SEASON DRAWING NEAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 22

SEASON DRAWING NEAR

PROVINCIAL TITLE

AMERICAN'S VISIT

The golf season will soon be in full swing. Players will find the fairways heavy' compared with most former years, but. against this they .will'be. very fully grassed, and where they ' have been kept cut during all this growing weather, the surfaces should be wellnigh perfect. The Easter tournament will mark the beginning of a year that should produce remarkable golf. Several players who during the.dark days gave up the game may be, expected back again, , while there will be "the customary spate of fresh enthusiasts amongst whom, as-usual, there are sure to be promising players with a season or so behind them. The fact that the Easter provincial tourney is being held at Miramar is partly because'the course at Heretaunga where this tournament is usually held is undergoing improvements which will make some of its holes stiff tests of golf, besides generally adding to the attractiveness of the prettiest course.in New Zealand. It is by arrangement with the "Wellington Golf Club that the fixture is to be played at Miramar, -where special treatment of the greens and fairways, coupled with the unusually wet summer, has resulted in a .state of perfection at this time of year seldom previously achieved. It is probably the first year that Miramar has not been burned up by January. Play in the provincial championship should be both enjoyable and good in the circumstances. The holder, J. P. Hornabrook, will be hard to dispossess, but golf is an uncertain game. Of late years there has been less tendency to travel to this fixture from other parts of New Zealand, but with the brighter outlook a formidable field may be seen amongst which, it is hoped, may be some of the younger players who did so well at Ngamotu in the national meeting. The dates of the tournament are March 27, 29, and 30, and entries close by March 16.