GOLF

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 August 1925, Page 12

GOLF

NOTES. What a family of golfers the Quins, of Eltham, Taranaki, are! (says a Southern paper). We read of L. and J. Quin defeating F. and 81. Quin, and the Misses F. and M. Quin all winning their matches in a competition. Leo Quin is, of course, at present the New Zealand amateur champion, and is in great "form.

The Grey Star tolls us that something new in the way of bunkers and hazards was experienced last week on a country golf course. The club is .indebted to a pair of prominent farmers for the use of their paddocks a® a course, and in the field where the first hole is played a number of prize Shorthorn cattle graze. The shot from, the first tee was a good! one, but on going to play again neither the hitter nor his partner could locate the hall. The herd was peacefully chewing the cud and gave no indications ol anything amiss. Another ball was produced, and the game .progressed until the spot was again visited, when the spectacle of ssi cow vigorously masticating something round and white aroused suspicions. A stern chase was set up, and the cow. evidently thinJdng discretion the better part of valour, dropped the massing ball. This contingency had not been allowed lor in the rule®, and members arc wondering what, the exact position is.

The Wellington courses are drying out gradually and recovering from the drowning of remorseless winter rains. Last week J. H. Drake was round in a brilliant 72 at Miramar in the Doughty Cup competition at Miramar, and at the same week-end A. Dt S. Duncan played the Heretaunga course in a faultless 70.

For the .second year in succession the Timia.ru Golf Club’s senior championship has been won by B. V. Wright, who is now only 18 years of 'age, and who also holds the Canterbury championship, won at Shirley last Easter; the South Canterbury championship, which lie won at Timaru last Juno for the second (Successive year, and the West Coast championship, Which ho won at Greymouth last August. The final was played off on Saturday in perfect weather over 36 holes, Wright? s opponent being E. A. Scott. In the morning round Scott, who was playing a great game, finished one up, but Wright struck form in the afternoon, and playing faultlessly carried all before him, winning the match .six up and five to play. Whitoombe, a young professional, did a record round’ of 70 in the Middlesex inter-club golf championship at Hadley Wood, beating Harry Vardon’s - 71, which had istood as the record for srm* time. HAWER-A LADIES’ CLUB. (By “Mashie.”) Tlie following is the draw for the championship: —Mrs. Wake v. Mies Quin, Mrs. Foyster v. Miss Wilson, Mrs. French v. 31ns. Thomson, Mrs. Dalgetty v. Mrs. Glasson. The first round begins on* Friday, 21st., and the time limit is September 3. It would probably surprise some members to know that their nonobservance of the rules of golf etiquette lias been duly noted and unfavourably- commented" upon by various fellow members who have been more or less irritated by it. The dissatisfaction engendered has not reached the .stage of formal complaint, but, as it is not confined to only one or two individual®, it cannot be ignored altogether as mere peevish disgruntlement. Neither does the cause lie at the door of only one or two, nor is it assumed that annoyance is -being purposely given by anyone. _ At, any rate here are some of the things to whioh exception ha® been taken: —Painful tardiness in getting from the tees; to the greens, combined with an obtuse disregard for faster players coming on behind, hitting on the heels of those in front, cutting in, going through without asking permission, jumping the place of others on the round by cutting in at the fourth hole after more than three pair® have started from tho first tee. Anyone who has been doing any of these things should get a rule book and study the chapter on golf etiquette. Rules- are* often better fixed in the mind by a penalty incurred through some infringement. Those who think a lost ball necessarily means a lost liole should look up rule 22 to find that the penalty is not so bad as all that.