GOLF.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143788, 11 May 1912, Page 8

GOLF.

(By “All-Square.”)

On Tuesday the Ngamotu lady players will play the second round for the AVeston Cup, and on the Saturday the men will play the second round for the Ngamotu trophy. The committee of the New Plymouth Club is now going into the question of plans for the pavilion and caretaker’s cottage for the new course at AA’aiwakaiho. The pavilion at present in use will probably be moved and enlarged. At Tarahua to-day a ladies’ foursome for the Club Buttons is being played. On Thursday next there will bo a men’s medal handicap for the St. George’s Cross, and on the Saturday a men’s Bogey handicap. The New Zealand Ladies’ Championship Meeting will take place in Nelson during the last week in August. The Manawatu and , Napier ladies’ annual open tournaments will he held about the middle of September, the actual dates being still uncertain. The Campbell-Hosking Shield singles match for the shield presented in 1900 by Air. J. H. Hoskins, of Dunedin, and Dr. Graham Campbell, of Christchurch, was played on May 1 on Balmacewen, when Christchurch won by 3 points. This shield was won by Christchurch in 1900, 1902, 1908, and bv Otago in 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, li)0G, 1907, and 1909. In 1910 the match resulted in a draw, and in 1911 no matches were played. The Hanmer Challenge Shield for foursomes match play was presented by Mr. B. E. AV. Hanmer, of Christchurch, in 1898, in which year it was won by Christchurch, who'also won in 1899, 1904, 1906, and 1907, Otago winning it in 1901, 1902, 1903, 1903, 1908, 1909, and 1910. In 1900 the match resulted in a draw, and in 1911 there were no matches. Otago, who were 11 holes ahead of Christchurch, won this year’s match.

A match was played on May 3 on Balmacewen Links between teams representing the Christchurch and Otago Golf Clubs (men and ladies) for the possession of the Orbell Challenge Cup, at present held by Otago. The teams consisted of six men and six ladies, singles being played in the morning and mixed foursomes in the afternoon. The games were scored by holes. Otago w r on by 15 holes. The other day in a bogey competition a player, after approaching right on to the lip of the hole, walked up to his ball and gently tapped it into the hole with the shaft end of his club, and his card for this hole was marked square with bogey. There was no chance whatever of missing the putt, as the ball lay right on the tin, but the question at once occurred to me, as a spectator, as to whether the player did not actually lose the hole. Rule o clearly says that the ball must bo fairly struck at with the “head” of the club, not pushed, scraped, nor spooned (the penalty for a breach of this rule being the loss of the hole). As the player struck at the ball with the “shaft” of the club it would seem that a breach of the rule was committed. If the player had “accidentally” dropped his club and the shaft had struck the ball and caused it to move, the penalty would have been one stroke.