GOLF NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 14

GOLF NOTES

CLUB COMPETITIONS By “Cicek.” Invercargill Club. July 25 —Match v. Queen’s Park. August I—Flag match. August B—Medal8 —Medal handicap. The annual match with Queen’s Park will be played on Saturday—seniors at Queen’s Park and juniors at Otatara. On Saturday week a strong team will go to Dunedin to visit the St. Clair Club. The Ranfurly Shield match between Otago and Southland is an additional attraction and for this elaborate train arrangements have been made. These should suit the golfers very well. For those who do not go to Dunedin on Saturday week there will be a flag match—an interesting form of stroke competition.

If conditions arc favourable the cutters will be put over the fairways this week. There has been an exceptional winter growth of grass and a dress up with the mowers would greatly improve the course. It is not often that cutting is required at Otatara in July. Those who got out early last SaturI day completed their rounds in the four- ' ball bogey handicap (seniors and juniors partnered) in very pleasant weather, but those who were later in starting were caught in heavy rain and most of them made a dash for the clubhouse. One of them had a chance ->f equalling the winning score of two up, but none of them expected that three up would be good enough to lift the prize. In such matches scores of five or six up are, as a rule, merely ordinary, and the winners generally knock “the Colonel” about to the tune of nine up or more. However, whatever the reason may have been, and mostly it was putting, the best cards returned were marked two up, W Buchan and L. B. Hutton tieing with H. W. Rogers and J. A. Doig and the former pair winning in the count back. Next to these two leading pairs were four pairs who finished all square. For once in a four-ball event the honours of the day certainly went to bogey.

Queen's Park Club.

A and B grade players were partnered in a stableford aggregate handicap at Queen’s Park on Saturday. The weather was pleasantly fine and this no doubt had something to do with the excellent scores returned. The winners were C. J. Fleming (33 points) and C. Brew (38), their aggregate of 71 giving them two points to spare from T. Double (36) and C. McEachran (33). F. J. Perham (33) and C. Hinchcliffe (35) who had finished earlier than the other two pairs, looked like the winners for a long time. They were closely pressed by G. E. Glennie (38) and A. E. McGrath (29); D. Cochrane (33) and B. Murgatroyd (33); and G. E. Robertson (36) and D. W. Stalker (30). Only four are now left in the Holloway Shield competition. In the top semi-final J. J. White (11) meets J. G. Niccol (1), and at the bottom of the draw C. J. Fleming (11) meets S. Blomfield (13). Both matches should be keenly contested. White has been play - ing well this season and Niccol will have to be at top form to give away eight strokes and win. Fleming and Blomfield are more evenly matched; it is hard to say who will reach the final, but at the present time Fleming seems to be playing the better golf. The Ayson Shield match, women v. men, will be played this year on August 8.