GOLF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16583, 16 November 1921, Page 3

GOLF.

AT AND ABROAD, A player who wishes to be successful must never allow himself to think of what he has already done. That lias gone, never to return ; idle regrets are useless; he must concentrate the whole of his attention upon what he has in front of him. He must not allow a bad or an indifferent stroke to put him off his game; he must think only of what is to come ; what yet remains to be accomplished. The ordinary player might be throvm out of his stride after making a poor shot, perhaps, but he must educate himself up to the noint of feeling no regret for what has already occurred.—J. T. Taylor in “ Golf Illustrated.” According to the New Zealand ‘‘Herald,” a charity golf/ match has been arranged between Mr "Wilkie Bard, comedian, and E- S- Douglas, New Zealand professional champion, to be played at Miramar. Wellington. Mr Bard is to concede Douglas two strokes a hole, and undertakes to donate £SO to the fund for the new Plunket Home, if he beats the champion. “ The match,” said Mr Bard. “ will be between the~"best golfer in New Zealand and one of the worst.” He added that •he loved the game of golf, and he held the music-hall pennant in Britain, where he had beaten, among others, Harry Dander at South Shore. Blackpool, Jimmy Wilde, the well-known boxer, Tommy Burns and Joe Beckett. Mr Bard added : ‘‘lt will be great fun playing Douglas, and if he lets me beat him in order, to get niv £SO for the Plunket Home—well, those who witness the game will have an enjoyable time, unci I will be able to say that I beat the New Zealand champion.” Donald Mathieson, of the Edinburgh Academy, fifteen years of age, had established a lead of four, but his opponent, Guy Dintott, of Felsted, and a year older, was one down approaching the last hole, h aving been dormy three, j sav s G. W. Greenwood in the London “ Telegraph,” when describing the final of the British boys’ championship at* the Royal Ascot Club recently. Some remarkable play was witnessed at the 36th and 3/th holes. “ The excitement had now commenced in earnest, and there was no attempt at concealment,” says Mr Greenwood, “ Dintott played ‘•the last hole in a style which would have done infinite credit to any plus or scratch golfer. It measures 540yds, and you are given a six for it. A five is godd goin" but a four for a boy of fifteen is almost # unthinkable. But that is the figure in which Dintott accomplished the hole. Besides, there was not the semblance of a fluke about it either. He was on tho edge of the green with two great wooden club shots—true, the second shoi i s all down hill, and the ground as hard as a brick—and then chipped up to the holeside. To any ordinary nioital, who had seen three previous holes vanish like snow on a summer’s day. this would have come as a terrible blow. But not, seemingly, to Master Mathieson. who was absolutely unruffled and almost inhumanly calm. He took a dreadful long time to pla> the thirty-seventh, but he played U magnificently and like a man. In his hurry to deliver the knock-out, Lintott lost control of himself at the most crucial moment of all. He topped his drive, and, as luck would have it, thb ball ran through a bunker. He had a perfectly open green to play to, but he sliced his iron shot into a trench, and from there he thumped the ball over the green- This was Mathieson’s glorious, chance to settle the business once and for all. He took it. The hole measures 390yds. and lie was on the green with a drive and a threequarter iron shot and down in four—bogey five. So these youths had accomplished the last two holes, played in three shots under bogey. This was the sort of golf we were treated to, not at every hole, to be sure, for that would be expecting too much.” Miss Winifred Sarson, of Gooden Bench, • Bexhill-on-Sea. won the Girls’ Golf Championship at Stoke Poges, Slough. She defeated Miss Marjorie Parkinson, of Thorpe Hall. Southend-on-Sea, in the final bv 5 up and 3 to play. It was Miss Sarson’s better controlled swing that gained the viet°rv. Tn spite of its shortness—- “ Sometimes it’s long; it’s always different. ; I never know what going to be,” she said at the finish—she hit the ball- very hard and won three of the first four holes. Both nlnyers are nineteen, and little more than beginners at golf. Miss Sarson took to the game two years ago. and has had three instructors—Tom Gillespie, of Boxhill ; Arnaud Massy, the famous French player; and Fred Robson, of Gooden Beach. From this variety of teaching she has evolved an excellent stvle of her own. Miss Parkinson began to play only sixteen months ago. so that her progress under the tuition of Bert Batley, the Thorpe Hall professional, has been astonishingly rapid. Efforts are being made to arrange a match between the girl champion ’"and the boy champion, Donald Mathieson, of Edinburgh Academy.