Golf

NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 14

Golf

(By "Sammy")

The Championship Card In a few weeks all golfers will be interested about scores and play at Christchurch. The score card, published below will enable .players and others interested to study the length and bogey of theVcourse. Par ■ can be worked out by allowing 200 yards for first and second shots and two putts. To the players who like to dream about the scores they are going to do *t the. op en; this card may enable them to work ' it out correctly. ' '-„.', . i • .-♦ "i .'.-.., '.. ' : '. ~" - „ . ■ . ■.•■;...■- . Hole. Name . • . • , Yds. Bogey Hole. .. Name - ; Yds.. Bogey ; l Farthest South "'■. . . , 180 ,-4 10 „ Mairehau '„ ; . ".. ;.. ... ' 400 5 2 The Pagoda. .. 635 5 11 Nor' West :.. 325 4 3 TeOranga ..,..../ 380 " "4' 12 'Terra. Nova.; 410 5 ■4. The Narrows ..... 315 4 1,3 /The .Crossways : . . ..., 130 3 • 5 Wilson's' ..:...^..."380 " 4 14 The ' Upshot ..>....-. 408 5 6 Brigg's.-.. L .-.-. '...:. '350 ,4- 15 < lO'Rorke's .......... 380 4 7- Muggeridge's ......170 3 16 The Pines ...... 325 4 8 Land's End ...;... 470 5- 17 Old ; Nick .....125 3 .9 Furthest North ... 325 5 18. H0me ........... ./..■■ ,^5 5 < •' : Totals 0ut '. . .... . -3105 38 ' ' Totals .In . . . ... ;....;r«89.8 38 Total 18 holes, ,6003 yards. ... . , ■'■•■ ; ; ' ■'. " Bogey, 38 plus 38, 76.- • '.;;,/

■. A. Shaw ■recently -paid a visit to Palmerston North and the local paper was kind enough 'to. say Andy was' opan champion of N.Z. They w ere > kidding to you, Andy, but let's. hope it will he true soon!, In a match the pros. Shaw (75) and. Galloway (76) defeated Ekstedt (76) and Lewis (79) by 3 and 2; The game was followed by a'number of golfers and -some great strokes were seen. • . .' .

' Start practicing . putting, you have only got a month to get perfect.

Dr. Williams playing m the first round of the Balgownie Cup over the Belmont Links m atrocious weather played brilliant golf and handed m the winning card of .3 ;up from scratch. His^ figures were 77 (37-40). The only blemish m the card was two; sixes." at the last two holes. The doctor is going to be a tough proposition at Shirley.

Harry Blair, of Shirley, had to buy a case of the best, a bottle-was not enough, and he will have to buy more when the boys arrive. He holed the first hole (180 yds) m one the. other week — the first one he has had the neck to do. What a beauty that 'would be to start the open with. Ones are frequent at Shirley; C. A. Quane holed "Old :Nick" and became the fifth player to join the "hole m ■ one" club at Shirley this season.

A professional recently 'had an elderly gentleman as. pupil who was armed with a driver with a very stiff shaft. The professor reasoned -.vith him that with his, short swing a whippe.r shaft would enable him to get a longer, ball and experience, proved the professor right. A week afterwards his elderly pupil brought his putter into the shop with the request for a whipper shaft to be put m, "For,", he said, "I never get up with this one."

?.The Tuson Cup was played at Shirley m awful weather when the Wellington team, wet, cold and half seasick were defeated by the local plx'yefs^ Christchurch won all the four balls and their leading five players won their games m the singles. The veterans of the teams, also had a #b m four balls which Christchurch won, but they abandoned the singles. Poker at the 19th Was better than playing m the cold, bleak wind. •

F, M. Dean, lately professional In N,ew Zealand, is now, on the "bounding: main" on the way to England. Perhaps when he arrives there he will write a book on his travels and experiences m New Zealand as he said he would. He is. supposed to come back here for next year. What trusts ful people his employers are!

Manawatu Club sent a team to Napier to contest a match; only eight aside were played; as one car got bogged m the Manawatu Gorge and the players had to return. Napier won by 8 to 3 and on paper they would have won the other matches as the Palmerston North second car full did not seem much good, m getting out of hazards. •

E. S. Douglas, late open champion of N.Z., is beginning, to. hold his own at Home. In the Northern pro. eharripionship lie .finislied third to -Abe Mitchell, four strokes behind. He provided the sensation of that meeting at St: Anne's by starting out m the last round with 244434443— 32; and' spoiled a winning Icard by finishing GG4, five over bogey. He was 'well up m the "Daily Mail" competition and m both tournaments he had famous players behind him. In the qualifying stages of the open, with 73.-78 he tied for fourteenth place m the field of 200. G. W. Greenwood, one of the 'greatest golf scribes m England, selected Douglas among the ten : players he picked to win the open. I , hope this will meet the eye of two "gentlemen" who said uncomplimentary things about the ex-champiori to a professional lately m NiZ. Douglas could always deliver the 'gbods; ..was a great little golfer, but , was "hot understood." ' ' ' . Jim Russell -has lately 1 been showingglimpses of returning to form. See- i ing so many straight lefts in' the Town Hall ;has helped' him /along I wonderfully and he is now hitting the ball quite passionately.! ' . ' . ; ■#'■.■ * ' ; -...r-. ',•#'•-.- \ There is every indication of ,a large , turnout of professionals : at 'Shirley. A newcomer is Gardner, an ex-Irish International player^ who hits a long ball and may add interest to big hitting events. _ •— # *' . * ' . . Reading the-: reports of the, open at Home one learns that "Kirkwood has not altered .. his methods ,,orf r playing since his sojourn m the . States. He. has still the same pronounced . flat swing like a man mowing hay, the same terrific punch- and violent thrust of the body, and noticeable dua'cing of the knees. . .... it seems curious that a man who claims to be able to control and /stop the ball <\t will should play so many iron arid mashie shots that never found, the grcsn." Kirkwood evidently cannot lose the swing of his boyhood.' ..That , is the hardest to cure of .any golf fault— -the faults of boyhood golf.

A. Douglas has the honor to be the first player' this season , to "hole m OKe" at Nelson. He holed but at the seventeenth. He has - be.eh playing now almost seventeen years, so figures say he will have to pay seventeen boitles to cover the : sin!; '.'■■'■' ' '".,, " .

Rqtorua tournament, will I be. played oh. September 15 to :18, Entries close on. September 12;' ),';'.. ';'

Miracles are unknown m golf ar\d\ it can be taken for granted that the man.who plays grand, golf and, then constantly ' takes three \ putts won't win; The semirfinaj at Middlemore vyas proof of . this "vvhen gblf'.as"ubdye was the means of : defeat for: W. S; RjEfclph. :' ' . ' "" y ' : I ■'": V' f . ■••■'. '■"...'-"

. ! . '.'The open championship . is - golf ' de luxe," says a, writer,. Quite true— and you. have to be jh ."luxe" Avay to wihpit.

li. : J. Moss, thfe-'open ..champion, ia ati present- at Rot6fcua, l on- sick.Jaaye. Here's hoping 1 heiwillVbe-flti-to ;< piay next mpnth, down jSOuth. .'... :.

If-you v want to make sure that someone will 'remember you after you have gone,' laugh -heartily when your Opponent; just misses a putt for a birdie on the -long hole!

The Christchurch Club have taken up action m, the "replace the turf" question and have appointed a number of members to act as. stewards. Their duty will be to report to the committee all .players detected , riot replacing turf, I hope: the .fine ; will lie. b»K enough to stop them.

i The -championship of the Elth.-im ,Glub is'Avell advanced arid present conditions, point to Le'o' ! Quiri meeting h:s brother Jim m the final. It will be a good work-out .for Shirley.. .where all "Straight down the gas-pipes", will try arid improve on last yeai-'s performances. • . ...

Archie' Compston made i a-, gallant effort to tie for the open, championship at Preswick. He had dropped four strokes m playing the 7th, Bth and SHh and was left with a two to. tie. He made a wonderful attempt to attain that figure. The last .hole measures 290 yards "and he made a- mighty drive sending thQ ball rolling past the flag to finish at the back of the green. This meant that he had to hole the putt. It was an exciting position as the tan 11 crawled forward for it seemed to be m all the way, but near, the -2nd of the run it fell away and missed by a couple of inches.

Ted Ray . also tied with Compston and how Ted' must have cursed his break at the 9th hole where he. too?c 4 putts from a distance of twenty feet. He finished up this display at the Hth by missing a yard putt and then carelessly missing the return putt of one foot. His other golf coming home was perfect, but, he threw ,away two strokes at that ninth; hole. One will always think that the 'cup .should not have gone to America had these two men had not' made such mistakes at the eighth and ninth holes, m the final round. . •• •..

A.G. Sime, ex-amateur champion cf New Zealand, appears ,to be losing his punch. He was beaten m the Westport , Golf 1 Club's championship semi-final by . J. W. Fail-. Sime was leading one up at the -18111 hole, but vra.-i fnip.llj- beaten 6 up and 4 to play. Fair' won on his putting 1 . This ia Sirne's first defeat during: the fix years he' has -' been located on the Coast. ■'-;■' •;