Golf

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1933, Page 24

Golf

By "Chipshot." NATIONAL TOURNEY

FEW ABSENT

NOTES

Several names aro missing from the list of entrants in the national championships this year. J. Millard (Avondale) and several other members of Christchurch clubs will not be at Titirangi. Taranaki is sending two useful ones in Dale and Abbott. Dale has had the advantage of a tour of the American links since he appeared at a national • meeting, and ho should show an improvement on his former steady play. A. E. Conway is a Taranaki player- who is not going. Another who has shown up' well on former occasions, but will bo absent, is A. G. Sime (Westport). Kapi Tareha, the long hitter from Napier, is making the first appearance for some time, though formerly no national championship meeting was complete without his spectacular progress. A newcomer to New Zealand championships is Barnes-Gra-ham from Poverty Bay. J. P. Northland (Taihape) showed a fine temperament and the foundations of a good game at Shirley, but did not play here last year. M. Moore (Titahi) is apparently not taking part, but J. F. Pym will prove a useful representative of the club, judging by his close-fought final for the club championship with Moore recently. ' Amongst former Wellingtonians entered from the Auckland Club is lan MacEwan. J. Duncan (Wellington) is again evidently on his game, having won the Marlborough tourney. P. G. Whitcombe is the only one of the younger Heretaunga players to go north, but he should give a good account of himself. F. Rutter appears the most prominent absentee amongst the professionals. Leo Quin is mentioned by tho "New Zealand Herald" as competing, but ho is not amongst the telographed entrants. Quin is temperamentally well fitted to succeed in the Amateur, and, if he is in anything like the form he displayed in 1924 at Middlemore, when he won the amateur New Zealand title, holing chipshots and putting automatically, he should1 be heard of. The eye trouble which practically prevented him from playing golf at all for a season or two, would seem to havo been overcome. Amongst the,scratch Auckland golfers mentioned as useful are G. F. Gunson and H. B. Brisden. Brisden has been playing erratically for some time. He is said to have regained form, in which case he will have to be reckoned with, as his work with iron, mashie, and putter is very sound when his peculiar style allows him to time them right: The Middle Run nine-hole links on Mr. W. H. Booth's property at Carterton will be remembered by Wellington golfers whd have had the privilege of playing over them as being compact, and thus the players selected for attention by the magpie were never far enough from its mate's nest to lull its suspicions. There are many instances of magpies annoying golfers, particularly in their nesting season. Between the fifth green and the sixth tee at Heretaunga there was one which frequently made concentration on shots in .the vicinity difficult.