GOLF

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 245, 14 September 1938, Page 15

GOLF

NOTES ON THE GAME. (By “Bunker.”) The Alanawatu Golf Club will visit Napier this week-end to play Waiohiki (holders) for the Wilson Cup. After the defeat of the Manawatu A team by Wanganui last week-end at Belmont prospects for a victory do nob look very bright. j K. Glendinnning (captain and scratch player) has not been playing as well during the past two weeks as he was a' month ago. However, playing against i Brian Silk at Wanganui last weekend. Glendinning extended Silk and was beaten only after a very close match. O. H. Williams, handicap two player, will probably partner Glendinning, and if Williams is on his game the Napier first two players will find the Manawatu pair a hard nut to crack. N. S. Triggs, a Manawatu Club player, participated in the Hawke’s Bay tournament. Triggs won the medal handicap, played oil Thursday. HAWKE’S BAY CHAMPIONSHIP.

H. D. Brinsden (Titiraiigi) lost his second title this season when he was beaten in the final of the Hawke’s Bay championship? at Waiohiki (Napier) last Saturday by H. J. Longstaff. Brinsden won the Hawke’s Bay championship in 1937In the recent Rotorua championship Brinsden (1937 winner) was beaten in the quarter-finals by E. Drummond after being two up with three to go. Playing the sixteenth, across the edge of the lake, Brinsden hooked his drive, but was still left with a reasonable recovery shot to the green over the bunkers. However, he was trapped, and eventually lost the hole to Drummond’s 5. At the short seventeenth the Titirangi player shanked his tee shot, and could not get his three, Drummond thus squaring the game. Brinsden’s sequence of errors continued' from the tee at the final hole, for lie topped his drive; though the ball trickled down the hill he could not make the green in two. Drummond played two sound shots to leave himself a putt for a 3, and won the hole, and match, with a 4.

At Napier on Saturday both Longstaff and Brinsden played good golf over the first 18 holes of tire final, but Longstaff had slightly the better of the game and went to lunch two up. The second 18 holes resulted in steady and at times brilliant golf- by both players. At the first hole Brinsden recovered well from a bunker to hole a longish putt for a half in four. At the second Brinsden failed to reach the green with his second, Longstaff taking the hole in four. At the third Brinsden, with a well-played birdie four, reduced the lead to two - up. At the next hole Longstaff again increased his lead to three. The next four holes were halved, and Longstaff turned three up for the last nine holes. Brinsden took the tenth in a par four, to be two down. The next two' holes were halved in par figures, and at the return, after Brinsden thud visited the bunker, Longstaff became three up with a birdie three. At Kuropo’s Longstaff played three to lay Brinsden a dead stymie, and the latter played a brilliant chip over his opponent’s ball right into the cup to win, reducing his opponent’s lead to 2 up. The next two holes were halved in par figures to make Longstaff dormie two. Brinsden took the 17th with a good 2 and the last hole was halved in 4, giving Longstaff the' match, l'up.

Blind Golfer For America. AV. H. J. Okenham, a blind golfer, who plays on a handicap of 22, has gone from England to America to play in exhibition games. He has never seen a golf course. “I took up golf by chance five years ago. I said to a friend that I would like to have a ‘crack.’ He gave me a club, told me how to swing, and I hit the ball straight down the fairway.” Travelled Caddy. Wherever Ferrier is playing in a championship, Don Rogers, the most travelled'caddy in Australia, is seen with the champion’s clubs. Fer- J rier pays a grateful tribute to Don, who, from start to finish, gives advice and encouragement. Ferrier will never forget the time lie did not take Don’s advice at the 17th at Seaton, during the Australian championship in 1936, when a 7 caused him to lose by one stroke. Don- wanted to go to England with Ferrier in . 1936, when the Australian was beaten by Hector Thomson, in the final of the British amateur championship. “If I had been there he would have romped home,” says Doii. Locke Again. Sensational golf was played by A. D. Locke, the South African golfer, who is to visit Australia and New Zealand in a four-ball'challenge match at Walton Heath, Surrey recently. . Held spellbound, one of the largest golf crowds ever seen in’ England witnessed Locke indulging in “fireworks,” which dazzled even the most hardened veterans from .the .moment when, from the 14th tee, Locke hit two perfect wood shots to, the flag 560. yards away, and narrowly missed an “eagle” three. Locke’s afternoon round was 15 under bogey. At one stage he played 14 holes in 11 under 4’s, and seven holes for 22. Walker Cup. Berwick. Law writing, in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic lteviejv says, in part, about the Walker Cup won recently by the British team: “Tins, great victory has marked the recovery of our amateur golf after the lean years. The winter of our discontent is past, and over, and whatever may happen in 1940 (and bo sure we shall have a hard row to hoo in any event), we can henceforth meet our enemies on an equality. Our championship, to be sure, has gone over the Atlantic, and we do not grudge it, for Charles Yates worthily earned it by playing great golf at Troon, but the greater prize is ,ours.” Tho weather, the course, and the crowds, Mr Law discusses, “The weather at St. Andrew’s was not worthy of the event, and, what with a strong growth of grass, the rain, and tho absence of a testing wind on the second day, the old course did not offer its hardest problems, but it is immeasurably the greatest course in the world, and no Walker Cup match should ever be played elsewhere in Great Britain,” he says. “The course was in perfect condition and tho arrangements for , controlling the huge crowd of spectators ‘admirable. Only once did they get out of control, and then at the news of Kyle’s victory out in the country, when they swarmed over the 18th fairway, behind Ewing and Billows. What a scene, what shouting and singing; and with what cause!” Rules of Golf. Rule 15 of the Rules of Golf states: —Moving or bending fixed or growing objects. Before striking at a ball in play a player should not improve the position of his ball by moving, bending, or breaking anything fixed or growing; except (1) so far as is necessary to enable him fairly to take his stance in addressing tile ball, or (2) in making his backward or forward swing. The club may be only grounded-lightly, and not pressed on the ground. Penalty in match play.—Loss of

hole; penalty in stroke play, " two strokes. PALMERSTON NORTH CLUB'! ‘ The match committee of the Palmerston North Golf Club lias decided that the competition finals will he. played as under:—B grade championship.—K. Dawkins v. G. Kenning, September 17. C grade championship.—Johnston v. Scorgie, September 17. Ek6tedt Medallion. Bailey v. Denby, September 18. Pewter Mugs—Fourball. Fletcher and Essex v. Harkness and Tucker, September 18. Thompson Cup.-—Harkness v. C. R. Ward, afternoon of September 25. Club championship—36 holes.—Harkness v. Ramsay, October 2.