GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 18

GOLF

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AN APPROACHING CONTEST

KARORI MUST MOVE

SEASON CLOSING DOWN,

One after another clubs are officially closing down, with the eicepiion. p| Heretaunga, but play will -t continuij much as usual until after Ljth* jiW Year. Summer evenings pffer many; people an opportunity to improve theii game, and the probability /'of a New i ear tournament at Miramaj will en* courage them. . ■

While golf 'isV easing off everywhere else, at Heretaunga it is coming iatot Wellington Club are now at their best! the fairways velvety, and the greens superb, and they will remain to all summer. : ;• : ; . .

Karon Club will have the sympathy of .11 golfers. It. grounds are needed for the expansion of the suburb, and unless other links are found th« Karon Club will cease to exist. There it, how* ever, a chance' that ground will be secured, not by any means io, conveniently situated, which will enable tho club to keep.together.;, The old course was not altogether suited for a golf links, owing to its hilly nature, and the fact that it was too small, and if the club were to secure ground for a good eighteen-hole course it could extend its membership and become one of the lead-i ing Wellington clubs; .Most othir clubs have an adequate membership, to put it mildly, and if the ground could be *c.. cured Karori would have little difficulty m getting more members, whose mi trance fees would assist in financing the new enterprise. ' The match for the Mornington Cham' pionship between H v ,J. Shanks and D* Hartwell last week-end was a close one.' There was little to choose in thejolf. At the end of tKe turning_ round Hart-i well was 81 and Shknks 76, the latter being 4 up. The first hole in .the; afternoon was Halved, but Hartwell won th» next four, squaring the match.' Hartwell did the last 18 in 78, and Shanks in 79, the latter finishing 2 up on the last green. • T. H. Horton, the. Dominion amateur champion, had an ee6.y win'for tHa championship of the/ Wairarapa Golf Club, defeating J. Kwr. Kefr was' a down at the eighteenth, arid gave up the matchi * • X

Qtlf Wthtut t Drfvi.

The recent competition at Home o£» approaching shots only, to holes within the reach of an ordinary second shot,. was not, says a writer, very in^ teresting. The absence at the th,ritl of the drive wu noticeable, and thai long walks to the improvised: teesj tedious.. Initiated with the object of? dissecting the shortcoming* of, th«j English game compared with, the} American, it did little bat prove that? the Englishmen competing were less} confident in their putting. Each hole) was reduced tg a par 3, and the disj tances^nnged from a full brassi* of 230 yards to * mashie niblick pite^ of 69 yards. Duncan got in a bunker, hacked ferociously out and across thi green into more trouble, and took <J for the hole, and'thereafter lost in-* terest. Braid had "adventurea'* with trees, JV, H. Taylor was "off'l his irons, and Vardon could not put& The lowest score for the 18 holes waj 50. Tacking a stroke a hole oi t(| this, for a presumed drive, thai) would give a score of 68, but it mus<| be remembered that none of the mis* chances that befall, even,the . besf . players, such as bad .lies., through sj hooked ba11,., were , possible,., anSj allowing for ••', this,., . and, they fact that everybody was credited! with a faultless and lengthy drive-for, a start; the results was none too brilliant. Particulars of Compston'sj Wonderful 50 are interesting:—

Notes. : ■ ■-•■•.■..,.* Until lately, with the constant rains nnd lack of sunshine, the difficulty was to get tho ball up to the greens, and when there to putt with sufficient firmness, but now the golfer is faced with a different problem, how to Stop on the greens when be gets there, nnd how to keep.the putt straight with only tho gentlest •>* taps. He has been playing approach shots off the right foot, to get run out of a reluctant ball, but now he ■ must play off the left foot, and any, tendency to follow through, or turn over the club head after the ball has been struck, must be restrained; Turning over the dub head will give run; stopping the club head, gooi after tho ball has left it, help to pull up the ball. A ball played with "cut" (drawing th« head across thai ball from the outside inwards) will stop short also, but it generally, kiekg to the right, niid allowance nrart b< mado for this. If the player cannot master these shots, he can plajj short of the green and allow for the;, run. It is on the green where fto trouble begins. Practice will giv* g - fair idea of the strength required fos long putts, but there; is no remedy ft>r) tho feeling of uncertainty that comejj when a four-foot put has to Jtt suakj • with tho merest whisper of a ■t*°kj£ Gripping the putter hard will nakt If worse. AUghVeujrbol«of*lwf tw, in the 4u«t «M*¥f!l P«lai tot prsf.ruis, Hgk—- as

'• ' •"',." '•' .'■ '■'" ' ■ •'' ■ Score) ■' (150 yards); mashie, two putts 3 (170 -yaifds), straight-faced '" : mashie, two putts 3 •" \ (100 yards)/ mashie-niblick, putt v of 4 yards 2 • ' (165 yards), straight:faeed mashie, two putts y........ 3 (200 yards), No. 2 iron, 'two'".'- , ' putts ..';.,..".'..'.. ... .-•.," 3" (140 yards),, mashie, putt of 5 , yards ',■••• 2 (220 yards), full „brassicj two , ; ... putts .3 (160 yards),full mashie,putt 0f,"..' . , 2 yards ................. .2 (110 yards), mashio niblick,'tvro...'.putts- ...i.'..i............ 3 (120 yards), .masliie-nibltck, • twc putts .... 3. (170 yards),.: straight-faced mashie, two putts „:..,.... 3 . ' (115' yards), mashie-niblick, putt , of 2 yards .;......'; '..■<..-. 2 (200 yards), No. 2 iron, two putts ....... i........... 3 (180 yards), N0..3 iron, putt:of : 6 yards ........;'. -.;.. 2 • (150 yards), mashio-niblick, two ,putts ..'.:. 3 (225 yards) full brassic, chip shot, two putts ............ £ ' ■ (160 yards), ■ full washie, tivo • putts ................... 3 (190 yards), No. 2 iron, two putts ..."...........'■.... 3 Total" .............. 50