ON THE LINKS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 253, 20 September 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

ON THE LINKS

SHORT AND LONG PUTTS. THE GAME AND ITS PLAYERS. World’s Worst. The worst grumbler in the world U the man who complains of getting a bad lie for his tee shot. Fair and Warmer. Two caddies, Laving finished tho day’s work, were cximmuiung .upon their experiences. }Vot sort °* * bloke did you get for y°ur second round?” asked one. Well, replied the other, “when he was on the fairway the was a perfect gent, but when he was in a bunker ’e was worsen a war book.” Digging Deep. A beginner of golf was having a bad time at a bunker: 111. more heaven and earth before I admit myself beaten,” he growled. “You’re getting on that way, sir, said his caddie. “Another shot or two and there’ll be only heaven left to shift.” Great Strain. Bobby Jones writes regarding the terrific strain which he endured while waiting for the leaders to come in during the recent British open championship: —“As I sat in the clubhouse while Diegel, Compston, and Macdonald Smith were playing the last nine holes, I felt very much aa the defendant in a murder trial must feel as he waits for the jury to come in.’^ Time for Play. Kenneth Greig, the 22-year-old commercial traveller, who recently won the Scottish amateur golf championship, is the links champion of St. Andrews where he learned all his golf. Tall and well built, he is a stylish player. In the final for the Scottish championship he beat, nine up and eight to play, James Wallace, a shipyard worker, of Troon, Portland, a plodding workmanlike player, with little or no finesse about his golf. Lady Exponent. Miss Olive Kay, the youthful New Zealand player crossed the Tasman this season, ana entered for the Australian ladies’ championship, and did so well that she got to the semi-finals before being put out by Miss Susie l'olhurst, ol Melbourne, who ultimately took the championship. In Mis* Kay, New Zealand possesses an outstanding player, and the lessons she must have learnt at the Commonwealth championship tournament will still further improve her play, say* an exclHfcnge. Vulnerable Point.

I listened with much interest and not a little astonishment to'a theory evolved this week by a golfer who at least, does not lack originality, comments a writer in an exchange. This ingenuous—not to say ingenious—gentleman propounds the remarkable proposition that a golf ball if hit on the maker’s name will travel appreciably further than if hit elsewhere. The only reason he advances for this phenomenon is that the ball cover is finished off where the name is put, and is therefore Larder on that spot. This scientifically-inclined sportsman, might well reflect on two points: Firstly, whether the basis of his reasoning—namely, that the name is on the spot where the ball cover is join, ed—has anything of truth in it;, and, secondly, whether if such is the case, the makers would not have made a big advertising point out of it. A visit to a. golf ball factory would probably dispel the first point immediately. There is no end to the making of theories. Great Figures. What is claimed to be a world’s record was put up on the Pleasant Run course in America the other day bv the local professional, Herman Übele,' who put up for the 18 holes the phenomenal score of 60. He had one eagle, 11 birdies, and par' for the remainder of the holes. The course is 6044 yards —nearly as long as most of the standard courses in England and America. TLepar for the Pleasant Run course is t3 —l3 strokes more than Übele took. It is reported that Übele played with machine-gun. precision. Ho must have. His figures for the round were:—Out, 3, .4, 4, 3 2.4, 3, 3, 3—29. In, 4,3, 3,2, 4’ 4,4, 3, 4—31. The Englishman, George Duncan, once did 18 holes in Switzerland in 50, but this was not a standard course. Indignant.

Much indignation has been caused m the ranks of the New Zealand Professionals Association through the action of the Golf Council limiting the entry of the professionals in the open championship at Palmerston North to 20 members, says an exchange. Durmg the last two years all members of j “.G.A. were allowed to- compete, and naturally the “pros.” who will be left out; at the forthcoming meeting 2, re , S a bit sore over tne matter. Probably the Golf Council is looking at the financial end of it, seeing the pros, do not pay any entrance fee; but to some of the professionals this is a serious matter,- as being left out through not being good enough as a j senousl y affect their business. It does not necessarily follow, because* a “pro.” is a good piayer, that he is as good a teacher, and his less fortunate brother may be "lL r^.^ COa<;h - an d only a moderate i ay m‘ v ke Professionals think there should be no restrictions in this entry , n hich should be allowed them as fo , r hard season’s have done in the inwfuL ° f .game. If the entrv has become unwieldly and the fields Iverv h !“ t hey ask why not make ® nt rant play two or more qualiw+e rol l This would get at the ° f the difficulty, if that, is the