GOLF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 December 1928, Page 12

GOLF.

THE SUMMEB PBAY. Members of both the men’s and the ladies’ clubs are still keen on the “out of season" play, as it really is. But the weather for some weeks or so, until this week has been really too oppressive unless players prepare for such conditions by appropriate dress. The greens have been in very good order, and the fairways, with the exception of two and some portions of others, have been quite satisfactory. The late warm rains, followed by hot sun, will cause the grass to bolt a bit, and this will need checking. Some mowing would appear to be essential. Most of the big clubs carry on all the year round and there are a number of unristmas and New Year tourneys as well as local matches, but these clubs generally are- in a position that enables them to keep men and motor mowers on the course. Por really good conditions these factors are essential.

NOTES. Manawatu asked the Golf Council for consideration; of tlie !N".Z. amateur and open championships for 1929, but as Wanganui had already made application and received favourable consideration, the former could not ,be allotted the tourney. Bater in the season the, Wanganui course will be inspected. As Wanganui had the champiouships some years ago, when John Goss won the amateur, and the course was quite satisfactory, it seems pretty certain then it will go there once more. It is a fine thing for a club to secure the most important event of the golfing year for) the Bominion. At a meeting of the New Zealand Golf Association held recently it was decided to notify the Wanganui club that the council would have a preliminary inspection of the Belmont course made with the view of holding the championships meeting there next year. As a preliminary step towards the next Kirk Windeyer Cup (won last year by New South Wales) contest it was resolved to write to, the Australian. Golf Union advising that body that New Zealand is prepared to send a team to Australia in 1929. At last week’s meeting of the Golf Council, correspondence was received from the Manawatu, Wellington and Napier Golf Clubs with regard to, the professionals’ autumn tournament in 1929, and a telegram was reecived from the Napier Club stating that it was agreeable to holding the tournament late in February. The forthcoming tournaments had been advised to the association: Invercargill, December 26, 27 and 2S; Christchurch, Becember 26, 27 and 29; Miramar, January I, 2 and 3; New Plymouth, March 30, April .1 and 2.

A few weeks ago there was a painful exposure at o-ne of the clubs in Victoria, involving the expulsion of a member fox the theft of a. brassy from a fellow member. Almost on the same day an equally disagreeable thing happened in London, the consequence being that two compulsory.resignations were sent in to the club concerned. The “Weekly Despatch’s” account of the incident says that two members of a leading club allegedly returned faked score cards. It seems that these “medal winners’’ —medal play has a lot to answer for in tempting frail humanity—usually played together in such competitions, one or the other often winning. This aroused suspicion, because it was remarked that they could not produce the some form in private matches. So the committee had the men secretly watched while playing in a similar competition, which one of them won. According to’ the evidence of the detectives the score returned was not a correct record of the strokes played, and they also reported that one of the players had improved the lie of his ball.