GOLF

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 February 1925, Page 10

GOLF

; Some of the enthusiasts are keeping their eye in on Saturdays' by having some practice on the show grounds. The lurl there is excellent and the grass nice and short. It is a. good place for the purpose. The show grounds are .attracting quite a lot oi sports interests. J.t is a good scheme for the .sports, and will also, tend in a considerable measure to jxepuluri.se the grounds. it has always seemed regrettable that more use could not be made of these grounds in the off season. Older residents will remember the Bayly Park scheme of focussing all sports on the one ground, that in lii.raeli Street, and how near it seemed at one time to success. The show grounds and the ‘park ha ve centred in them now quite a. number oi the sports bodies. Perhaps in time to come they will have more and ■ they will be a real sports centre. Wanganui Clubs are both holding summer contests. Their courses are reported to be in,. excellent order. Wanganui is fortunate in having two such fine links. Great enthusiasm in summer golf is being shown, by members. Beaver and Jones in a fourball match returned a fine card of eight upon, bogey. New Plymouth Club’s course at Waiwakaiho is also in fine order, . and members are enjoying good summer golf. Recently H. E. Sinclair, playing at Moore Park, Sydney, had a. morning round of 65, made up as follows: Out, 4 3 4 4 3 3 5 3 5—34; in, 434443 3 3 3—3l—-65. On. the Saturday he was out in 4 4 3 4 3 4 s 4 3 4 —33; in. 44444343 4—34—67. Two remarkable round's. The chief point to remember in the matter of tension, in. the grip is that the muscles that control the finger action are not to be contracted so that the wrists and forearms are tightened up beyond moderate flexibility. You must keep your wrists reasonably flexible to play golf well. On, the other baud, to try to hit a golf ball with loose, fiabbv grip is sure to register failure. Grip the club lightly enough to maintain complete control over it at all times. Such tension is needed in imparting the bitting force, and also is necessary in. keeping the club liead from turning if it doesn’t hit the ball exactly in. the centre. —Jock Hutchinson . Golfers have all heard of, and most of them “holed out in one, v at the nineteenth hole, but twentieth has been originated in the States. It has come out of the absorption in the “cross word puzzles” shown, by golfersi arid rather recalls in that respect the puzzle of getting three beads to the centre of a series of small channels like a maze, which absorbed so many a year or two ago. The 20th is said to lx? more absorbing than the most popular 19th, but this: is hard to believe. However, this is certain-” that" the 20th is harder to deal with than, the 19th.