GOLF

Southland Times, Issue 21659, 22 March 1932, Page 4

GOLF

THE GORE CLUB. ANNUAL REPORT. The annual report of the Gore Golf Club states that the season began with a membership of 190 and ended with 192, exclusive of new Summer Club members. This is exclusive of a number of players who joined for the summer season and who will probably in most cases become full members this season. During the coming season it was hoped to play a proportion of the matches on the Croydon links. Mr J. I). Scott visited Gore during the season in his capacity as coach and his services were very freely availed of. Summer golf was more popular than ever, and weekly matches were played on the East Gore links. A further lease of the East Gore property had been secured to December, 1938. This property was in excellent condition as a result of work during the summer on both greens and fairways. The Croydon links were in much improved condition, although the greens and tees were still not up to the standard expected by the Greens Committee. The fairways are in good order, which might be attributed in great measure to the new triplex mower—a very great improvement on the old mower, which was disposed of at a fairly satisfactory figure. During the season Mr J. A. S. Aitken undertook to collect donations from members towards the cost of making a gravelled entrance and parking area. The response was so good that the work was completed without, calling on toe funds of tjie club, and in addition a cattle stop gateway was built. The trees planted to provide shelter at the tecs were well established and should soon enable the club to dispense with the manuka breakwinds. Drainage had been carefully considered, and the gullies had been opened up by means of ditches. The question of destroying weeds on the greens was also receiving attention, and a new treatment which had elsewhere proved successful was to be given a trial and the greens committee is hopeful of good results. The Croydon links were officially opened by the president on May 20, 1931. Towards the end of 1931 it was becoming clear that it would be impossible to balance the finances, and a special general meeting was called for October 13 to consider a notice of motion to impose a levy on all members. This proposal was dropped in favour of a canvass of all members to play summer golf, and the response was so good that the financial position improved greatly. It must be clear to members, however, that this could be only a temporary expedient, and they would be asked to consider the notice of motion to amalgamate the present winter and summer subscriptions. The committee wished to record its appreciation of the work of the green committee, Messrs Fisher, Aitken and Hawke.