Golf

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7460, 10 May 1934, Page 8

Golf

N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING OPENS OCTOBER 5 At the monthly meeting of the New Zealand Golf Council on Monday ad vice was received from Wanganui that the club had agreed to the councils suggestion that the commencing date New Zealand championship tournament be Friday, October 5. Other matters dealt with regarding the tournament included a suggestion from the Wanganui Golf Club, which ■uas heartily approved of and adopted, that a new event be included, the suggested name of which is “The New Zealand Plate.’' This event will be piayed, without handicaps, by the 21 competitors who are eliminated in the first day's match play of the amateur championship. The 10 who are eliminated in the morning will be drawn against each other in the afternoon and the eight of these who win their afternoon matches will then be drawn with the eight who arc eliminated in the second round of the amateur championship, which is played on the afternoon of the first day’s match piav. There will thus be 10 competitors remaining in the plate event on the second day of the match play and will play off J filmic matches on the Thursday and Fridav, the final of the plate being played on Friday afternoon over 18 holes. The Wanganui Golf Club lias indicated that its president is willing to give a trophy for this event and that its club will give a trophy for the run-ncr-up. With regard to entrance fees for the principal events, it was resolved to leave these as they were last year, namely, 15s for the open championship and 15s for the amateur championship (no entrance fee for professionals in the open). In order to make provision for the cases of amateurs who have entered for the amateur and not for the open championship, it was decided that at the conclusion of the second round of the open and qualifying rounds, the leading 70 who have entered for the open, plus all tics for seventieth place and also plus a number equal to those amateurs who arc included in the 70, but have not entered for too open, shall continue in the third and fourth rounds; that is to say, should tho leading 70 include two amateurs who have not entered for the open then the two next highest on the list will bo included. It was decided that the amateur championship foursomes shall be open to those who have entered for any ether event at the tournament, but if entering for the foursomes only the entrance fee is to bo 5s each player. It was decided that the open championship, the championship and the professional' championship foursomes shall be open only to members of a recognised professional golfers’ association. It was also decided that the stroke handicap limit for competitors in the open and amateur eh am pionships shall be G and for those E the handicap events the stroke limit if to fcc 8. Suggestions made by the New Zealand Professional Golfers’ Association after last year’s championship meeting were considered, but it was decided that their request that all professionals be allowed to complete the four rounds in the open so as to determine the qualifiers in the professional championship, could not be acceded to, but in order to make sure that 10 may be able to qualify for the match play, it was decided that in the event of there not being 1G professionals eligible to continue on the third day, then the required number is to bo made up on the scores for the first two rounds. Ihe Professional Golfers’ Association s suggestion that tho stroke 'handicap be played over 5G holes instead of IS and for* the inclusion of a bogey handicap for professionals, could not be acceded to for the reason that the programme has to be so drawn up as to allow a certain amount of time on the Thursday afternoon for preparation of the course for the finals on Friday and Saturday.