GOLF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 5

GOLF

•By Divot. , FIXTURES FOR SATURDAY Otago,—First qualifying round club championship. Entries close to-day. Bt., Clair.—Stroke Handicap. f,. • * OTAGO CLUB* The Canadian foursomes played at Balmacewen last week was a pleasant change from the rather monotonous succession of single and four-ball games which dominate on the programmes of local clubs. It is generally conceded that there are not enough foursome competitions played, but very little effort is made by match committees to rectify this. Other local clubs would do well to follow Otago in having one or two foursome competitions on their programmes. ;The cards returned on Saturday were generally of a high standard, and showed consistent combination on the part of the competitors. R. F. Barr and R. W. Cristensen showed good team work as well as sound golf to ■ beat bogey by 6 holes f and thoroughly deserved their success. They were in receipt of 11 strbkes. but they played in a manner worthy oi a lower mark. J. M'Dougall and T. B. Ferguson, who received only tv/o strokes, Elayed very ■ fine golf, being _ only one • ole behind the winners. Their score of 5 up was equalled by A. Gill ■ and .W. S. Stewart, who had a handicap of 11 strokes. The Balmacewen course will be in good order for the club championships, which will be commenced with the first qualify - , ing round on Saturday. The greens have, shown a decided improvement, the warm and sunny weather having a beneficial effect. Members, intending to.compete in the club championship who have not yet entered are reminded that the entry list , closes to-night. ST. CLAIR CLUB Everything was favourable for good scoring on Saturday at Corstorphine, Where a four-ball Bogey Handicap was played. The result was a tie between W. Chapman and J. Taylor, and S, G. Mor- - risen and L. T. M'Cormack, each pair being 6 up. Next Saturday a gtioke. Handicap will be played. This 48 the second of a series of three matches for which special prizes are being awarded, AMERICAN AMATEUR CHAMPION “ f eorge Dunlap, the young New York golfer, who came, very near to winning the British title at Hoylake this summer, 1 is the new American champion. In the final at Cincinnati he defeated Max Marston by the decisive margin of 6 and 5, writes George Greenwood in an exchange. “ Marston, who was champion 10 years , ago, and played in three Walker Cup matches—l922-3-4-r-has long been one, of the leading figures in golf in the Eastern States, though of late He has been some- , what overshadowed by the ever-growing army of young players. . _ “By his signal triumph' Dunlap thus supports the view I expressed after seeing him play for the first time-; —that he was a most dangerous competitor for the British title, a young man, who, because of the absence of any trace of fear, might easily crash , his way through the championship. ... , “He got as far as the semi-final, where the Hon. Michael Scott, the world’s most impassive golfer, put a stop to his cateei. - “«I shall return/ said Dunlap, with a most engaging smile, and so'he will, probably as the' leader, of the United States Walker Cup team, which is due to play Great Britain in this country next year. “The new champion, who is 24 years of age, fair-haired, and of medium height, is a graduate of Princeton University, where he won the intercollegiate title of America* On leaving the. university he was employed in" the humb est of capacities by a Wall street firm of brokers. •Starting as a Stock Exchange runner and then as a board boy. he has beep promoted to, the statistical department, a position of some importance. “As a golfer Dunlap, is somewhat of an individualist. He does not believe irr, or ■ at-any rate he does not practise, .the glow. backswing so characteristic of American golfers.

“ By comparison with the speed of the swing of Bobby Jones, or of Edward Dudley that of Dunlap is like an express train, though it must not be. inferred that as a consequence his swing lacks rhythm. It is most attractive,. full of dash and power. , ,For bis size: he is an unusually ; long hitter,'his average drive under normal conditions being about 230 yards. ■■■ • ’ , ‘‘Standing with the right foot behind the left, he is inclined to ‘ fade ’ rather than pull the shot, which is the American practice. His short game is excellent, the art of rolling three shots into two being most pronounced. With the left elbow stuck gut much after the fashion of Leo Diegel, the new champion is a courageous putter, the ball being hit straight at the back of the hole. Obviously, the ‘dying ball ’ method of Bobby Jones .is not favoured by Dunlap, who gets a kick into everything. “ He hits the ball, dashes after it with short, quick steps, and hits it again, no time being wasted dyer fussy and unnecessary preliminaries. Like most of the' leading American amateurs, Dunlap has played a great deal with the famous proleseional players. ‘lt is no use staying at home twiddling your thumbs and thinking you can beat the world/ says Dunlap. ‘The thing is to go out and,try to do it The best way of showing you that you can’t is to play the‘professional; they’ll soon knock the conceit out of you. “Dunlap has learned in a hard school. ■ He wqs a member of the last Walker Cup, team which inflicted so crushing a defeat on the British players. With Ommet as partner, Dunlap, helped to defeat J. A. Stout and Burke by 7: and 0, while in the singles the new champion beat Eric M'Euvie, the Scottish, youth, by the overwhelming margin of 10 and 9.” MISS KAY’S NEW RECORD It would seem that there are practically no heights in the gofing world to which Miss Kay cannot attain.. Her record-breaking'round at Corstorphine on Tuesday would at least point that way. ns her figures for the last 14 holes are nothing more or less than fantastic. After a bad start, the first four holes having cost her 20 strokes, she settled down to play flawless golf and finished the outward journey in 38. It was in the second half, however, that Miss Kay excelled herself.. She clipped a stroke off the standard score for each of the tenth and eleventh holes. Promontory she Mid in par 5. Another stroke was gained at Old Nick. The fourteenth was accomplished in the correct figure, and Miss Kay proceeded to complete a great round in a blaze of glory with four .perfect threes, three of them being birdies. Thirty-one strokes were taken for the last nine holes, or six under scratch for the second half. Miss Kay had no fewer than nine threes in the 18 holes. There were also five fours, two fives, and two sixes. For the information of. those who are unfamiliar with the Corstorphine links. Miss Kay’s card showing the distances and the standard scratch score is set out below:— Out: — '

So long as Miss Kay can play golf of: a standard even only remotely . approaching the above score when she is in Britain next vear. there is little doubt but that she will distinguish herself and bring credit to the game in New Zealand.

Hole. Yards. Bogey. Miss Kay. 1 333 4 5 2 132 3 3 3 450 5 6 . 4 407 4 6 :■ 5 319 4 4 . 6 240 4 3 7 286 4 4 8 352 4 4 ■ 9 . 148 3 3 2667' 35 , , 38 In:— v .10 416 5 4 11 298 4 3 12 425 ' 5 5 13 316 4 3 14 324 4 4 IS 198 4 3 16 388 4 3 17 93 3 3 18 315 4 3 In: 2793 37 31 Out: ■ 2667 . 35 :38 Total: 5460 72 69