GOLF.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4426, 5 August 1901, Page 6

GOLF.

The first found of the championship of the Wellington Golf Club was played at Miramar on Saturday. The weather was against good golf, a heavy wind and showers of rain militating against the players, especially those who got last awav. The second round will be played on Saturday next, after which the best eight players in the aggregate will play a final round to ■ decide the championship. The best cards handed in for the first round were as follow:

Mr A. Duncan 90 Mr G. Todd ... 92 Mr D. Pryde ... 93 Mr F. S. Hodson 95 Mr K. Duncan 99 Mr E. Jackson 102 Mr W. B. Lees 102 Mr A. J. Abbott 103 Mr F. G. Dalziell 104 Mr C. Gore 105 Professor Brown 106 Mr D. Ritchie ... ... ... 106 Mr M. Ross 108 Mr E. S. Pearce 109 Mr A. Buchanan 11l Mr P. C. Freeth 112 Mr J. H. N. A. Burns 120 Mr C. Richardson 120

The following is the draw and the order of play for the second round to be played on Saturday next:—P. C. Freeth will play D. Eitchie, A. J. Abbott will play F. S. Hodson, F. G. Dafziel- will play A. Buchanan, Malcolm Boss will nlav J.-At. Byrnes, C. Eichardson will play E. S. Pearce, K. Duncan will play W. B. Lees, E. Jackson will play Professor Brown, A. Duncan will play 6. Todd, C. Gore will play D. Pryde. A special general meeting of the Wellington Golf Club will be held in the Academy of Arts Building on Monday evening, 19th inst. to consider importune amendments of the rules. The club has been so successful during recent yexvs and has grown to such an extent that some improvement in the rules undir which it originally started has become necessary.