GOLF AND GOLFERS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 4

GOLF AND GOLFERS

TARANAKI , CLUB MATCHES

IN TERCHANGES OF VISITS.

.DEFEAT OF SEAFIELD TEAM.

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• On Saturday tho first round of the C. H. Weston trophy will'be played on the links at Waiwakaiho. As has been stated before in these columns this competition is taking the form of two handicap medal rounds of foursomes, the seniors to be partnered by juniors. Players should lose no time in arranging their partners and opponents. There are plenty of juniors available and it is to be hoped that the seniors will do their part and rally up in full force. The second round will take place on September 6. During the week-end the Inglewood club, team will pay its return visit and are sending ten.players to Waiwakaiho. As all the games in Inglewood;were extremely' well, contested this fixture should be a' very interesting one.’ Leo Quin was in great form- in the flecond qualifying round at Eltham and’ created fresh figures for the course when he returned a great card of 7*2, which represents the par of the course. He has been having trouble with his game for some time past but this is due to certain alterations that he has 'been making to his game and Leo, when he is convinced that any modifications are right, will never stop until he has accomplished his object. His latest effort would seem to indicate that he has succeeded and his progress in this event will be watched with interest. A. L. Abbott followed up hie first round of 75 with a 77 and tied with Quin for (first place with , a gross total of 152, a' fine effort at'this time ; of the year. H. P.'Wills also returned the good card of 78. Jimmy Quin’s 81 was an improvement on the previous week but still a bit below what this player is capable of. However, he may do better in the match play.

MATCH AGAINST SEAFIELD.. ’ A big team of twenty eight players from the (Wanganui) - Club made the journey to New Plymouth during last week-end and played a match against the New Plymouth Club. The weather conditions in the morning looked anything but propitious but they improved about'ten o’clock and in the afternoon were quite good. Though- the visitors Buffered a rather severe defeat they' were anything but disgraced and their top pair, Jack Goss and Moulder proved too coliil for a strong'New Plymouth pair in Conway and Mackay, winning by 4 up and 3 to play, both in the morning and the afternoon. Moulder was the outstanding man of the four and played some very fine golf. Boon and F. -S. Johns proved much., too good for Gilbert and Irwin, neither of whom were able to strike their best form. However, as Boon was round, in 74 in the afternoon their task was not an easy one. The visiting pair who Were pitted, against the youngsters, "F. D. Johns and T. A. Thomson, were up against it properly, for the former, a 16 handicap man, was round in 80 in the morning and 83 in the afternoon, and this latter score included sevens at the eventh and sixteenth, and a six at Moses. Further down the list still, •a twenty-four handicap man in V. Duff treated his guests to a whole string of bogies that . would have aroused the , ( envy of even Conway and Goss. The visitors were tremendously impressed with ' the excellent condition of the course .which they considered the befit that they had played on this season, and in his speech afterwards, their club captain, Mr; Elery Gilbert, stated that he was sure that the new course would come right up to championship standard.

During the week-end a twenty-four handicap player in Budd, .burnt up the course at Waiwakaiho in’ the wonderful score of 77. This player has always hit a long ball but on this occasion it was. deadly work with his mas'hie that had . a great deal to, do with his fipe card. Three or four times his shots actually hit the pin and on numerous occasions flopped close. A repetition of this .form will make him hard ,to beat in the junior championship. The team to play ..Inglewood tomorrow is C. H. .Stephenson, A. S. Hasell. F. S. Johns, W. C. Weston, R. H. Quilliam, T. P. Anderson, A. _N. Other, J. J. Lomas, H. W. Martin and W. B. Russell.

AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP. The latest mail has brought detailed results of the American Open Championship. At the end of the first day’s play Horton Smith was leading by two strokes from Bobby Jones and was playing so well that critics iwere beginning to doubt whether Bobby could make up the leeway, but the Atlanta star then came to light with a wonderful recordbreaking round of 68 and Horton Smith, though still playing well, appeared tired and slipped a little. Bobby, at the conclusion of the sixteenth hole had two par fours left for a sixty-six, but dropped a stroke at each of the last two holes and only had a 68! His form was not so good in the final round and he had to hole a forty footer at the last hole for a birdie three and a 75, which made his title safe. This last green in the open would appear to be a lucky one for him as l&st year he holed a twelve footei - there to tie with Espinosa and then win on the' play off. MacDonald Smith came to light with a great 70 in the final round and gained second honours, the same position that he had filled in the British event. By the way, Jones emphatically denied the statement that he intends retiring from competitive golf. Johnny Farrell had a rather peculiar experience in the first round. He commenced with a very disastrous eight at the first, a par four hole, but then reeled off five birdies in succession, took a six at a par five hole, and reached the turn in 36, equal to par. One of the features of the event was the great showing of the amateur, John G. Goodman, who -jumped into prominence last year by defeating Bobby Jones in the first round of the Amateur. Goodman showed that this was no fluke by finishing in the first ten despite a disastrous second, round of 80. . .

“808 11Y” HUMAN AFTER ALL. E. M. Cockrell gives a bright description of Bobby- Jones’ fourth round in the British open last June. Jones started out one stroke behind Compston and two ahead of Diegel. He was not hflppy ftbout his./game., : and< ; the strain .w?js evidently very se.yeye, ( At .B?<?ojn<£ he

cut his tee shot badly, and the ball pitched on a spectator’s head and bounced off it quite 30 yards into a bunker. From here he played a magnificent shot to the green (the hole is 369 yards) •and holed- the putt for a three. At the . third, his. approach putt travelled only half-way to the hole. But it was at the Bth, ’4BO yards against the wind, that he crashed. Two magnificent woods put him about 30 yards short of the green. To quote Mr. Cockell: “His third, which just reached the ( green, was worthy of a 10 handicap player not at his best; his fourth, very short, was worthy of an honest, full-blooded rabbit; his fifth would not have got him a club handicap; and his sixth was reminiscent of an L.G.U. 36. Mr. Jones had taken a 71” After this he gradually mastered himself, and by. the time he reached the 14th was the usual machine. He played master golf from the 14th to the end and got a 75. Jones’ lapse might well have lost him the title, but Compston could do nothing right and took 82, his record G 8 of the morning having apparently taken too much out of him, and Diegel just missed his chance by slipping strokes here and there.

LADIES’ INTER-CLUB GOLF. INGLE WOOD CLUB’S. VICTORY. A team of New Plymouth lady'golfers ■was beaten at Inglewood yesterday. Inglewood won all the foursomes, but Mrs. Birch-Johnston' (Inglewood) and Miss Bates were all square. The New Plymouth visitors were hospitably entertained and had an enjoyable day. Details, Inglewood names first, are: — Mrs. Grant and Miss Morton defeated Mrs. Mac Diarmid and Mrs. Quilliam, 3 and 2. Firs. Darlow and Mrs. Gow defeated Miss Cameron and Mrs. Stainton, 5 and 4. Mrs. Partridge and Mrs. Pope defeated Mrs. Wade and Mrs. Mander, 2 and. 1. .’ Miss Wilson apd Mrs/ Armstrong defeated Mrs. Wilson and Miss Brodie, 2 and 1. . ■ ' • Mrs. Baxter and Mrs. Mulholland defeated Miss M. Morton and Mrs. Corfe, 6 and 5. Mrs. Kirk and Mrs. Parfitt defeated Miss M. Thomson and Mrs. Taylor, 7 and 6. Mrs. Birch-Johnston' and Miss Bates, all square.