Golf at Rotorua

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7250, 1 September 1933, Page 8

Golf at Rotorua

GOOD QUALIFYING BOUNDS BY 0. H. WILLIAMS. Tho Botorua open amateur championship tournament opened on Tuesday and the veteran, H. B. Lusk (Auckland) headed the list for the qualifying rounds with an aggregate of 147, his second round being a 68. 0. H. Williams, who is one of the stylists at Hokowhitu, was equal seventh with a total of 150 —two rounds of 78. The scoring was good for of tho 32 who qualified, only one total exceeded 166. Those who qualified for the Thermal Cup include K. Glendinning (Manawatu) 174, N. Amon (Bulls) 174, and J. S. Triclcer (Bulls) 178. In the first round yesterday morning 0. H. Williams beat the Maungakiekie player, L. H. Norton. The latter was playing much better than his handicap, but Williams carried too many guns for him. PALMERSTON NORTH CLUB. WEEK-END DRAW. The September stroke competition and third qualifying round for the Roseo and Thompson Cups and the Ekstcdt Medallion will be played this week-end and the draw is as under: — Guy plays Sinclair, McPhee plays Marquis, Callis plays C. N. Smith, Reid plays Watt, McMillan plays Grant, Drumm plays Mullaney, Moody plays Macpherson, J. B. Durham plays Walsh, Lindsay plays Mouat, Arlidge plays Kerr, Brien plays O’Neill, Moran plays Clausen, McKay plays Tremaine, A. S. Bayliss plays Boon, Skoglund plays Anderson, Pizzcy plays Francis, Hubbard plays Selwyn, R. Ramsay plays Looney, Bryan plays Bott, Chapman plays Turner, Bennett plays Rabone, A. H. Bayliss plays Evans, French plays Gibbs, Hart plays Voss, Marsack plays Cumberworth, Dickel plays Coupe, Tottman plays E. Simpson, Vannini plays Ciochetto, Cook plays McMurray, Peterson plays Thomson, T. Simpson plays Berryman, Cameron plays J'. Durham, Fraser plays Smillic, Broughton plays Wills. MANAWATU CLUB. WEEK-END FIXTURES. The following Manawatu players are selected to play against the team from the Dannevirke Club which will visit Hokowhitu during the week-end. Play will commence at 9.15 a.m.: A. E. Ekstcdt, J. M. Taylor, C. G. Moore, J. V. Stevens, J. E. Lewis, W. L. Fitzhcrbert, N. H. Sinclair, N. H. Rawson, C. Louisson, J. J. Stevenson, A. Dickens, F. J. Nathan, R. B. Lucas, Capt. McCaskill, N. H. Blaekmorc, A. M. Ongley, A. J. Goodwin, L. A. Ferguson, W. H. Hall, H. C. Morgan, 11. R. Whitehead, F. L. C. Scrivener, D. West, C. A. Small. Emergencies: T. Stubbs, A. CT. Anderson, L. Potter, W. H. Knight, E. J. Trehey, N. Armitage, D. McKenzie, A. Hansel. Simultaneously with the ManawatuDannevirke match at Hokow'hitu. a team of Manawatu players will visit Te Matai course for a match with the Palmerston North Club. The following are nominated for Manawatu: L. Seifert, W. E. Winks, J. F. Field F. A. Cousins, L. F. Spcechley, C. J. Hay, J, P. Stubbs, A. Strange, A. Ashby, H. C .Hill, B. J. O’Shea, G. P. Maulc. Emergencies: J. K. McManus, W. J. Knights, W. J. Roach, H. Swindell, W. A. Bryden, V. Goldfinch. The Palmerston North team will comprise: A. E. Guy, R. W. Cumbcrworth, R, Ramsay, L. G. Sinclair, B. Marsack, R. McMurray', R. M. Brien, T. B. ArHdge, W. D. Reid, W. D. Olney, H. K. McKay, L. G. Callis. Emergency: C. N. Smith.

VICTORIAN CENTENARY. SUBSTANTIAL PRIZE BEINGOFFERED. Tlio Victorian Golf Associaion is offering a prize of £2OOO for a championship meeting at the Metropolitan Golf Club, Oakleigh, Victoria, as a feature of the Victorian and Melbourne centenary celebrations. In addition, there will be a valuable gold cup for the Victorian amateur open event. Mr. H. G. Mcßoberts, president of the Victorian Golf Association, says that the £2OOO prize is the biggest golf prize in the British Empire. The Daily Mail prize, England's is £ISOO. He said there should ultimately be £SOOO. ottered in prize-money in Victoria alone. Already another club proposes to offer a Centenary Gold Cup and a substantial prize, and still a third club is negotmting for a competition for which £-oU prize-money will be available. Negotiations are at present being finalised to ensure that at least one of the world's leading golfers will be present in Australia during the centenary and leading professionals from other countries coming to Melbourne for the centenary will find a most remunerative “gate" throughout Australia, where there are 120,000 golfers for private exhibitions. Around Melbourne there are at least five picturesque golf courses which are definitely of championship standard and have been described by overseas visitors as the equal of anything to be found in Britain or America. Mr. W alter Hagen, for instance, in speaking of the Metropolitan links, Melbourne, said, “I am greatly surprised. I did not expect to find anything outside Britain or America as beautiful and as well turfed or with as much golfing point as the Metropolitan proved to be,” and in regard to golf generally in the State of Victoria, he remarked that he was “surprised at the quality of the holes the type of golf country, and the golf architecture."