GOLFER'S APPOINTMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 15

GOLFER'S APPOINTMENT.

VALUE OF SLOAN MORPETH. ' —— Victorian golfers and enthusiasts of tl.e royal and ancient game will receive with considerable interest the announcement, ; , that Mr. Sloan Morpeth, the former New Zealand open champion and secretary of an Auckland club, who.won the Victorian amateur championship a few months ago. lias been appointed resident secretary of the Commonwealth Golf Club, Oakleigh, says a Melbourne paper. "Mr. Morpeth's appointment will be of great value to his club, where his previous managing experience will assist largely in its present period of expansion,.and his accession to the ranks of Victorian golfers will strengthen the game in this State. The Commonwealth Club, which has steadily pursued a wholesome and progressive policy during the last few years, has done much for the game in Victoria, producing some of the State's best exponents of the game. It is to be congratulated on its latest appointment, which comes at an important stage in its history on the eve of taking over its new and handsome clubhouse, whose appointments provide the last word in up-to-date accommodation. It will be recalled that Mr. * Morpeth won the Victorian title on the Commonwealth links, and on being presented with the trophy ho loft it in the safe keeping of the club, intimating that he hoped to return to Victoria to defend it.