GOLF

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4396, 29 June 1901, Page 7 (Supplement)

GOLF

(By ‘'All Square.”) A new teeing-ground has been invented at home, which, it is said, seems destined to come into favour on inland courses, where the turf gets worn 1 quickly. The tee is made of ashes, large cinders being used at the bottom, and small ashes at the top. The whole is firmly rolled, and is then ready for use. Such a tee has been in use at Headingiy, near Leeds, during the past winter, and has proved most serviceable. It is always dry, affords a firm foothold, and does not require any treatment. So well has it answered its purpose that it is intended to construct a small tee of this kind for every hole for winter use, the ashes being placed in a framework of wood. Fanie, the inventor of the tee at Headingiy, has also designed a new roller for put-, ting-greens that has been coming- into favour quickly. It is of light construction, from 12in. to 14in. in diameter, and about a yard wide, divided into three pieces. A Leeds firm made the roller from Fanie’s pattern, and has since sold a largo number of this particular make. The “Chicago Post” is responsible for the following story, which as an example of hero-worship is not without interest: —“When Harry Vardon left fee Canton, England, he gave Tom Bandelow several of his much-prized clubs. Yesterday a wealthy man from Wisconsin used his arts of persuasion on the owner of the sticks that had been used in at least two championships, and finally induced Bandelow to part with one, a deck. Turning as he reached the door, the new owner of the cleek remarked, T see another club in that bag that I must have. What will you take for it?' Thinking that he would close the incident immediately, for he did not want to sell the club, Bandelow replied, ‘Oh, 150dol. would be a fair price.’ Til give you that much for it,’ was the Wisconsin man’s quick reply. But the club remains with Bandelow.”, In “Golf Illustrated,” Mr A. C. M: Groom© has a good article on “Team Matches.” After discussing the different ways of scoring, he goes on to show how all games are selfish—the footballer, the cricketer, etc. He then goes on to point out the great stumbling block in the way of .team matches, and what has been found, here as elsewhere, as its greatest difficulty. “The man who really shows unselfishness in his game is the golfer who, though he lives within a stone’s-throw of a good course, gets up earlier than his wont, travels—at his own proper charges—to play a man whom he does not know and may find unsympathetic, over a possibly worse than his own, where inferiority in local knowledge will handicap him to the extent of at least two shots, and all for the honour of his club.”