GOLF.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18571, 25 November 1920, Page 10

GOLF.

(By "THE CADDIE") The ladies' gol? tournament at Balmaoewen was brought to a conclusion on Saturday (says a Dunedin paper). The final of the championship was between Mrs Cook, who had beaten Mrs M'Carthy the previous day at the twentieth hole, and Mrß Orbell, of Oamaru, who had beaten Miss Humphreys, or Christchurch, 4 up and 3 to play. Mrs Cook won the first hole and lost the following two. The next ! three Were halved, and Mrs Cook squared the match at the seventh, Mrs Orbell playing a poor second. • . Then Mrs Orbell secured five holes running, the first of the sequence being a splendid 3 at the Monastery, making her 5 up, with only 6to go. Mrs Cook, however, showed herself a perfect match player- She won the thirteenth in a perfect 5, notwithstanding that she was stymied and, continuing, secured Roys, Spion Kop, and Hawthorn, leaving her i down with 2to play. The Gums was halved in 3's, but the Inst hoi© went to Mrs Orbell, who thus won, 2 up. j Mrs Orbell, it will be remembered, was runner-up to Miss Wright in the New Zealand ladies' championship played at Shirley links this year. Slfe has shown consistently good form all through the season, and will probably be one of the most important competitors in the big ladies' events next year. Christchurch ladies have taken part in most of tho big outside tournaments, and have generally managed to give a good account of themselves, although none has brought art outside championship home for this season Of the men, two players who were until recently resjidenifc of Christchurch and members of the Shirley Club, have made big impressions in the districts in which they now reside. Jl. B. Lnsk is recognised in Auckland as one of the best players in the north, and L. Carter, one of tho young generation, won the championship of Nelson. Next Saturday the Christchurch Club will hold hocr-y handicaps for members. ;. Duncan in somo interesting articles entitled •' Your _ Golfing Faults" gives p-jme valuable hints on long hitting. He says there is a quaint tendency among golfers to loan towards the ball. -They seem to think if thev get'their heads closer to it they will see it better. "It would be almost correct if I wrote in the way of advice and told you to stand as far away from the ball as vou can," Duncan goes on. " You cannot get the feeling of bnlanco while addressing the ball unless there is quite a considerable amount of weipht felt upon your heels. So much with truth in several cases, has been written about the weight'that should be resting on the left big toe. ... Be sure it is not at the address, hut at tho tip of the swing- " Have the weight of your bodv on the heels when addressing the- ball, ff vou do that and ' sit down ' you will find what a huge difference there is in the se_nse of control that yon have over the club Your arms feel as if they have nothing whatever to prevent them from taking the club no correctlv and bringing it down to tho ball with as much force as you are capaVo." Bnifd has always been emoted as developing from a vorv sJwrt driver into one pf the longest in the world. No f>>;planation has ever been given, but Duncan hhvs that when Braid was a short dtiver bo wns > using a chib with nn upright lie. This was supposed in thosß days to he the correct thing. When Braid stood close, nn to the balil, took an upright swine with square shoulders, he was getting verv straight bnt. not vfcrv far. One dav Braid handled a club which he liked, and it hannened to be ono with a flat lie-. Tu order to use this club coiTectlv he had to stand further nwnv from tho hnll, nit down and depress the ri«ht shoulder a', little instead of keeping, his shoulders Fnuare. Hint day. was the dnv when Braid came along with nn additional twentv to thirtv vards to his drive, and Duncan is. confident that the use of the flat club was the cause of it. From nn upright swim? Braid chanced his ati*k« to a flat Bwiny. .There is nnother thine: to note, and that is that ■Rrnid had to put more weight on his rich*, leg in order to^ make room f o i that flatter swine. Curious, but Vardon ' is an uTtright swinger, but. Tises rather 1., flut lie driver. Duncan sums tm: Your' weight^should be on th« nVht lee mainly when you are addressina: the balls, then as your club meets the ball your weight should be following thr> club and thus going after the ball. i In driving Vardon recommends thfe same thing, thouch the weight (•ties,the reverse in iron r>lay. Bv this menus von eet vonr hndUv weicht behind the shot and add that, power to tho swine of the club, which might mean in vour caß"'. the addition of a few vards of distance as it did in whoso rase Duncan rtuotes in order to convince that thif, which benefits so PTP«t 1 a olaver as Braid, may and no doubt ■HI) imjmyw« tjkj reader's sl%y.