GOLF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 141, 17 June 1931, Page 4

GOLF

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"SEAVIEW.")

Now that golfers have played themselves into settled handicaps the season may be held to have got well under way, and as the majority of the Wan ganui clubs have completed the qualify ing rounds of their championships it may be expected that the process ol elimination now to start will attract much interest. With at least one New Zealander engaged in the amateur singles champion -hip of New South Wales Dominion golfers will keep an eye on the news from over the Tasman. 'J he .Scottish ladies’ championship will be played at Gullnne from June 23 to June 26. The Ryder Cup international match will be played at Scioto, Ohio, on June 26 and 27. Belmont Bits. The inter-club match with. Seafield did not eventuate on Saturday last owing to the fact that the Sealield juniors could not fulfil their portion of the programme. A number of friendly games were played at Belmont, where the fairways and greens were in good order considering the heavy rain. Next Saturday the first round of ‘he dub champioi ;hips will he played. The carious titles promise to oe closely con tested and a go > 1 deal of interest is icing displayed. Castlecliff Chips. When one considers the fact that the weather last Saturday was the reverse of tempting, it was particularly pleas ing to find some fifty players partici pating in the first qualifying round 0.l the Castlccliff championships. The cards returned by players were not bad. though there were some crashes that, occasioned surprise. Cathro’s 77 was not quite up to his usual standard but it was satisfactory enough under the circumstances, and he will do a lot better later on. The rain had not affected the ground so much as was expected, and this furnished evidence that Castlecliff is an ideal all-weather course. The first round of play for the Power Cup will take place next Saturday, and a fortnight afterwards the return match with Seafield will bo played. Seafield Shots. It was unfortunate that the Sealield juniors were unable to play their portion of the interclub match on Saturday, but under the conditions that pre vailed there would not have been much enjoyment in the afternoon’s sport. Perhaps it will bo found possible to work the match in later in the season. Scafield expects every member to do his or her duty next Saturday, when the annual match between the ladies and the men will take place. It should be an interesting encounter. Next week-end a party of Patca players will pay a visit to Seafield for the purpose of playing a match. These intcrclub visits have much to commend them. One player at Seafield the other day put his shoulders into a shot to such purpose that he found himself with his shoulders on the ground! This sort of thing tends to put other players off their game, for to see a pair of legs waving in the air is disconcerting! Golf Brevities. Henry Cotton, England’s leading golf professional, is said to possess both the looks and the temperament of a cinema actor. But 'or his nervy days he would be a Harry Vardon. America introduced the rubber-cored golf ball and the steel-shafted club. England has adopted these reforms and, in spite of a good deal of present-day opposition, the probability is that the Royal and Ancient authorities will also eventually legalise the larger and lighter ball. One of the most entertaining of the season’s fixtures staged by the Roym Melbourne Golf Club is the annua 1 match in which the professionals op pose a team of leading women golfers. This year’s match proved a triumph for the professionals. Nobody takes a player to task foi considering his shot before playing it. but the man who dawdles through the fairways is a well-known typo of nuis ance. Plenty of time is taken over the ball, whether on fairways or greens, without sauntering idly from shot to shot. When you go to play a match game of golf leave theory in your locker and play naturally. —Seymour Dunn. Ably organised by Jack McDermott, senior caddie at the Victoria Goif Club, and a former soldier, there was played on May 25 the first Victorian caddies championship. Freak golf is comparatively rare, so that the stated intention of a player t<> play from Brisbane to Adelaide will h<‘ closely watched. Some years ago a golfer made a wager he would play through certain of London’s busy thor oughfares, and, whileho duly collected, the stunt was not commercially profit able by reason, of a big offset for dam age to property in the way of broken windows. Black Meets Fawcett. Good luck to H. A. Black on June 20 in his match with C. 11. Fawcett, whom ho meets in the first round of the amateur singles championship of New South Wales at Rose Bay, comments “Chipshot,” in the Evening Post. He was victorious over T. 11. Horton for the Victorian title last year. In a friendly match with E. L. Appcrlcy. played at Manly early in the month. Black won 1 up. but holed a 170-yard second at the last hole to do it. Par for Manly is 74, and both Black ami Agijierley did 75’s. Black found him self consistently outdriven by from .1" to 30 yards, but was saved by good chips and run-ups, Manly favouring the latter approach. It was Appcrlcy, it will bo remembered, who beat. Sloan Morpeth, Sand 7, in the Kirk-W’indeyer Cup the year it was played in Mel bourne, and he is generally given first choice as the probable winner of the Slates event this year. It is unfor tunale that S. A. Keane and W. IL iNd.ison, as well as Black mid Fawcett meet in the first round, and two of the four, all likely men, vill have to mere Iv look on after the first, day, another argument for the seeded 'haw. Bind; and Withyeombe played G. A. 'l’hontp son and S. A. Keane, the holders, in the foursomes championship over 36 holes, stroke play, on Saturday.