THE GAME OF GOLF

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 804, 3 July 1933, Page 11

THE GAME OF GOLF

BY a THE COLONEL

The man who works the weather was very kind to golfers over the week-end. Saturday was excellent, and Sunday was almost ideal. At Shirlev, C. A. Seymour and G. N. Francis won the four-ball bogey with a card of 6 up. one hole better than I. M. Godby and C. J. Ward. In a flag match at Hagley, twelve players took the flag to within a few feet of the nineteenth hole. F. E. Morris won the senior event, and C. Buchanan won in the junior division. At Harewood. C. E. Hoy and W. F. Blackwell had a great game in the final of the Ward Cup. Hoy won 2 and 1. Both have been playing excellent golf lately. A. R. Blank was in great form at Harewood yesterday. He and N. Roake won the four-ball bogey, their card being 8 up. Blank took only 72 for the course, three strokes under bogey, in spite of a couple of sixes. He is playing exceptionally steady golf at present. The first round of the Millner Cup at Templeton resulted in a number of good games. The club team had a narrow win over the B.M.A. team which paid Templeton a visit. F. Instone, playing in the Millner Cup at Templeton, holed his tee shot at the short fourth. This is the second time this season that the hole has been done Templeton are at present engaged in putting down a watering scheme, which will cost the club in the vicinity of £7OO. The course has the makings of an outstandingly good piece of country, but till now. lack of water has made even reasonable greens an impossibility. With a good water supply, Templeton must become a first-class course. D. B. L. Bowker. a young Waimairi plaver, had a field day yesterday. He carried the flag to the .twenty-first green to win the went, doing a <7 off the stick. In the afternoon he r.ose to greater heights, and turned on a 74 off the stick. His mark is at present 12 but it looks as though he will not be there for long. He has been improving steadily over the \past twelve months. Bogey for the course is 76. “ Move Those Hips.” A hint from Bobby Jones: “ I think there is scarcely one golfer in a hundred who moves his hips in anything like the correct way. /He tries in every other place to correct faults, which in the last analysis are traceabUe directly to the improper use of the mid-section of his body. “ The reason the swing of an expert appears to be more leisurely, is because he uses the powerful muscles in his back and waist, while the average golfer does not. In addition to neglecting a valuable source of power, the average golfer finds himself suffering' from many faults which directly due to Iris failure to turn his hips enough. He never turns away far enough so that he has a chance of swinging the club down to the ball from the inside. He simply cannot get in close with his down-swing. Tn order to make sure that my hips will turn sufficiently in the back-swung. I like to that I am originating the movement with them." Picking- Up a Tee. A well-known golfer playing a hall into the wind from the high tee at Waimairi the other day, apparently got well under it. The evidence indicating this is that when after completing the stroke, and hooking the ball, he found the tee firmly embedded in the ” sweet spot ” of the club face. ft was as effectively driven in the wood as if a hammer had been used. In fact, had a hammer been used, it is doubtful if the tee would have stood up to the hitting. A few years ago. on a northern course, a competitor in a professional event not*?d that his ball off an iron shot flew in a most erratic fashion. When he came up to the ball he discovered that a tee peg had penetrated the cover of the ball, and gone clean through it. leaving an eighth of an inch of the point protruding. Apparently in taking turf the player had struck a lost, tee behind the ball, and most effectively driven it through the bajl. “ Matt ” Hits Them. Regularly there are discussions about the distance a ball is (or can be) made to travel when a mighty smiter in golf gets properly on to it (says a writer in the Melbourne “ Herald ”). Tom Douglas, of Eastern, saw E. C. Bliss at Herne Bay. in 1913, wallop a ball 445 yards. That is the longest hit ever recorded and authenticated in golf. But that was a freak shot, down hill and not in normal turf, or other conditions. I have seen drives that went onlv 200 yards that were in the conditions super-shots. Normally (that is over thick turf, on level country and without wind assisting) 250 yards is a Very long drive, and even the Jehus of the links can hardly hope more than occasionally, and with their “ all out ” and fortunately perfectly-timed shots, to get more than 300 yards. The longest drive that I have actually seen made in first-class golf was made by Harry Hatttersley when he won the amateur championship of Australia at Metropolitan in 1930. From the 14th tee he hit a low ball that, without more than a mere breeze behind it, carried into a bunker 300 yards from the tee. This Sydney player again during the N.S.W. championship proved that he is Australia’s biggest golf hitter. The other day life used a No. 2 iron from the tee at the 395 yards 9th hole of the Australian links to avoid catching the bunker 300 yards away. His smack with that club out-distanced thP driver Wit of powerful Georges Capel by forty yards. With drive and No. 2 iron he was on the 445 yards Bth, where on the day only a few others could get with two woods. Christchurch Club. A four-ball bogey match was played at Shirley on Saturday. C. A. Seymour and G. N. Francis handed in the best card, 6 up, with C. J. Ward and I. M. Godby in second place 5 up. Scores:— C. A. Seymour and G. N. Francis 6 up T. M. Godby and G. J. Ward 5 up E. R. Reay and M. K. Gray 4 up J. M. Epps and L. Treleaven 4 up R. Cracroft Wilson and H. G. Helmore 3 up A. R. Blank and D. Reese .... 3 up J. Wyn Irwin and L. J. Taylor 3 up P. E. Allison and F. Armstrong 3 up P. Wood and P. H. Wood .... 3 up W. Harman and F. G. Bristed 3 up A. L. Cropp and P. S. Foster 2 up P. H. Brown and F. A. Brit tan 2 up F. Cracroft Wilson and G. L. Rutherford 2 up C. A. Stringer and J. H. W. Sheppard 2 up T,. Harris and P. H. N. Freeth 2 up S. P. Godfrey and J. L. Will . . 1 up .1. Dolph and A. C. Thomson . . 1 up H. R. Bussell and G. G. Aitken 1 up M. H. Godby and I. M. Godby 1 tip W. G. Scannell and A. A. Boon 1 up M. J. Russell and D. M. Foreman - • ■ 1 up J. D. Marks and H. D. Butcher 1 up R. M. Adams and C. BonningR. W. Morgan" and H. S. Williams square A. B. Jones and W. N. Seay square Li. A. Dougail and W. J. Brown 1 down I Sir Cyril Ward and K. G. Archer .. .. 1 down j F. W. Freeman and J. K. Davidson 1 down W. R. Lascelles and A. T. Donnelly 1 down Sir Reginald Skelton and H. G. Denham ............... 1 down

H. Barlow and H. E. Button 2 down H. R. T. Spanjer and J. L. Vergette 2 down F. C. A’Court and M. A. Johnston - down H. W. Macfarlane and R. S. Beadel 2 down C. N. Fraser and L. M. Best 2 down R. J. Hobbs and F. S. Grant 2 down S. Wynne and G. W. Ward • • 2 down S. L. Rutherford and F. S. Taylor 3 down K. W. Robinson and N. E. Tingey - 3 down W. D. Wood and G. H. ood 3 down W. H. Cooper and M. G. Louisson 3 down B. C. Whitecombe and E. W. Hasell 3 down T. R. M. Hobbs and B. G. Dalgety 5 , WT I A. D. Tench and S. B. Simpson 5 down J. A. Oliver and G. N. Fairhurst : 5 down CAMPBELL CUP. In the semi-final of the Campbell' Cup H. W. Macfarlane beat P. H. M. Freeth 2 and 1. Harewood Club. C. E. Hoy and W. F. Blackwell had a good fight in the final of the Blank Cup. Hoy won, 2 and 1, and the game throughout was even. Both players have recently shown startling improvement. ' . A. R. Blank and N. Roake won the four-ball bogey played yesterday “with a card of 8 up. Blank was in fine form and did the course in 72, three below bogey, in spite of a couple of sixes. The best cards were:— A. R. Blank and N. Roake, 8 up. H. M. Tavlor and R. Twyneham, 6 up. J. H. Mortlock and G. Branthwaite, 6 up. R. G. Malcolmson and F. W. Stevens, 0. P A. Y. Johnston and W. S. G. Milne, 4 D P ‘and R. H. Neil, 4 up. A. W. Williams and T. C. Wallace, 4 UP C. Haigh and J. R. Mills, 3 up. J. S. Wilson and J. T. Taverner, 2 up. N. E. Tingey and J. D. Carl, 1 up. D. Angus and D. C. Crozier, 1 up. .1. D. Dalzell and R. R. Bell, 1 up. C. S. Peate and R. J. M’llroy, 1 up. E. T. Beaven and H. Studholme, 1 up. A. L. Kay and J. J. Agar, l up. F. Parris and H. K. Robertson, 1 down. , , A. F. Preston and A. B. Edwards, 1 down. _ „ A. E. Kincaid and C. L. Crowley, 2 down. _ S. J. Moore and C. T. Werren, 2 °A. n *C. Parson and E. H. Buckeridge, 2 down. C. L. Green and L. P. Syraes, 3 down. L. N. Austin and W. L. Lawry, 4 °Z"W. Binns and A. S. Geddes, 4 down. C. P. Agar and A. C. Thurlow, 5 down. D. Gower and N. Rumbold, 5 down. J. Camra and G. B. Slade, 6 down. Diamond Harbour Club. In the first round of the Godley House trophy, N. Thompson and Mrs G. Thompson beat G. Bowring and Miss M. Cook, W. C. Cleary and Miss I. Cleary beat G. Archer and Mrs Archer, J. Gower and Mrs E. Cooper beat G. Cooper and Miss N. Fitcaithly, A. T. Sinclair and Mrs G. Comer beat J. H. Collins and L. Blewett. Waimairi Beach Club. In the flag match played yesterday a fine score was returned by D. B. L. Bowker, who carried the flag to the twenty-first green. The best cards returned were:— *

Templeton Club. In the first round of the Millner Cup, G. T. Alley and Mrs Humphries beat F. Barrett and partner, W. W. M’Kinney and Alias Archey beat J- L. Findlay and Mrs Findlay. I. Mordon and Mrs Mordon beat W. Simes and Mrs Simes, Mr and Mrs Judkins beat P. H. Barnard and Mrs M’Killop, E. Gasson and Miss Musgrove beat M. O. Sinclair and Miss James, B. F. Keene and Miss Middleton beat J. Allen and Miss Tollerton, A. E. Grubb and Aliss Dickey beat W. R. Patrick and Mrs Eadie. W. Millner and Mrs Millner beat F. Cowper and Aliss Cowper, J. Gunderson and Aliss Alaclntyre beat W. R. Jones and Miss Jeffs, A. C. Al’Killop and Miss Fahey beat H. Woods and Aliss Still, F. Al’Tigue and Mrs Al’Tigue beat R. King and Mrs King, W. C. Smith and Mrs Smith beat R. QLewis and Mrs Lewis, G. P. Anderson and Mrs Anderson beat S. Alurfield and Aliss Seymour, H. S. Fraer and Aliss Hart beat F. Instone and Miss Bennett, G. Dickey and Aliss Dickey beat G. Condliffe and partner. B.M.A. v. Templeton. The following were the results of a match between Templeton and a 8.A1.A. team (Templeton names first):— Four-balls —Grubb and Patrick beat Scannell and Gray, Skinner and Macintyre lost to Allison and Thomson, Findlay and Lewis lost to Marks and Louisson, Spicer and Davis beat Reay and Sevan Brown, M’Kinney and Helmore beat Fahey and Morkane, Millner and Jones lost to Will and Guthrie. Singles—Grubb beat Scannell, Patrick beat Gray, Skinner and Foster squared, Alley beat Duncan, Macintyre lost to Allison, Keen lost to Thomson, Davis beat Marks, Woods beat Louisson, Spicer beat Reay. Lewis lost to Sevan Brown, Barrett beat Fahey, M’Kinney beat Morkane, Helmore lost to Guthrie, Jones lost to Will. Templeton won by 11 games to 8. Russley Club. Saturday’s competition at Russley was a four-ball bogey, which was played under good weather conditions, and the course was in splendid order. A large number of players competed, the best scores being:— W. AI. Ross and R. W. Hope, 5 up. L. E. Robinson and G. A. Connal, 3 up. F. C. Wooler and R. "V. White, 3 up. A. C. Fraser and L. F. Tisdall, 3 up. A. W. Smithson and F. D. Jones, 2 up. A. P. O'Callaghan and J. E. Hamilton, pfwratt and G. T. Alley, 2 up. D. D. Bailey and H. O. Hewlett, 2 up. A. E. Ackroyd and H. P. V. Brown, 2 up. H. F. Hanna and R. L. Woods, 2 up. R. B. Dagger and C. E. Evans, 1 up. J. R. Stevenson and E. F. L. Hill, 1 up. J. P. Gilmour and Iv. B. Bain, 1 up. H. L. Blamires and C. Eaton, 1 up. R. B. Smythe and F. W. Hobbs, square. R. L. Ronaldson and E. Spitz, square. R. A. Bagshaw and A. Duncan, square. W. W. Gudgeon and G. W. C. Smithson, square. O. H. Burns and N. D. Bowman, 1 down. G. K. Al’Allum and J. R. Crawshaw, 1 down. H. A. Penn and J. V. Glasson, 1 down. J. S. Aliddleton and P. Wynn-Wil-liams, 2 down. J. Earl and P. H. T. Williams, 2 F. O. Hartley and G. P. Irving, 2 down. I*7. C. Tipping and A. C. Bretherton, Akaroa v. Richmond Hill. An interclub match played at Richmond Hill on Saturday afternoon resulted in a win for the home side by 15i

to 101. The results were (Richmond Hill names first):— Singles. R. H. T. Hamilton 1, L. Narbey 0. C. A. Rattray 0, J. M’Kay 1. R, D M. Bassett 0. Dr J. W. Waddell 1. H. J. Gosset 1, W. E. M. Jacobson 0 R. E. Hastle 1, F. R. E. Davis 0. L. J. Moorhouse 0, R. Bruce 1. •T. E. Brodie 0. W. Af. M’Clure 1. F. L. Brandt 1, W. Bulman 0. J. D. Edmonds 1, C. Glynan 0. E. T. Salvesen 1, J. C. M’Caw 0. F. J. Penders 1, F. Brocherie 0. W. H. Banks 0, W. Ramsay 1. Airs V. E. Hamilton 1, Aliss B. Jacobson 0. Alias E. Penders 0, Miss M. Jacobson J. Mrs F. L. Brandt 1, Mrs H. Oliver 0. Airs L. F. Regnault 1, Miss. E. Jacobson 0. Mrs H. T. Widdowson 1, Alias C. Lewthwaite 4. Aliss J. Dean 1, Mrs F. G. Armstrong 0. Mrs H. L. Evans 1, Miss K. Wilson 0. Alias K. A. Brooke 1, Airs M’Kendry 0. Four-ball. Hamilton and Rattray 1, Narbey and M’Kay 0. Bassett and Gosaet 0, Waddell and Jacobson 1. Hastie and Aloorhouse 1, Davies and Bruce 0. Brodie and Brandt 0. M’Clure and BulEdmonds and Salvesen 0, Glynan and M’Caw 1. Penders and Banks 0, Brocherie and Ramsay 1. Totals—Richmond Hill 15J, Akaroa 104. Lyttelton Club. Medal matches were played at Chart Cris Bay yesterday. Results were:—

The women’s senior medal was won by Miss E. Ayers 94—14—83. Miss M. Sowden 94—12—82 being runner-up. The junior medal was won by Miss H. Sowdep 106—22—84, Miss D. Bowling 109— 24—85 being runner-up. Rawhiti Club. Following were the results of stroke handicaps played at the Rawhiti links yesterday:—

r. v. jiuusKiiifiun .... no z i <i Tiie following competitors qualified for the Stevenson Challenge Cup, played yesterday:—D. A. Clark, J. Hastings, E. Merchant, J. E. Gudgeon, L. C. Matson, H. G. G. Lyttle, J. H. Shaw, W. Queree, H. Throp, W. A. S. Fowler, C. Alullan, B. Coburn, R. Fa 1 loon, A. T. F. Stokes. The following competitors will play off for the last two places on Saturday, July 8, at 2.30 p.m.:—A. L. Craven, J. T. Jack, D. A. Tait, AI. Taylor and C. A. Cooper. The ladies’ mid-week match was won by Airs H. AI. Sparrow. Ashburton Club. (Spiecial to the " Star”) ASHBURTON. July 2. Senior members of the Ashburton Golf Club played for the Bermaline Cup and junior members played for the Barnett Vase on the Ashburton golf links on Saturday. The Bermaline Cup was won by W. Hedges with a net score of 68 and L. J. Watt and W. H. Amo* with a net score of 67 each tied for the Barnett Vase. The best cards handed in were:—

Why Cotton is not Popular. (Special to the ** Star”) LONDON. May 25. For two years in succession Henry Cotton has won the big professional golf tournament at Southport, and he came over specially from Belgium, where he is now stationed with the Waterloo Club, to try to capture the first prize of £350 for the third time. He made a remarkably fine effort, too, being beaten by'-only one stroke by W. H. Davies, the Ryder Cup player. Cotton was left with a three-yard putt on the last green to equal Davies’s aggregate for the four rounds, but he did not hole it. When the ball was seen to miss the hole, a section of the big crowd cheered. If was extraordinary behaviour, and it was properly condemned, but Davies is a Lancashire man, and I think the cheers simply expressed the satisfaction of the spectators that a local man had won. It Is true, however, that Cotton is not very popular. For two or three years he has taken up a position agin* the government, which is composed of his fellow-professionals. It will be remembered that he refused to go to America two years ago unless clauses in the contract, which were accepted by other members of the team, were altered in his case. He has also refused to take part in the international match between England and Scotland, which is held on the eve of the championship. Then he cut himself adrift from English golf at the beginning of this year, and lie is not eligible to take part in the Ryder Cup match with America.

Gross Hep. Net D. B. I,. Bowker 77 12 65 K. A. Taylor 96 22 74 W. Russell 91 1* J. Greenslade ........ 97 IS 79 S. M’Causland 100 20 80 A. Henry 103 22 81

C. PlUnmer Gross Hep. Net 16 74 T. Bowling 14 t:. 16 T. It. Wallace . - . 25

Seniors. MORNING ROUND. Gross. Hep. Net. L. C. Matson 79 16 63 J. E. Gudgeon 79 15 64 H. Throp 76 10 66 A. L. Craven SI 15 66 A. E. G. Lyttle 80 13 67 D. A. Tait 82 15 67 J. Hastings 82 15 6 7 C. A. Cooper 79 11 68 R. Newburgh • 80 12 68 W. A. Fowler 79 11 68 B. A. Miles 83 15 6S J. Lovell 84 16 68 B. T. Coburn 78 9 69 AFTERNOON ROUND. Gross. Hep. Net. C. Multan 79 16 63 A. Anderson SO 15 65 J. Hastings 80 15 65 H. Taylor 82 16 66 R. B. Jackson 73 6 67 W. A. Fowler 78 11 67 A. E. G. Lyttle ....... 80 13 67 M. Taylor 82 15 67 Juniors. MORNING ROUND. Gross. Hep. Net. W. Queree 80 17 63 D. A. Clark 87 24 63 E. Marchant 89 24 65 J. T. Jack 90 24 6 6 R. C. Matthews 92 24 68 R. F. Alloon 89 20 69 J. Rogers 91 21 70 A. Stokes 89 18 71 W. Butler 89 18 71 L. Bowden 91 20 71 J. H. Shaw 95 24 71 AFTERNOON ROUND. Gross. Hep. Net. J. H. Shaw 88 24 64 A. Stokes 84 18 66 S. H. Diehl 87 20 67 H. M. Minson * 87 20 67 A. J. Manning 91 24 67 T. Matson 88 20 68 E. Marchant 91 23 68 R. Falloon 88 20 68 L. Bowden 89 20 69 D. A. .Clark 90 21 69 F. V. llodgkinson .... 95 24 71

BERMALINE CUP. Gross Hep Net W. Hedges 74 6 68 A. T. Smith 74 2 72 W. P. Anderson 77 5 72 E. A. Cockroft 79 7 72 C. J. Bonnlngton 81 9 72 V. W. Russell 82 9 73 R. H. Clark 87 14 73 BARNETT VASE. Gross Hep Net L. J. Watt 89 22 67 W. H. Amos 94 27 67 T. W. R. Gudsell ..... 98 28 70 J. W. Keig 92 21 71 A. Lane 95 24 71 A. W. Clulee 91 19 72 N. F. Pattle 94 20 74