GOLF NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19391, 28 July 1926, Page 16

GOLF NOTES.

THE AUCKLAND CLUB. UNEVEN FORM DISPLAYED. NEWS FROM OVERSEAS. , The qualifying rounds of the senior championship of the Auckland Golf Club, played last Saturday, were chiefly notable for t.ho uneven play of many of the competitors. Many started badly and finished up with brilliant rounds, while the performances of some were the reverse.

The best card returned was a 74 by J. L, Clark in the second round. This is four under the course bogey and is a very creditable performance. He was out :n 38 and home in 36. This player took six strokes more in the morning round. With a first round of 75, IL D, Wright's aggregate looked very promising, but he crashed during the afternoon, when he accomplished the 18 holes in 83. His score for the first ei;;ht holes in the second round was 32—level fours—but he took a 7 at the ninth, where he inis-hit a mashie shot. Thereafter, bad golf was mingled with bad luck. In spite of this, the provincial champion was second on the list.

G. F. Colbeck did two extraordinary rounds. In the first round his score of 79 included two very bad holes. His second round of 82 included a 9 and an 8, so one can well imagine the excellence of his play at other holes. Club Champion's Form.

The present club champion, H. B. Lusk, has been playing first-class golf lately, and his 82 and 80 were not a true criterion of his form. Something went wrong at the ninth in the first round, where bo registered an 8.

Bad putting combined with a lost ball at the 15th cost Rees' a 90 in the morning, but he redeemed himself in the second round with an 81. This was more indicative of his usual form.

Ralph, who has some very brilliant shots, was disappointing. An 83 and a 91 are no indication of his form..

The greatest perversity of form was shown by Dr. F. Macky. In the first round he finished up well with a 79, and looked as if he would be among the first 16 at the finish. He took a 99 in the second round, however, and did not qualify. The first round of match play for the senior and junior championships will take place next Saturday. Writing in " Golfing," Robert H. K. Browning says the two British players whose reputations were most enhanced by the amateur championship were the semifinalists, Andrew Jamieson and the Hon. W. G. Brownlow. Jamieson, who is only 21, is the holder of the Glasgow championship, and was practically an unknown player in England. The Hon. W. G. Brownlow is 24, and is also a fine golfer.

Membership at Glendowie. The membership drive recently inaugurated by the Glendowie Club is meeting with success, and the membership of the club has been considerably increased. Those who are in a mood to criticise these links should remember they are not yet two seasons old. They were carved out of the rough, and have settled down remarkably well. The links will improve every season now. 'Many minor improvements are being carried out' to the Miramar links, Wellington, in anticipation of the New Zealand championships in October. It is expected that the course will be in perfect condition by then. The eighth hole is being altered and a temporary green is being used. Formerly, long drives were left only a short approach to the green. Now they will have to play a longer mashie shot to a green considerably strengthened by traps. Mr. John Budge, latterly of the Drumpellier Golf Club, Scotland, is now in Auckland, and there is a probability of his settling down here. Before he left his club a few of his colleagues presented him with a handsome gold cigarette caseThe Drumpellier Club is well known in Scotland, and has produced many good golfers. Mr. Budge was playing on a nine handicap. Changes in the Game. Golf has changed a great deal during the past 10 or 15 years, and one reason why the Americans have been so successful" is that they have been quicker to note the alterations which are taking place, and to provide for them," says George Gadd, in Golfing. Arthur Havers says that it is especially bad to make a long'motor journey on the morning of an important affair of the links. His experience is that the irresistible temptation to focus objects that are passed during a rapid ride upsets the vision. Anyhow, he declares that if he goes out to play golf soon after a motor trip he cannot sight the ball properly for four or five holes. Harry Yardon, whoso knowledge of golfing circumstances is probably greater than that of anybody else, also emphasises the essentiality of the clear eye. " Don't, sit in a room where a lot of people are smoking on the night before an event you want to win," he recently said. " I have suffered from it. It does just enough to deprive the eye of its shrewdness the next morning. Go out for a walk and smoke in the fresh air." George Duncan, J. H. Taylor, and others extol the virtues of light meals.

CHAMPIONS OF RACQUET. "CARMEN AND QUAKER GIRL." "Miss Helen Wills has one thing in common with Mile. Lenglen, her great rival, says Frank Poxton in the Daily News, London. Both of them were " caught young." At the age of 15 Helen Wills won the championship of the Pacific Coast; Mile. Lenglen won the championship of Picardy at the age of 14. That early achievement of fame is about the only thing that the two best players of their sex in the world have in common; in all else—in appearance, in mannerisms, and in style of play—they are diametrically opposite. When they came on the court at Cannes an American woman sitting near to me said: "They remind me of Carmen and the Quaker Girl," and the comparison was very apt. Suzanne Lenglen, dark, eager, vital: Helen Wilis, fair, placid, demure.

A TRUE SPORTSMAN. LATE MR. F. W. EDWARDS. A touching tribute to the manly qualities of the late Mr. F. W. Edwards was made by the Rev. Jasper Calder during the funeral service at the Auckland sportsman's graveside oh Sunday. "We all remember Fred," said Mr. Calder. " Most of us have not forgotten the good old days in Ponsonby when he was an enthusiastic worker at the All Saints' gymnasium under Professor Carollo, We remember him on the football field and in the West End Rowing Club. In fact, it is difficult to think of any branch of clean, wholesome sport which has not benefited by his influence, Manywere the nervous youngsters taking their first lesson in boxing who went into the ring encouraged by a few words of advice from Fred.

"As a handicapper, of course, he, could not please everybody. What handicapper could ? But we never heard a horse owner say Fred Edwards was guilty of favouritism. He was all clean. You simply could not buy