GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 318, 6 July 1912, Page 7

GOLF.

NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. To-day the third modal handicap for the St. Andrew's Cross and club button will be played. Only those with handicaps of twelve and under are eligible for this match. For those with handicaps over twelve, a medal handicap is set down. The entrance fee for each of these matches is sixpence. On Thursday a match took place at Tnglewood between the Inglewood and New Plymouth clubs, and resulted in an easy win for the latter by eight games to two. A return match will probably be arranged at an early date. Members arc again asked to refrain from standing close to the hole on the putting greens, as it was noticed last week that many of the holes had been considerably damaged through treading too close to them. When the flag-stick fs being held in the hole, the player holding it should stand at arm's length away from it. The afternoon tea accounts have now been made up to June :){), and lists showing the individual amounts payable by members have been posted in the club house. An apt illustration of the ardent golfer was recently forthcoming in a Southland centre, when a lady golfer, undeterred by sheets of water, which lay like miniature lakes all over the links, and revelling in the acrobatic feats of necessity to safe negotiation of the ditches, was seen in a life and death struggle with "Mr. Bogey." It is on record that neither bedraggled skirts nor feminine loquacity had any impression on her stolid adversary, and thivt another was added to his long list of (victories. - - • , >(**„&'&_■,.**...■**