GOLF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 10

GOLF.

(PROPOSED VISIT OF VARDON

The most interesting item of golfing gossip during the past week is the report, culled • from an English paper, that Harry Vardon is likely to visit Australia shortly and play some exhibition matches. Vardon's health has been very indifferent during the past few years, and his medical advisers think that the trip would do him a world of good. It would not pay a golfer of Vardon's. calibre to visit Australia purely as a money-making concern, as ho is always in « groat demand in the Old Country; but I feel sure that every Australian golfer will willingly contribute something to witness a match between Vardon and Soutar or Clark, or let Vardon play the best, ball of Soutar and Clark, and, if such matches bo arranged, Vardon's expenses of his trip woulu easily be, raised. I feel certain that Soutar would put up an excellent game against Vardon, but it would bo too much to expect him. to beat him— any rate, after Vardon had become somewhat acclimatised and accustomed to our links. Vardon has won the open championship in England on several occasions, and he is one of the finest golfers the world has ever seen, and to all those who have never had the pleasure of witnessing his marvellous play all I can say is that they have an exquisito treat in store and what will impress and surprise them most of all will not bo the fact that he never gets into difficulties but the wonderfully easy manner in which he extricates: himself from all such difficulties. He lias one of the easiest and most elegant styles that modern golf can show us. A 3uiet ease is the characteristic of Vardon's riving swing. He never seems to force the stroke at all, and yet one. is fairly astonished at the distance that the 1 ball is driven by these seemingly easy means. Vardon's club is ;• shorter and,:lighter than the .average. The motions of the golfing swing make up an. effect of great • beauty .as he displays them. It is a noteworthy fact that ho takes his club up vertically, but brings it down with a horizontal sweep,', thereby violating the canon laid- down in most of the books on ffolf, that, as the up-swing is, so will the down-swing be.—" All Square-" in Syd- , ncv. Referee. . ~ ■- : : - v..