GOLF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 10

GOLF

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NOTES FROM HERE ANO THERE.

Waipukurau had a runaway win againrt I’arkvale on the Makakere links during last week-end. The only redeeming feature of the Parkvale team was the win of T. Garrod over W. J. Bishop. Tom turned on some very fine golf, and just got home on the post. 11 is was an exceedingly good performance.

HASTINGS CLUB MATCHES.

Several matches of the first round of the Hastings club championship have been played. The only upset so far was the defeat of Roy White at the hands of S. Averill. White has been showing good form of late, and it was expected that he would at least reach tho second round. Never, theless, Averill’s win was fully deserved. Ho has been playing up to his best form, and is at the present time full of confidence, which, after all, is a big factor in tho winning of golf matches. There should be some good matches in both grades in the second round. “Bricky” Budd has an even chance of carrying off the honours in the A Grade, apd A. J. Grant looks the most likely winner of the B Grade championship, but there are several players in both grades who might easily upset all calculations.

H. G. Davies and H. A. Fannin had a great battle. Fannin commenced really well and had the good lead of four up at the seventh, but from this stage onwards, Davies by consistent golf, gradually reduced the lead, the match being all square at the 16th. Fannin lost the 17th through indifferent golf. Davies, at this critical stage became one up, to eventually win. Although tho golf was not what one would describe as brilliant, it was nevertheless a good game.

J. Campbell and T. Garrod had a rare tussle. Campbell played very soundly, and eventually won. He can eat up the space, and on his best day he is hard to beat.

Other winners of the A. Grade matches were J. L. Paterson, who defeated C. Walker; G. Saunders, who beat R. O'Donghue ; “Bricky” Budd, who defeated E. A. Mnrley; S. Aaverill. who won from Roy White, and W. Matthews, who defeated G. N. Pharazyn.

H. de Denne did well to win from R. E. Elliott in the first round of the B Grade. They had a real finht, and carried on the good work right on to the 20th green.

F. S. Cnndy, wh-. has been showing consistent good golf lately, won from P. Wako. He should just about win his wav through to the final. J. Barraclougb after a bad start, defeated E. Moore. The-a is nothing spectacular about Bnrraclough's game. Most players might outdrive him, hut if he loses anything in that way. he more than makes up for it in the way of accuracy.

Walter Hagen says that most good golfers play the run-up exactly as they putt. The main difference is that the run-up has a longer follow through, solely because it is a longer shot, and the hands are necessarily further from the body. The position of the hands is due to the mashie itself. It has a greater angle between the shaft and clubhead; hence you stand a bit further from the ball. * * * CLUBHEAD MUST LEAD. The great big idea in golf, tho dominant one, if the star player knows what he is doing, is to swing the clubhead through ahead of the hands, arms and body. It must lead. That is what counts It may be surprising to many, but the job of analysing the golf swing is ever a complex one. Few who play well know why. Even fewer top-notchers are as honest as “Wild Bill” Melhorn, who admits he doesn’t know how he hits the ball. But when “Wild Bill” is going strong he sets as dizzy a par-breaking pace as anyone. “MIGHT BE A CHAMPION.” A stranger from another State had been following Whitton and B. 11. Bettington in the New South Wales golf championship nt Kensington (Sydney) recently. The stranger remained a silent spectator for some time, but eventually, in aggrieved tones, he cominented to another bystander: “Why does this chap (meaning Ivo Whitton) go at his shots in such bull-beaded fashion? If only he would take more time and care with his shots he might become a champion. What the Dickens docs he go so fast for?” The bystander said; “But he is already a champion—that is Ivo Whitton, four times open champion of Australia.”

“You don’t say so! And I always had an idea that crack golfers were like chess-players—took no end of time to do a .very little,” replied the stranger.

It is understood that Carnegie Clark , (for many years professional at Royal Sydney links, Rose Bay), is retiring from the golfing business. Front rank professionals make good money these days. Clark was open champion of Australia in 1906, 1910, and 1911. In his best days be was noted for his deadly accuracy with a mashie. He could take a dozen balls and from a distance of 60 or 70 yards, drop them one after the other within a few feet of the pin. When asked how he contrived to develop such efficiency, he replied, “By practising that one stroke for three hours on end every day,’