HAGEN & KIRKWOOD

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

HAGEN & KIRKWOOD

WHY "JOE" LOSES PRIZES

The visit of Hagen and Kirkwood will be another link with overseas golf. Every year, it seems New Zealanders are to have visits by either distinguished ■ amateurs or professionals, and this would seem to show that the Dominion is becoming recognised as a true golflng country. Such visits have an influence on the game which is all to the good. In the two who land ;in New Zealand .• tomorrow there will be much to study. Hagen is the more serious tournament player of the two, Kirkwood never being able to resist the appeal of playing shots in important matches in his .own inimitable way. If they come off, and they generally do, he gains a stroke, but if they do not he may lose a couple, but the impulse to gamble with himself is apparently irresistible.. The importance of ;the event merely makes t'e gamble more attractive. This was the case in the Texas open at San Antonio last February. \ . MONUMENT TO SHOT. Kirkwood gave . the natives something to talk about for some time, and for fear ttiey'd stop discussing it they decided to build a monument to stand as a constant reminder, says the "New York Tribune." . ■ / This stone shaft will be hidden in the,rough on the seventh hole, for it was there that Joe executed, his marvellous stroke. L long drive with a decided hook left Joe in trouble. The hole, a par 4 affair, has a narrow fairway. A ribbon of ' water skirts its entire length on the right. It was this that caused Joe to hook his tee shot.

. But a hook to avoid the creek does not always ensure safety. . As Kirkwood approached his drive he found the ball resting not more : than six inches from a tree. A clump of trees completely obscured the green. The only obvious method open was to waste a shot by chipping back to the