GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 22

GOLF

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A BUSY SEASON

WELLINGTON BEAT HUH

QUIN OFF COLOUR

COMJNG EVENTS.

June 2 to 4—Masterton Tournament. September 2 to September 10—Now Zttltnd GolT Championships, at Hamilton.

Rains have made play a pleasure on all courses, and clubs have settled dowa to earnest golf. Hutt failed to jrepeat its form tf.ainst Wellington in the first, inter-club match of the season, but Wellington 's win was not an overwhelming one, ana no doubt, the newer club will try to revprse its defeat in the return match. Club competitions are in foil swing, and will soon reach the inter* esting stage. . Wellington-Hutt Match. Eana Wagg made a great recovery ii his inter-club match with D. O. Whyte last Saturday at Heretaunga. He wag 4 down going to the fourteenth, but won the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth, squaring the game there. Whyte approached short at the fourteenth and fifteenth, and mis-hit hi« drive at the sixteenth. VAt the' eighteenth Whyte's approach ran through the green, and under a willow, ana Wagg won 1 up. -.•■• . , . H. A. Black was 1 down at the ninth' to J. B. Parker. Both came home in good figures. Tho tenth was halved in. 5, Black won the next two in 4, 5, and the thirteenth was halved in 4. Black won the fourteenth in 3, making him 2 up. Both failed to get up the bank at the fifteenth, and both played well out, leaving reasonable putts which both' narrowly missed, halving in 4. Black'■ drive at the sixteenth was short, arid his second lay perched on- top of th« bunker, and he was short with his ap-' proach, Parker winning the hole. Black was lucky to halve the next, putting a long approach into the bunker,. He ran his ball out with the nutter, and sank a seven-foot put for 4. "Parker, like many Heretaunga golfers, found the eighteenth awkward to approach irom the' right-hand side of the fairway, 'ana in! trying to play off the corner o£< the bunker was short, Black wisaink £ up. : ■■ "' ■ . A. t>. S. Duncan and J. L. Black are so nearly matched that there is always a tussle when they. meet. Duncan went out in 40, and was 1 up on Black at the ninth, where the latter had trouble, and took a 5. Both came back in 35.'5. .Black squared the game at the tenth, but Duncan won the clevent, Black hooking into trouble. Black was lucky at the twelfth; H« pushed out his tee shot to the righl^ and his second, a long brassie into tho wind, was practically spent '■when it landed in the bunker near the tress, but it just scrambled over. ' Dnnean, from two fine shots, put his third down the hill past the green, and barely got up with his next, taking 6, Black squaring the game again with a 5; Black won the next in 4, and was 1 ,up. The fifteenth hole strangely favoured both v players. Duncan's tee shot was a low one, and only just got up the bank, but the ball ran on to stop leas' than a yard from the cup. Black's tee shot was short, and the ball perched upon. the flanking bunker. In approaching he laid Duncan a stymie, and a half in. three resulted. Duncan -hooked his drive under into the tree on the sixteenth fairway, and had no room to swing his club, but got a half 1* 4, Black's second from a good te» shot being but mediocre. Both putted fo? 3 's at the eighteenth, but Duncan sank his, and they faced the last hole square. Duncan's second was on the green, and hisHhird dead, while Black, who had to approach over the bunker on the left with hi 3 third, wbb not near enough to sink the putt for a half. " ' ': • Plenty of Competition.- '" • :•■ • L. T. Quin is lucky. He has playert who can not only give him. a good game, in his own little club at Eltham, but occasionally administer a licking. It may not be too much to say that Quin's amateur Dominion championship at Auckland was as much the property of the Eltham Club as his,- because, although' he is the best : of the' three? brothers on the whole,- either of the other two can hit him up on occasion. This time he was put out of the Tars* naki championship at Easter by H. P. Dale, a young golfer who has shown up well at several Dominion champion* ship meeting's, and needs only to steady ■ down in his game a little to be just as good as Quin at his best. Then. there are P. Gray and G. M. Chong, capable of giving any of these four a battle, so that in his district Quin it happily .placed., He was not quite up to .form when put out, as he did a' 77 later. So good were the other net card* then, however, containing a 72; 73, two 74 's, and seven 75 's, that he did »ot come in the first eleven. . • ' Hole in One. - : :••■. ' A holo in one was done by lan Dodds (Nelson) during the Easter tournament there. 'It'was the seventh, a 120----yard mashie shot. This was not ■ th« only wonderful thing that happened at Nelson. The prize had already been presented in one four-ball event, when a better card was brought in during the presentation of the other prizes. Morpeta Back to Stay? Sloane Morpeth's reappearance. in serious golf is to. be welcoraieS:." His 72 at Manawatu shows that he is still capable of his old form, when he won, tho amateur Dominion championship, in ■ 1920, and was only narrowly beaten by Joo Kirkwood for the open! More leisure will now give him the opportunity of showing the golf he can un« doubtedly play. ■ Easter Echoes. . V It is pleasing to see Miss OV Kay) winning tho Canterbury Easter championship amongst tho ladies. Miss Kay, is a fine temperamental golfer and stylist, a long hitter, and very sound with, the.mashie and putter, and if she retains her interest in the game for a,. year or two should win Dominion hon- • ours soon. She only needed the success which has attended rocently to give her the confidence always lack* ing in a young player. By winning the. amateur champion* ship of Canterbury (says the "Lyttelton Times"), C. A. Seymour has again. demonstrated what accuracy and steadiness means in a golfer. ■ He is by no means a long player, but is very straight, so much so that among some of his club mates he is known.as tho "Fairway King." His short work, and his putting arc deadly accurate. ■, Legacies of Laziness. ' • ' ? A man may have a carbuncle taken out of his neck, and leave very, little trace of the operation, but it its othervriso with the divot t.tkftr who does not replace. These holes look unsightly. at the time, but they are wore dangerous afterwards, when the grass has grown over them. It is not every player who can sense the slight depression in which! his ball lies, and many an unaccountably fruitless brassie • shot is due to the fact that tho ball Was imperceptibly cupped, its weight depressing the grass mown level with the turf. It is no uncommon sight to see A. D. S. Duncan scattering divots 'wholesale in practice shots, but not on any part of the fairway. Even where ho merely skims the turf on any spot where another golfer's ball may some day lie' in play, the du»4 however small, is always collected andi stamped down, -•-'■- ---=^=^Sii