GOLF

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1515, 14 March 1901, Page 36

GOLF

BY ‘"ALL SQUARE.” The committee of the Wellington Golf Club has decided to renew and improve some of the greens at Miramar, nobib!/ the Kaikcura hole, the Haven, Wardrop s Fancy, and The Summit. The Kaikoura green may be closed altogether for a time, and temporary greens laid down in the paddocks on the south side of the Summit. In the event- of the Club losing its present home holes these temporary greens will probably be utilised to furnish permanent holes on a new course. The Wellington Club is to be congratulated c-n having obtained the services of Mr Malcolm Ross as secretary. Mr Ross is a golfer with ideas, and a q-nck, observant eye for details, and lias ab,o the faculty of throwing, his whole w eight into any enterprise with which he becomes associated. The opening match of the season at Miramar will be played on Saturday, 23rd.inst. It will take the form cf a mixed handicap foursome. The first of the Men’s Monthly CJcek .. Competitions will he held on Saturday, 30th March, and on each third l Saturday thereafter. . . , It is hoped that if any members have any appropriate framed engravings or paintings in their possession which iney can spare they will place them at the disposal of the committee to be hung at the new golf-house at Miramar. . A grelat advantage to golfists. in ohi-. mon with the generalpublic- will. be the ,;, "running, of . a ferry service to . Miramar y r on. • Saturday afternoons throughout the,y' coming winter. i Mi*. W< D.‘ Howells, MA lamenting the. .. eruption of stories of meciiaival crime, “historical romance, v with which : 7 American fictiph is just now being flooded, , regrets that while in the past the Amari-. can woman has been' -the • mainstay of good literature, in the present she spends, her leisure at golf, : and reads the “biss?/. torical romance” type of, hook. as.,a re-.-^ r lief when she gets home, and neglects the higher literature to which she was for‘merly devoted. An American editor has "consequently been holding a “symposi,’um” on why the playihg of golf should . tend to the reading of /‘criminal’’ romances of thei feudal age,, and the. Arch- ’ ,'bishop of Canterbiiry.-has frankly writr,, 1 ten, TI .have hot the slightest idea;.” It y r y might be interesting ;tq go»; r fu'r€Hef 4 .and discover 9 how a cd.itrse r, of ;readihg' oali^h^ A these laivless ’ barons and pr inces ..react s; 1 , vupdn the American Tadies?ygol^ ! ‘and lidr; 1 observance of im " Mr .Robert Forganct-hp head’ of f, : ; the r ‘ > T Avof Id-ltnowh ’ ’ firih^' J diie,dqus t * ' the end of the yeaiv ; The present

King was elected captain of the Royal and Ancient in 1863. ' It was purely a tribute to Royalty, and not to golt, as the Prince did not then play, but b organ was made “club maker to the Prince that year. Of late years, when the King had seriously taken up golf, the honour has been accorded to the firm of being actual club-makers to Royalty. Mr Forsan was shortly predeceased by his wife. Two of his sons have done well in America, where at Chicago one is president and the other vice-president of the National Bank: Other sons carry on the large club-making business. Mr Fcrgan learnt ’his club-making from Philp, the classic St. Andrews maker, whose wooden putters are now being copied in aluminium. This is from an account cf golf at Singapore : —There are two good golf links—one cn. the racecourse, where the hazards are mainly fences;, ditches and ponds ; the other —the fashionable course —in a neighbourhood of gloomy and gruesome associations: for the Sepoy Lines Golf Course, as it is called, begins at the back of the General Hospital, and proceeds via- the cholera quarters, the mortuary, the Lunatic Asyiurfi, a Chinese* burial-ground, the small-pox hospital, the gaol, the gallows, and the •'gunpowder magazine, to a glorious termination a point where the chief features in the landscape are the General Hospital, the mortuary, and the Lunatic Asylum. This is the course which the Singapore lady golfers prefer, and it adds point to the French criticism that the English take their pleasures sadly-