GOLF.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4319, 30 March 1901, Page 6 (Supplement)

GOLF.

Bi' ‘'ALL SQUARE." Harry *Vardon has decided to settle in America? This will be a loss to golf at home, and I am not sure that it will be a good thing for Vardon. He is mak. I ing lots of money just now, but he will i not have talent enough against him l to i keep him up to his best form. If he losses that, and someone gets better than him, the Americans will not run after Mm so much. Mr W. V. Hoare, champion long driver of the United States, won a longdriving contest with the enormous drive of yards. He drives with a cockct club, which he says he can get the longest distance with. He drives with his left foot advanced, as do all the longest drivers, suoh as Mr Edward Blackwell, Holland, Braid, Toogcod, etc. He says that if a ball is hit, instead of swept from the tee with the swing, the force has been expended too early in the stroke, and the club does not follow on properly. This causes loss of distance. He says the chief advantages of a good style are —first, the knowledge that you are play, ing correctly in good form, which imparts confidence; second, the golfers who play in good form do not go off their game so frequently as those who have peculiar styles, nor do they tire so easily. Mr T. Stuart Smith has for the second time won the amateur championship of India. He won in 1898. Last year Mr Gerald Maitland Heriot won. He, however, died during tne year. Mr Macbeth, of the Lythara and St. Anne’s OJuWt led the field for the qualifying round. In the tournament, however, he was put out by Mr Smith. The Bombay golfers complain that the Calcutta Club bold the meeting every year, instead of holding it at Calcutta and Bombay alternately, at which latter place they have players who can hold their own with the first nine of Calcutta.