GOLF

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10881, 27 April 1929, Page 10

GOLF

\ A CANNON SHOT,

A curious case occurred in a 'recent lour-bal! match on a- Cheshire course. 'A and B were playing G and D, and the first two botli holed out in -5. C putted for a 4 and just failed to hole .out. and the putt lining conceded by the opposing couple. D, standing at the hole knocked away C’.s ball with his putter. Ln so doing lie struck his own ball with C’s. The question is what penalty was incurred. if any. D incurs a penalty of one stroke under rule 12 (3) — “Wlien a ball is in play, if a player move his ball, or by touching anything cause -it to move,, the penalty shall be one stroke.” You will observe that under this rule thei'e is no provision for replacing the ball and D ought to play it, from the position into which he has.moved it by striking it with C’s bull.

TEN HOLES IN ONE. WilJie Marks the professional attached to. the Royal Club de Belgique lias. accomplished what is assuredly a record in having done ten holes in one in six different countries, namely, three in Spain, two in Germany, two’ in England, one in Belgium. one .in France, and one m Switzerland.

LEFT ARM FOR GLIDE. Nature seems to have provided us with otir left arms for guiding purposes. While we pull the trigger to fire a riffe with the right fingers, the left arm acts as the prop and sights the gun for us. In golf it has even a greater usage, ft not only acts as a prop to guide 'on most shots, but it supplies much of the power. Take AI Espinosa or Tommy Armour, both grand golfers, and watch-them pitch. Veil’d be surprised at how straight each keeiis his left arm all through the shot

AI uses his only as guide, but to bit with on his mashie pitch. And lie does keep it straight and I mean by that both the left arm and the ball. If you will take your mashie. even to-day at. home, and experiment with it in making, practice swings, you’ll find that it is quite possible to swing tlie club through and out alter the ball if the left arm is kept straight both back and • down providing the body does not sway. You’il also find, if the right is similarly used, that the tendency is for you to pull the club around and up over the left shoulder a bit too quickly, a move that pulls it off line, the line you wish to strike your imaginary ball. Gse that left arm straight. It’s your only guide in golf—Sol Metzger.

NOTES AND NEWS. Touching on the long driving controversy the case of a couple of American players who have been achieving merit in that direction may be Worth considering. One is an amateur, Phillips 'Finlay, a Harvard undergraduate, who recently averaged 29-3 yards for fourteen consecutive drives'. The other is Clarence Gamber. a professional at the famous Pine-hurst course, to whom hilling a hall 3-50 yards is a commonplace happening. It is 'interesting to note that neither of these men is anywhore near the championship class. That goes to prove the truth of the axiom that mastery of the long shot is only the beginning of golf—it is the work in approaching and on the green itstlf that invariably pays best in the end. Victoria’ boasts something unusual in the way of golf courses, that belonging to the Moondai Country Club, which is now: nearing completion near Marysville. Two well stocked trout streams wind in and out of the fairways, and those who conic- to golf can remain to fish if they feel like it. It inay seem fascinating. Unit has its alarming aspects. . Probably there are no two forms of sport which so lend themselves to terminological inexactitude- as golf and fishing. The nineteenth hole of that club, towards the end of a, perfect day. wheii. the golfers and fishermen are getting well into their stride-and the umpteenth round of : drinks, should he something to write home about.