Golf

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 20

Golf

By "Chipshot"

INTEREST IN GOLF

SHANDON'S TRICKY HOLE

NOTES

The extent to which golf 'is being played this winter is an answer to the despondents who would have everybody mope in sympathy with their own outlook. One of the many golf shops in Wellington recently sold five sets of clubs to beginners on a Monday morning. Perhaps they had found that their friends on the links forget their worries there. It is amazing how the courses aro congested every weekend, considering the state of affairs generally. SHANDOK'S FOURTEENTH. Shawdon's fourteenth, the niashie shot hole surrounded by trouble, seems to present several mental hazards. The gorse and weeds have been cleared away from the bank of the old backwater, and now,. from the tee, the player faces a very even curve of stripped bank that curls away to the left acwss the line to the hole. Tho number of players whose eye is drawn by this fatal curve is remarkable. Most golfers hook from this tec. The green is backed by a fence, and on'the right is a saucy little pot "bunker which catches all slices. It looks a simple hole, but it is very easy to bo short and land on a clay flat amongst the weeds. So frequently does this happen that some club members play their next shot from this ignominy with a putter, allowing for the curve of the bank as a putter allows borrow on the greens. Beside this tantalising hole the "Crater" near the clubhouse is an aristocrat of golfing holes, a neat mashie shot and a putt. UtRS. GUEDALLA BRILLIANT. England, holders of the trophy since IDI3, retained the International Cup, at the L.G.U. meeting at Banelagh, having the lowest aggregate total for the eight best scores —four on each of the two days—of 575. Scotland were second with 599, Ireland third with 602, and Wales fourth with 619. The Kit-Cat Gold Medal for the best scratch score on either day was won by Mrs. 11. Guedalla (Addington), the former English champion, who made a brilliant return of 67, failing by only ono stroke to equal Miss D. Fish wick's record of 66 accomplished last year. Mrs. Guedalla, who did not compete as a member of the English team, was the last player, to return a card. Mrs. Guedalla might have easily broken Miss "Fish wick's record had she not dropped several ■ strokes in recovering from bunkers. She was trapped near the green at the short eighth and took threes shots to get clear, and at 'the eighteenth, after nearly reaching the green, 240 yards away, required two shots to recover from a bunker into which her ball had rolled after having caught the top of the hazard. Mrs. Guedalla also expended three shots on both the twelfth and thirteenth greens. KEEN GOLF. Allan Dailey, the golf "discovery" of Boehamptou, lost one of his titles recently, the Yorkshire Professional Championship. He held this and also the Open Championship of the county and appeared likely to retain the title when in the first round at Brough near Hull, he created a now record for the course with a score of 69. But he took 73, one moro than the scratch score of the course, for his second round, and was beaten by B. S. Weastell, the Brough professional, who totalled 140. .Dailey's morning record did not stand long as Weastell broke it with a'score of 68.' • '■.■'■ ■■■ "KICKER" HANDICAPS. The question of handicaps at times borders on the intense, especially when the loser has the lower one. An Australian writer offers the suggestion that the "kicker" system be introduced.-It consists in letting everyone handicap himself or herself —and who is better qualified for the job?—but if that selfawarded allowance of strokes results in the player beating the par figures, then he, or she, is penalised two strokes for every one stroke by which par, that is to say, perfect play, has been surpassed. Thus, when the player has been too liberal to himself in the matter of strokes, and so misses the trophy, instead of vilifying tho handicapper, he kicks himself —hen:o the name. • ■ . ■ WHAT NEXT? The most extraordinary happening to occur in Australian golf in recent years occurred in' Melbourne tho other day. A well-known Yarra Yarra Club member, Frank Lcith, in playing an explosion shot from one of the steep-sided bunkers favoured by southern clubs, shut his eyes to keep out the sand as the club head delved in. When . he opened his eyes the ball was nowhere to bo seen. A search round the green and in the timber failed to bring it to light. Eventually he found the ball —in his sweater pocket! EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE. H. L. Crispe had an extraordinary experience at the seventh hole at Killara, says Hector Morrison. A tractor was'chugging backwards and forwards cutting the steep slope to the left of the green when Crispe played his iron shot from the tee. Tho ball lobbed on a wheel of the tractor and rebounded right across the green sideways, out of bounds. The tractor continued on its way, Crispe teed up again and played. Again tho ball lobbed on a wheel and sailed over tho fence. Once more Crispe essayed to find tho green from tho tee, but again tho ball lobbed on a wheel and careered out of bounds. What happened after that is best left unsaid! . ■ - . MASTERTON NOTES. The Masterton links wero looking very well for the ladies' tournament i this week. The fairways are in excellent condition, although one or two of tho greens have, not yet recovered from the long dry spell. The qualifying round saw Mrs. Guy Williams at tho head of tho list. A senior lady player had a disaster in tho" qualifying round. At tho sixteenth hole' there is a gulch immediately in front of the ladies' tee. This player drove three successive balls from the tee into this gulch, and then decided to .go down and play from the gulch. The result was an unhappy 21, although tho player almost mashied out her approach for 19. The Masterton men's tournament will bo held on Juno 3, 4, and 5, and promises to bo a decided success. With Hornabrook, Horton, Bidwell, and Collins, the Wairarapa has a quartet which will extend any visiting player. It is not known yet how many of Wellington 's leading players will bo making tho trip, but it is hoped that sonic will.