GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1920, Page 3

GOLF.

NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. The St. Andrew's medal handicap will be played on the New Plymouth Club's links tills afternoon. The draw Is: W. H. Robertsliaw v. Ktherlngton; It. T. McQuade v. H. Kloxam; H. S Elliott v. T. A. B. Bnllev; A. Bewley v. Hatchings; F. S. Johns r. S. Quickfall; J S Vaton v McHardy; Butcher v. S. Burgess; MclCny v. A. Osborne. On the Walwnkaiho links on Tuesday, the ladies will play the qualifying round for the Brewster Cup, a medali handicap for senior and junior players, the best sixteen net scorea to qualify. THE LOST BALL RULE. The Americans who are going over to Eng- [ land to confer with St. Andrews about the i Rules of Golf, are said to be strong on two 1 points. T)ne Is the abolition of tho stymie. Tho other is the reduction of the "lost ball" penalty. The Americana propose thnt in. future the penalty for last ball should be j loss of distance only. But there aro ob-: vious objections to this. The man who tops his drive into a bad place a couple of yards in front of him has only to make sure that j he doesn't find it within five minutes, and he will be allowed, under the proposed Tule, to drop another under loss of distance only—whereas it might take him several strokes to get clear if he tried to play It! How do our American friends propose to make sure that ' the man who tops his drive into a patch of I heather, is going to make a bonaflde effort to I find his ball? And why should the man who is unlucky enough to find it be worse of! than 1 another man who does the same thine and i j "doesn't know where it went?" I I FREAK GOLFERS. | The real freak golfer is to bo found abroad. I ! In "Golf's Little Ironies," Mr. Hairy Fulford, | j tells us of his experiences in Egypt, where 1 | on one and tho same day he gave lessons to an American, a German Count, a. Russian banker, a Greek cigarette merchant, a Frenchman (now-a good golfer), and an Egyptian I'nshpM When the cigarette merchant happened to shift his bail from the tee he refused to follow It and ordered a caddie to bring him a chair, In which he sat, smoking a cigarette, until the ball was brought back, when he hit it again, and once more resumed his seat. Two other queer pupils, trying a round fcr the first, time, returned in two hours, and when asked the result, said that. A had won by 44 up. They had ignored the holes altogether and kept on hitting, one point being scored on each occasion ror the longer hit.