GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 3

GOLF.

VISIT OF WELLINGTON PROFESSIONAL. PRAISE FOR WAIWAKAIHO LINKS, AN EXHIBITION ROUND. Some very fine golf was witnessed at the New Plymouth Club's links at Waiwakaiho yesterday, when A. Ham, the Wellington Club’s professional, played a four-ball exhibition match with D. H. Butcher, A. Smith and F. jJ. Johns. Ham was partnered by Butcher and ! played some magnificent shots, doing many of i the holes under bogey. After the game he • gave an exhibition of driving from the first ' tee, showing ordinary drives, drives with slice, ; with pull, and a low drive against the wind, i while he astonished the spectators, of whom there were a good number present, by playing a full drive from off his cigarette case. Ham considers the Waiwakaiho links really good and he stated that the club had the makings of a really first-class course, giving splendid test of golf. As far as situation was concerned he had never seen a better course. The chief improvements necessary are bunkers and Ham is reporting to the club suggestions to improve the course. He did the round yesterday in 75. Following are the details of his card:— The first two holes were done for five each. He found the rough at the right of No. 1 fairway in the first and overran the green at the second. The third was holed out in 3, Smith laying an iron shot two yards from the pin and holing out in two. The long fourth was done in a fine five, holing out with a four-yard putt for a four at the fifth. At the sixth hole, Ham pulled his second, but laid his niblick approach dead, getting a good four. The seventh was registered in three, and the eighth in five, just lipping a long putt for a four, while the ninth was done in bogey. At the tenth he just overshot the green with his tee shot, and barely missing a putt for three, holed out in four. Tlie green was found with two fine shots at the eleventh, two putts letting him out for four. ' ’ At the short twelfth, Ham was a yard over the green and •almost holed out with a clip shot, nearly doing the hole for a two. Butcher holed out the thirteenth for three with a shot off the green, Ham doing it in four. Ham pulled his tee shot at the fourteenth and then clipped out of the rushes dead, the ball going into the hole and out again. Twa magnificent wooden shots found him just short of the green at the fifteenth, holing out in five, a fine jigger shot on to the green enabling him to do the sixteenth in three. The was done in four, and at the eighteenth he again played splendid wooden shots against the wind, but was unfortunate in his approach shot sicking in the rough at the edge of the green. He holed- out with a good putt for five. KIRKWOOD IN AMERICA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 12, 9.10 p.m. New York, Oct. 11. At Newark, New Jersey, Kirkwood and Hagen finished one down to McLeod and Cruickshank over 36 holes, to-day.