r ~ up in the Irish open championship, who has done it seven times. Mr. Herbert Fowler, another well-known English player, has also holed his drive on seven occasions, one of them, unfortunately, into the wrong hole-his drive from the sixteenth tee at Walton Heath finding an unexpected resting place within the hole on the seventh green: ■ First place among he professionals m this respect belong! , \h ■ «« ylo »' ho has be en credited" with. six "ones" altogether. But it is scarcely less curious that Harry Vardon should never once have succeeded in bringing off the perfect fluke. The third member of the triumvirate (James Braid) ii a(-%a (-%v ° ad ' a ,, vm q ue n experience in being set the problem of doing the hole in none A lady pupil-a Miss Willis-playing at Stoke Pogis, holed off the tee at a short hole where she was in receipt of a stroke, and after considering the case for a second, Braid decided to make * O r wW? - + t?6 " ght away - J wond er whether it is correct to term such shots flukes. Surely the object is to get your drive as near to the hole as possible. Granting that, if you succeed in doing what you were trying for, surely the element of flukmess disappears. At the first meeting of the newly constituted ' golf council, held on Tuesday last, a -proposal was put that each club in tne association be asked to state what entrance fee is payable by new members, and whether the olub has a rule under which new members are allowed any rebate of entrance fee to the extent of any entrance fees already paid by such new member* to the * club he previously belonged to, and whether if no such rule exists they are willing to ,adopt one"? Ihis motion takes a little thinking out, but undoubtedly the principle is a sound one. It does not seem right once a member has paid an entrance fee to any club that he should be compelled to again pay to be placed on the membership of an affiliated institution. A proposal in re green fees for visitors and uniform subscriptions for officers of the Army and Navy was also moved by Mr A. b. Bibs. This is a point that has long needed attention.