DOMINION GOLF COUNCIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18890, 12 December 1924, Page 8

DOMINION GOLF COUNCIL.

CHAMPIONSHIP CONDITIONS.

LEAGUE PLAYERS' STATUS.

The conditions of the amateur championship competition were the subject of consideration at the meeting of tho council of the New Zealand Golf Association in Wellington this -week. Tho chairman, Mr. R. C. Kirk, presided.

A letter was received from-the Manawatu Club, supported by three other clubs, conveying a resolution to the effect that it was advisable to revert to 18-holes matches in the amateur championship except in tho final. This matter had already been discussed at tho November meeting. The council decided that after careful consideration it considered tho present method, 36-hole matches throughout, was tho fairest, and it was aveise to altering the method until a mandate was received from an annual meeting of delegates. The Otago Rugby Football League wrote inquiring whether member 3of Rugby League football clubs and League officials were eligible to join golf clubs and play in competitions under the association's jurisdiction in New Zealand. It was resolved by the council that members of Rugby League football clubs and League officials were not, by reason of that fact alone, ineligible to join golf clubs in New Zealand as amateur golfers. With regard to the engagement of professionals from Home, it was resolved to send a brief week-end cable to Mr. Roberts or Mr. Abbott asking them what progress they had made in the matter. Mr. W. H. MacDougall, of Christchurch, advised that he had ordered from England a silver cup which he had given as a challenge.trophy in connection with the professionals' championship.