GOLF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 December 1924, Page 10

GOLF.

FIXTURES, December 26, 27, and 29-Christmas Tournament, Shirley, Christchurch/ January J, 2 and 3—New Ybhr Tournament, Balmacewen, Dunedin January T, 2 and 3—New Yehr Tournament, Miramar,- Welhrigton/

The great outstanding interest in the golfing world of Hawera is the question °f the course and "its purchase. I he sub-committee set up have done very well indeed and are very optimi'sic or success. The ladies, too are' taka uf 1 / been interest iii the scheme and will be a power of help to the club I he course continues in fine order, m f lves % . participants in the' summer competition every chance to put up good scores. There have been a xqries of capital: matches and interest promises to he well maintained. The fact that everyone has two lives deal to the keenness, of. the contest. * in?i^t ° f qnd » pleastfe inS ' lGn the T*P id; headway the game is making, among all sections fLI WArt says an exchange first miff ¥ etro P? lll *n Police held their of nv ?f lf ? h ampicmslnp at Totteridge. nfvf L ?x dpn , wk<m 36 competitors took The wnv S aU l l lulsual departure in oS oft f ■ s P° rtl PS endeavour, and one not previously identified with the guardians of the peace. Seine very good scores were turned in. As far a™l k ” m Y’ v ° Ne ' V , Zealan J “bobbies” have W ta Ht n - I L P thp Spy/tl a h a Ancient, but with the municipal courses in nearly every principal city, there is no reason why they shouldn’t, and in tlie St V P ITi as \ n old London, there i be poheemen tournaments stageci in this country too. It i s i m _ whkh 1- t 0 • * rrest ” this at' golf, f IA-? a SeiZ r- lg upon old and young alike and making converts in all conditions and walks of life. Slicing is a bugbear to many an otherwise fairly _ good, player, and it seems at times impossible €0 cure J ffolfma f/Ti i° f ‘ thc beßt known in the g u,-- w Qr,ld, says:-—“There are numerous causes for slicing, many of ****•«. . °W> v?h coSon rnnA 1 - sll «ng is improper pivoting. The player does not get his left shoid der around This leads to allo^iTthe ml-t ; iai)d *?' take too prominent a whoJ thh ri ‘ yi f# the c - lub bgck - and Whqie this is the case it is practically I certain to .nieaq that the club-is lifted too quickly arid jerkily. And if the back swipg is faulty. K poor rt,4e Is almost sure to result. To avoid this tiouble make sure that the left hand tbe rriT r i 1 tbe woi ' k of taking fkA C i b .This will mean that the left shoulder will have to swino- around propedy, and alsq that the club ho the fiT- c + a ? k Ip - W . along the ground for fi i U l Qh ??- 0,1 a swing you should be 1 coking at the hall over the point of the left shoulder. Another common cause of slicing i s over-anxiety to hit the ball. Don’t’be ZJ, fU a hur F-, the club nntVr +i ltb i a g [ adl,al .increase of speed until the hands are about level with the waste before you begin to apply the :a n/r r f e ' Th f l1 ' of course, there are Tend d . f r oiintes - kee P your head steady and your eye on the ball. You

need not worry about the .followthrough. If the stroke is properly made, the club will carry on through without any attention to; that point.” With all due deference 't© these high authorities, an ordinary golfer says he believes most of it is due to riot watching the ball. The finest exposition of “keeping the eye on the ball,” the failure to do which is actually the cause of most of our troubles, was given by Gene Sarazen in the slow motion picture. It_ was an object lesson. The Miramar Golf Club lias issued an interesting programme for its New :Yea r tournament, to be played on the Miramar links, Wellington, on Thiirsday, Friday, and Saturday, January 1 -ft and 3, 1925. The main event is trie Miramar Open -Championship, for Winch 16 qualify out of two rounds of stroke play, and the match will be over 18 holes. In conjunction with the qualifying rounds a 36 hole stroke handicap is to .be played, and all the competitors except 'the last eight in the championship, are to. be grouped according to handicaps and play for k , championship of each group. In addition there will he bogey "and stroke handicaps, and a foursome stroke handicap. Ihe entries close with the secretary, T. R. Lawson, P.O. Box 493 on Saturday, December 27. The broad grin that salutes Great Britain when defeated nine.matches to three at golf, 30 to 10 goals at'polo, qnd 12 to four first places at the yiympic Games, is slowly' dying away (writes an Englishman in America). It was merely a numerical 3 to 1: just trie difference in population average Why should a 35,000,000 nation think f up , a g aillst and clean up t'112,000,000_ nation? The remarks by this exile might have- served as a greater consolation to his countrymen before the All Blacks, representatives ot a million people, kicked off in Encr. land. &

tl „ m y doesn’t the old fool move on ? ” lou may as. well be patient, old man That s Professor Bloggs, who speaks twelve languages—and. has just missed Ins putt!” ' .Writing df. the play of Taylor ajid Herd in exhibition matches recently says;-‘Hit the morning 1 aylor beat ■ Hem m a thoroughly fnqndh- single by two and one, Uoth hajing played more good shots than, hu* °? e ®* is interesting tp note that during this round Taylor hit a. and , . completely off' the pipe of Ins m a sine. In the afternoon the members of the club took out qards arid pencils .to see what they could do against Taylor and Herd, each at plus four. Herd started'in the most astonishing style by holing the second,' 3/0 yards, m two., arid a. string of threes saw him out in 32. Coming home however, he allowed a stroke to srip here and there, .and in the end had to be content with a round: of 69 laylor also was o.ut in 32, the result of wonderfully accurate play thxoughqut, and his homeward,half of. 34. where the holes are both longer and slower was even better. If 'was a’delightful exhibition o,t golf, which could not pos-sibly-have been improved, upon bv anv member of tbe younger, school. He drove far and straight, banged the ball vlc ?? usl y out Of. tight and. sometimes rather wet lies through the green, and made not the vestige of a mistake on greens which gave full return for accurate' striking. Sandv Herd tin? ? aye i Cl ir Cll ’'h bl,t hp was not hitquite so straight as his of J friend, and was certainly not havpig -tie best of luck with his putts.” A golfer s bedtime story is one about b - 6 lAtle left arm which always minded its teacher and'kept straight. ihe London Golf Illustrated of October 17 contains the following: “Just as ?£££ to ' n pres ? comes the news that the Royal and Ancient Club have unanimously adopted the rules as re-a-y Special, Committee.” Ihe veteran; 'George S. Lyon. Ganaamateur champion, iB9B 1900 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1912 and 1914 appeared again In the final of the senior championship of Canada a short while ago, when he lost to F A iarker of Larifbton, bv one hole. The senior championship is open to players whose years exceed the half-century, but Mr Lyons easily qualifies, for his total Is sixty-six. I lus fours are golf trousers. Minus hves are golf shirts—minus five but-

• “George Gadcl, in spite of not ‘heelmg wed. played good golf for his 72.”

ihe Times of September 18. We understand Gadd is still ‘f-heeling’ very the^above' 1^1 b^s p k.Yj notwithstanding MIRAMAR CHAjMIPIONSHIP FINAL. POINTS WORTH NOTICE. Says the Wellington Post of the struggle between Arthur and John . V im^! n tor supremacy.:—“ln fact, . . of the finalists been playing steadily he would have secured a wm ot anything up to 8 up. Going to

wie eignteenth m the morning A Duncan was 1 up, but he lost the- hole in a somewhat unusual fashion. He was within easy app'roaching distance after tuo good shots, while J. Duncan, by Jf f as playiiig his usual terrific anrl +?’ bUt was suffering.from a hook, and the consequence was that he was frequently playing recoveries, and was dr,Vm ettll H Vi 6 of the long dnvei. At the eighteenth he elected i Jf.k ? ut the ditch on a penalty, but Ins fourth wa s still short. Playing feTl iu Xt Thot hlt the „ ph \ and the‘bah tell in lhat was all right as far as it S* that* b he tr f ble for A. Duncan pYS afbi t T dd T was holding the and’ tb?f 1 had oniy one thing to do, As+hY J OB to , glV r e U P hole. h j£ the years go by John Duncan, as he is better known in the golfing world has every chance of developing into the player New Zealand has yet veaJ U at d tb TllS 18 only about his fourth iff a r game, and he has not yet earned to control that huge drive of his. Aot many of my readers will rea. hse just what sort of trouble a lon* f d ew e of S + e b int ° Wi t b a hook, because frf, fi thCll l ? V€r drive a ball so far t at they get into the country the lon«' driver- 1 mean the really long drivergets into. It is a sort of virgin v ouU especially m a place like ‘'Miram?/ tee ln -nS U ?t a H *** the fl ‘ om the tee, and at the moment his only weakness i S a slight unsteadiness with this particular shot. His iron play and short work are excellent. His iroA shots f-ifrwV h i IOU - x nsm g flight dropping Mntft an f y 'n d 1 are und€r good control, witli splendid length In 'the course of another year or two, when he -■ft through his apprenticeship penodoroperly, he should make a very creditable sliowmg‘in New Zealand 4lf huZ:: nV J IG be considered as^be! plavpi-J 1 Y + e / n ' 8t rail is °f th e present +b b f , lle is expected to go furtf i than that. Temperamentally lie doesn t exhibit many flaws In addition to the incident I menled a f having occurred at the eighteenth hole m the morning in this championship final, A. Duncan was also the loser of a hole in another match—oun]pagflnStiH - *• H - Balneavis-a y b- P i f f lvee ]\ s a £°> in incident in which the caddy figured. On this occasion he was m as good a position as one could hope for in a bunker near the green. The caddy was careless in handf] 1 J? C J U S» dropped it, and the club hiu the ball. Duncan picked it up. ihese incidents are mentioned with a view to making this statement: that a

cadd;’ should be taught something about his duties before being allowed to collect fees for caddying, and that a player should ascertain before starting out whether liis caddy knows anything or not of the game. During the past few months there have been published in this column several articles on this subjeet, ancl it is intended to keep on mentioning th© matter until the. clublet us hope it is a local one- —adopts sofne. plan on the line of coaching its caddies that can be. held up to others as an example. In big clubs the caddy question is one that is important In other countries special attention ’has been paid to caches; they have been' coached in their duties, and in many places the clubs have even gone so far as to hold small tournaments for them Probably few, if any, of the local lads are equipped for a tournament, ancl this latter point is not stressed, hut there is surely some justification for expecting a club tO' consider its members to the extent on seeing that tlie,caddies are worth at least the price of their hire At the moment many of them are not ”

MAGIC GOLF BALL

“DRIVES OF 600 YARDS.”

' , LONDON, Nov. 11. Does anybody know the truth of ike story 0.1 the wonderful golf ball “amiflpg courses all oyer England, eauisng lpng handicap meii to imagine vain things?

It is asserted that the magic ball can easily be driven 600 yards, 'ikat It is grooved like a shell-band, and that it- whistles in its flight. The inventor, qn American, made a dozen of ihun, but he was nearly bribed by golfing interests to carry his secret to die grave. ,

Some of the originals were smuggled into England, where tney lell into the hands of a wealthy amateur. Using this ball, he won a bet- bv driving to the green, at a.par. live hole: ~