GOLF

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12507, 24 July 1926, Page 17

GOLF

Play in the Hughes memorial competition has commenced at Hutt, and the first round is to b© completed this week-end. It lias been decided to givo the trophy for match play on handicaps. Taylor, of Waiwetu, is hitting a tremendous ball nowadays. The other day at the 440 yard Ist hole he was well past the pin with his second, and had to play back. R. Hayward, a 14 handicap man at Waiwetu, is showing up well. Ho did an exceptionally good round recently, and is quite likely to upset things in 1 the club competitions. j The brothers Black are sure to he 1 finishers in the Wilford Cup competi-1 1 tion which is now being played at Hutt. I !So far they have not been beaten, though last week Pearson Wagg and J. Blaxall ran them close. Waiwetu did not field their strongest team against Hutt last Saturday, but they won comfortably. Gilbertson and C. B. Thomas were not available, and C. Gair, a long handicap man, was ;n- ---! eluded. Kennedy, Adamson, Pulley, Taylor, and Cooke were the last men in the winning team. The Hutt team was outplayed, and found the greens very variable. To-day will see Waiwetu Club playing Canadian mixed foursomes for a trophy given by Mr C. Dentice. Tomorrow there will beheld a match in aid of the funds for the Jubilee Institute for the Blind in Auckland. A' stroke .competition played on the Manor Park links, during last weekend was won by E. M. Pankhurst, 103-26-77. In these clays, when the majority, of golf clubs in Now Zealand arc facing' heavy expenditure in-'6rder to keep their courses up-to-date and in good order, envious eyes will he cast.on the Oaniaru Golf Club, which, as the result of its share o£ a big art union conducted locally, lias been' able to spend £OOOO on the purchase and lny'g on* of a freehold pronertv. «•• • •

Miss Dorothy Chrystall, who figured prominently in the Otago Ladies’ championship, played on tlie Bnlmacewnn links, has reduced her handicap from three to tho two mark. Incidentally she is the first member of the Christ? church Ladies’ Club to reach, tbis handicap, and if sbo continues to play as steadily as she has done throughout the last month or two she should figure prominently in the next championship in which she elects to take her place.' • * • . * There was some amusing description passing over the cables tlie night that Bobby Jones beat Cyril Tolley in the Walker Cup match. The “New York Times,” chronicling the American’s win for the fifth time, has just readied New Zealand, and puts it this way: “Bobby Jones vindicated before the most critical golf audience, fii tlie world all that had been' said of biro before he .landed. His previous performances had not satisfied him. and he took the opportunity when confronted by the British champion, Cyril Tolley, of showing the public hojv he could shoot. As he put it, ‘I may

never come back to play, and I’m going to shoot all I’ve got.’ He went forth to slm* and spare not, and thoroughly fulfn.cd his mission. He shot Tolley in the wing at the first hole, be raked him with par figures fore and aft, and let loose a covey-of birdies. Tolley hadn’t a shot in his locker. He picked up four times in tlie morning. Bobby went to lunch 9 up. Tolley, riddled with Bobby’s bullets, changed a brown suit for a grey in the afternoon. It was a suitable shade for his aspect of the match. Bobby went on remorselessly shooting par, while Tolley fired nothing but blank cartridges. Without giving him the pale shadow ofgo chance, Bobby buried him in the sandhills at” the further-' most point of tlie course, 12 holes deep with a mound 11 holes high to play.” Here is a portrait of Jones’s afternoon round: 4444444-28.