A BETTER FINISH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 27

A BETTER FINISH

Miramar, is, looking very well just now, the fairways and greens leaving little to' be desired.. The ■ re-arrange-ment of the: holes is commented on favourably. The new ninth is nearer the club house than the old, and one of the features of the change round that greatly appeals is the substitution of the old fifteenth and sixteenth for the former seventeenth and eighteenth, both of which were rather characterless holes, on which only the long hitters has the chance of low scoring. The hew seventeenth (the old fifteenth) is one of the most interesting holes at Miramar. The placing of the drive, especially "with a cross wind is of great importance. To get within the mouth of the gap is the ideal. It would be easy to play short of the gap, and open 'up the dog leg to 'the green, but the shot to the green is one calling for perfect placing, with marram grass on the left, rough behind a bank at the back of the green, and a steep bank below the green ort the right. Players therefore like to shorten their pitch to the green as much as possible by get.ting length from the tee, and that is where most of the trouble arises. A hooded drive may finish in very rough country on the top of the hill, while a slice/especially in a; northerly, may wind up in all sorts of trouble. As a crucial hole in hard-fought matches the seventeenth will be appreciated. The new eighteenth is also a hole where the drive must be placed, especially by long hitters, ■■■while . the pitch to the green is one calling for judgment.