GOLF

Southland Times, Issue 20201, 11 June 1927, Page 18 (Supplement)

GOLF

(By “Cleek”) FORTHCOMING EVENTS. June 11-18—N.S.W. Amateur Championship, Sydney. June 13—U.S.A. Open Championship, Oakmont. June 20—French Ladies’ Open Championship, Le Touquet. July 11—British Open Championship, St. Andrews. August 22-27—U.S.A. Amateur Championship, Minnesota. August 23-27—Boys’ Amateur Championship, Barnton. September 2-10—New Zealand Championships, Hamilton. Four-ball match on the Park to-day. Queen’s Park ladies play a bogey match on Monday. Ayson Shield matches on the Park this week. A match for the Captain’s trophy will be played by the members of the Invercargill Ladies’ Club on Thursday. A proposal is on foot to make some alterations to the Park links, the idea being to considerably increase the length of the

course. The Queen’s Park players find that their handicap is too low when they play over other courses and the aforementioned scheme is to fix a scale of handicaps in uniformity with other clubs. The only way to get over the dificulty is to increase the length of the course, leaving the bogey as it stands. When five players in the junior grade return nett scores four and five strokes under bogey it is time that some alterations were made. No one gets more enjoyment out of the game of golf than Jack Doig. He was capering round the club house like a two-year-old on Saturday because he had discovered that he had reduced his handicap through the score he returned in the oneday tournament on Friday. "Old Jack” as his most intimate friends are privileged to call him, is a thorough sportsman and every club member will be glad to hear that he Is now in his ’teens. The performance of H. Trevethick in tieing for first place with a nett 77 in the stroke handicap at Otatara on Saturday is rendered all the more creditable by the fact that he has only recently taken his place in the A grade. Soon after doing so however, he reduced his handicap still further and was playing from the 11 murk when he contested Saturday’s match. It was apparent from the numerous indentations on the Queen’s Park greens on Monday that some lady had been play mg in extremely high heels. Members of the ladies' club carefully examined their footwear on their return to the clubhouse and established the fact they were all free from blame in the matter. The greens are very soft just now and only the widest heels should be used. H. Smith had a royal chance of leading the junior division in last Saturday’s match at Otatara. A four or even a five at Dunn’s Road would have given him a straightout win or a tie for first place respectively, but unfortunately an eight had to be recorded for this hole and his nett 76 was only good enough for a tie for third place. Considering that the greens were commencing to cut up badly under the succession of severe frosts, the scores returned by the Queen’s Park ladies in their L.G.U. Medal match on Monday afternoon were very sound, the players filling the first three places all reducing their handicaps. Twenty-four players took out cards. '1..3 results were as follows: Mrs Tait 106 36 —7O; Mrs Scott 102—31—71; Miss Hughes 100—29—71. Owing to a misunderstanding over the report of the ladies match between the Riverton and Queen’s Park representatives, Mrs Tait was credited with a defeat at the hands of Mrs Griffiths, whereas she had a substantial win over the Riverton player, finishing 7 up and 5 to play. Mrs Tait continued to play steady golf on the following Monday and headed the list of competitors in the L.G.U. match played on the Park that day. The Greens Committee of the Park Club apparently chose an unfortunate time for coating the greens with sand, for immediately after the task was completed a succession of frosts made their appearance with the result that below the putting surface there was a layer of frozen sand. The most seriously affected green was the new 16th and it has now been decided to go back to the old green nearer the bunker. The St. George Challenge Cup was this year won by W. L. Hartley, of Cooden Beach, who completed the 36 holes in 153 strokes. J. A. Board of Home Park was second with 157, while Rex Hartley (Cooden Beach) and Cyril Tolley (St. George) tied for third place with a score of 158. The St. George Cup, which is the most important British amateur event decided by stroke play, is second only in importance to the British Amateur Championship. Last year Major Hezlet, the American, won with 158. George Von Elm and Bobby Harris, the then British Amateur champion, tied for second place with 161. For some reason or other the reports of the British Women’s Championship were not cabled to the Australian and New Zealand papers. There wa«, however, the prediction by London critics that Mlle Simone Chaume would be likely to be the first overseas woman golf champion since Lady Margaret Scott won the first open championship in 1893. In making this forecast they would be guided first by the fact that Misses Joyce Wethered, Cecil Leitch and Doris Chambers were to be absentees from the field, and secondly by the fact that the French player had been playing particularly brilliant golf prior to the contest. The field, however, was by no means weak as it contained the names of Audrey Croft, Muriel Wickenden and Enid Wilson (three girls’ championship winners) Mrs Gavin, ex-champion of Belgium and Canada, Miss Moliy Gourlay Anglo-French and Belgian ex-champion, and Miss Janet Jackson, the Irl«h champion. Mlle Chaume had a hard fight in the first round before she defeated Mrs Garon, last year’s runnerup to Miss Wethered. The fourth round resulted as follows: Miss Gow defeated Mrs Watson 2 and 1. Mlle d? la Chaume defeated Miss Gardiner 6 and 5; Miss Wilson (18 years of age) defeated Mrs Watson 2 and 1; Mrs Percy defeated Mrs Green 4 and 2; Mlle Leban defeated Mrs Green 4

Tolhurat 4 and 2; Mrs Bamber beat Miss Cameron 4 and 2; Miss Pearson beat Mrs Gavin 5 and 4; and Miss Bourley beat Miss Hannon 5 and 3. Four of the youngest competitors contested the semifinals. Mias Pearaon who defeated Miss Gourlay is 21, Mlle de la Chaume who defeated Miss Gow is 18, Miss Wilson who defeated Mrs Percy is 18, and Mlle Leban who beat Mrs Bamber is 21. The semifinal resulted: Ml«« Pearson beat Mlle Leban 4 and 3; Mlle de la Chaume beat Mias Wilson 7 and 6. The final resulted in favour of the French player. The match between representatives of the Gore and Wyndham Golf Clubs which was played at Wyndham under ideal weather conditions on June 1, ended all square, the results being as follows, Gore names being mentioned first —Houston lost to Henderson 3 and 2; Hawke lost to Nichol one down; Ritchie and Gifford all square; Richards beat Sheehan 7 and 5; Finlayson lost to Macpherson 4 down; Fisher beat Hannan one up; G. Young lost to Ball one down. B. V. Wright, who won the South Canterbury Golf Championship last year, and in doing so completed the second round in 72 strokes—the best amateur round ever played in competition on the Timaru course —was again victorious this year, his rounds of 78 and 73 respectively giving a total of 151, three strokes better than the next competitor E. A. Scott, 77-77-154, with L. Sumpter 85-74-159 third and J. W. Fair 82-80-162 fourth. Mixed foursomes were played by the members of the Winton Golf Club on June 1 under ideal weather conditions. Following were the best scores—Mrs Kerse and MacDougall 51-8-43; Mrs Cowie and Kidd 56-12-44; Miss Horner and Lindsay 60-10-50; Mrs Martin and Martin 59-9-50. Although the team of Balclutha players which tried conclusions with a Gore team at Gore on June 3 was beaten by a substantial margin of games the majority of the matches were closely contested and this augurs well for the standard of golf played by the Balclutha men later in the season when their course has had time to settle down a bit. The Gore Club put in a strong team, and taking everything into consideration the Balclutha players had every reason to be satisfied with their performance. The results were as follows, Gore players first—Singles—Scott beat Thompson 4 and 3; Hawke beat Scolan 2 and 1; Poppelwell lost to Clark one down; Houston beat Grigor 2 and 1; Young beat Brewer 5 and 4; Boyne beat MacDonald 5 and 4; Hamilton beat Sproule 4 and 3; Ritchie beat Barnett 3 and 2; Dolamore beat Macnamara 2 and 1. Four-ball matches—Scott and Poppelwell beat Thompson and Grigor 5 and 3; Hawke and Houston beat Clark and MacDonald 1 up; Hamilton and Ritchie beat Sproule and Stewart 5 and 3; Young and Boyne lost to Scolan and Brewer 3 and 1; Dolamore and Fisher beat Barnett and Macnamara 6 and 5. Sensational golf was played by the Auckland provincial champion, H. B. Lusk, on the Arikikapakapa links recently. He went out in 29 and returned in 32, a total of 61, 12 strokes below bogey and 5 fewer than the course record put up by A. A. Duncan and A. Shaw. A four at the first was followed by a three at the second, despite the finding of a bunker from the tee necessitating a chip to the flag. At the third he drove elap on the green and holed out with his next shot. At the fourth, 389yds, he lipped the hole with his second shot and was down in three. An error in approaching at the fifth made him take five, costing him a win, and at the sixth he was down in two, and at the seventh sank a chip for three. A putt failed to hold the cup at the eighth, but nevertheless, he was down in four, and three put him right at the ninth. He started the return with a five for the long tenth, his fourth lipping the hole. After a four at the next he had four three’s in succession, the fourth being 345yds and the fifteenth 419yds. At these his seconds laid him dead. At the sixteenth a bad chip lost him the hole to the Colonel. Nearly down from the tee at the seventeenth, a few inches preventing a hole in one, he finished the last in four. His full card was— Out: 43235234 3—29 In; 54333352 4—32 LEADING N.Z. PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS used KRO-FLITE golf balls with remarkable success at Rotorua Tournament. All leading events won with it, including Open Championship. Tuned to a new internal construction to give greater distance. All but indestructible. A 10/- ball for 3/3 —will outlast any four others. BRITISH MADE by Spaldings, the KRO-FLITE “Lasts Till it’s Lost.”