SEASON CLOSING

Evening Post, Issue 86, 8 October 1936, Page 26

SEASON CLOSING

BUSY LABOUR DAY

AWKWARD STANCES

Competitions between tne major clubs finished last Saturday, and Hutt emerged the winner of the Crawford Crescent for the second year in succession. This year the win was on all four matches played; last year the Hutt Club had three wins. This is a triangular contest played between the Hutt, Wellington, and Miramar Clubs. Miramar had previously won the Squadron Cup, which is played for annually between Miramar and Wellington. Shandon won both the Watt and Ranish Cups. The inter-club play has been interesting, but, chiefly owing to rough weather and heavy courses, there was not so much brilliant golf as in some former seasons. Only a few club championships remain to be decided.

It is rather a pity that the Labour Day weekend comes in the span of the dates fixed for the national championship meeting, October 22-31. There is a wealth of tournaments which may preclude the attendance of members of the clubs putting them on. The only tournament of importance which will not clash is at Palmcrston, which will be played on October 15, 16, and 17. This will probably attract some of the golfers who seek competition afield, but who are tied by their own club tournaments on the Labour Day weekend. Napier, Featherston, Hutt, Picton, Taihape, Hamilton, Hawera, Masterton,. Titahi, and Auckland are holding tournaments on Labour Day weekend, and there is the Keturned Soldiers' tourney at Miramar on October 22. This will not prevent any amateurs likely to do well from taking part in the New Zealand Open or Amateur, but it may lessen what would otherwise perhaps prove an unwieldy field at New Plymouth. Every year the entrants for the- national meeting increase in number. So far they have shown better quality in the longer handicap men admitted, and this year should be no exception. The Hutt Club is sending a useful contingent in Rana Wagg, J. L. Black, Bryan Silk, G. Ward, and J. Grace. Members of clubs who cannot enter for the major events at New Plymouth owing to home tourneys will in several cases enter at New Plymouth for some of the handicap events, and follow the semi-finals and final of the amateur.