GOLF.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 19 January 1912, Page 2

GOLF.

A challenge cup has been offered by an American player which will be to golf what the Davis Cup is to tennis. An International trophy, the donor's idea is that it should be for a teams match of four players on a side representing any country—36 holes, match play, in singles, country two points, 18 holes, four hall matches, and 18 holes, foursome play, counting one point each. The side making the best aggregate would win the.brophy, and it would be played for in their country. The U.S. Golf Association should be custodian in America, and the first match played over the National Course of America. The Royal and Ancient Club should be custodian in Great Britain, and St. Andrews the course for the first match in that country. The matches would be for amateurs only, and though this might cause a little trouble owing to the different definition of amateurs in the two countries, the donor considers that a little mutual concession won.

get over that.

Jack White, a golfer of very great repute, in some hints to golfers, urges that putting; should be c^ne always from the toe of the club. He says he d this himself. Certainly, writes Horace Hutchinson, he coaxes his ball into the hole a good deal more often and at a longer range, than most people. But there are some players just as good on the green, and in especial, two amateurs with whom White has been closely assa-

ciated, who put/ <$ ' the extreme heel. Evidently, there, is no orthodox nile, though one wotlld * Have - thought that for a straight putt the centre of.tjhe face, for a drag *'from the off or. from the leg' as a cricketer would say, the ends would be used., Twq ones in a single round must be a record. It is held by Macnamara, an Irish professional, and' Mr John Irelandj a Cambridgo man, captain last year at cricket and also at golf. Four twos were scored by L. Ayton'at Bishop's Stortford. Incidentally it may be mentioned that ha'did two rounds in 67 and 69. Pretty solid going.

Captain Harvey,, a very fine golfer, belonged to the famous "Black Watch" Highlanders, and went through the disastrous fight at Magersfontein during the South'African'war.