GOLF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15912, 8 May 1915, Page 4

GOLF.

NOTES AN!) COMMENTS. The Miramar Golf Club's new pavilion, a contract lor the erection of which lias been let at about £2600, will have a handsome exterior, will bo of wood, two storeys high, ana will be ready for occupation in five months time. On the ground floor will bo a . ladies lounge. a gentleman's smoking-room, and various dressing-rooms. . A spacious diningroom, having an open timber roof and large pressed brick fireplaces, a kitchen, committeerooms, and offices, will be located on the first floor, and the Caretaker will have quarters immediately under 'the roof. A verandah and balcony "will run. round three sides of the pavilion and enable the members and their friends to obtain a fias view tof Lyall Bay and the links.. The pavilion will have a concrete foundation. _ - , At .the annual meeting of the Victorian Gclf Association, held some little time ago, it was unanimously decided that the Victorian championships, pennant matches, challenge foursome shield competition, and open meetings of associated and registered clubs bo abandoned until the war is over, permission being given to olubs to play their usual-club-events if they so desired. Golf, says a Melbourne exchange, is different from other sports, inasmuch as the abandoning of opening championships and meetings does not bring any hardship in the way .->f unemployment, and what the association nad in its mind when it carried the resolution, was that golfers might follow their pastime quietly, but they were against advertising the game by way of open meetings,' etc. A golfer lately returned from England slated that when he left the Old Country a few weeks back few golfers were to be seen playing the game at all, while to meet one carrying his clubs in the streets was, a rarity. It cannot be said that the association is discouraging golfers to subscribe to the. war funds, as their "war medal" competitions were inaugurated fori that very ■■ purpose. These are the competitions that ought to be fostered and played for all they are worth. . According to the American notes in a late issue of .Golf Illustrated this is going to be a boom year for golf in America, where millions of dollars are being expended in. laying out links and clubhouse buildings. Last year there were from 60,000 to 80,000 new aspirants. at the game, and it isJ estimated that this year will find some .hundred thousand new golfers. The laying out of eight new. courses has been commenced withing the vicinity ..of New York, and this will represent . an initial outlay before - ready for play of 5 something , like three and a-hall million dollars. In fact, one course alone— the Lido, at Long Beach. Long Island— the promoters carry out their plans, will cost close on that amount. Included in fneir •plan iB to be a casino, hotel, and bathing pavilion after the style of the famous Lido near Venice. Some well-known .financiers are backing the proposition, including Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert Goelet, J. P. Morgan. and Otto H. . Kahn. The course is being made by,; pumping in : t sand . from a near-by channel. Si* feet of sand hae already been deposited to cover. the ;■ sunken parts, which are to be raised from 9ft to 15ft before the desired height is reached. Mounds from 10ft to-80ft high are to be made for undulations on' some of'the fairways. The whole is to be covered 2ft deen with top ail and fertilisers. • They "do things", in ; America; and when this course is finished ■it will be well, worth a golfer's visit to; the country -to see it In all there are about 50 new courses under construction, and : there is • talk w 0 more to follow. Public links appear to be a great institution in America;' and are largely patronised, Philadelphia being the latest city to lay out a. course, which is to-be 6400 yds •long, and is. intended to bo the , finest public •golf course in the world. . ; • ■/ ' ; .;> ' ' 'J— - i • ■ . .. \ '- ■ AUCKLAND CLUB.'' - . - Tie.fourth round of the match hand!cap will be played at Midcllpmore to-day. ■V AUCKLAND LADIES' CLUB. ' - ;■ The - second round of the Hope Lewis Rose Bowl. match, ; arranged to bo played at Middlemore yesterday, was 5! postponed ;■ on account of the weather. Players must • finish the second-round; games 'on 4 or - before • next Friday. • ..." ;!•' The;. monthly' Red. CrossVmatch/will be played ■on •' Tuesday. The V conditions '<*. are, post \ entries, players-'.to;- choose ■ their own partners. - The entrance fees; will go ,to the Bed Cross fund. ' » : J t TE AROHA CLUB. The Te Aroha golf , season was opened on Saturday,, when there were 70 golfers present. The winners of the 1 mixed; foursomes trophy .were Mrs. Bush and Captain R. S. . Henna, with a net score of 56}. The next best cards were Miss -Fitzgerald and ; Milsom,;67, v. Miss Hubbard and P. Bliss,' 68 ; Mrs.* Simp.' son and Foster. 66, v.; Mrs. Bliss and Scott, 71; Mrs. Sevill and'.Currie, s 66};- v. - Miss Richie and Wayroouth, 571;' Mrs. Clarke and Bimpscn, 70, v. Miss Forrest and Klenginder, 6?; . Miss Fawcett • and Budd, 581, v. Miss Burton and Byrne, 57; Mrs. McGbshan and Home, 60.

• "CAMBRIDGE CLUB. ' : [BT, TELEOHAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] :.; ■v...'-> .; i. "•-<-. . Cambridge, Friday. ' -. The lady members of the Cambridge Golf ; .Club'held a tourney on Wednesday, a bogey j match being played in the morning, und ; foursomes in the afternoon. The I ;bogey was .' won by Miss K. -Hally,'4 up, Mrs. Fraser, i 1 down, being next. iy:Miss;- F. Cos'>' and j Miss K. Hally won tho ; foursomes 1 with? a 1 net score of 81, Mrß.'^Bleddon' : and Mrs. , i Fraser being, runners-up .with 85. :•; Miss 'i Wells, captain, had charge .;:of > the 'day's i arrangements. ' , ' .;