GOLF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 205, 31 August 1932, Page 4

GOLF

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The weather last Saturday and ovut the week-end was most unpleasant for golfers, though at times the sun shone forth with sufficient strength to encourage those ardent golfers who fared forth on the links. Considering me conditions, some really good play vas in evidence. The attendance at the Belmunt links on Saturday was not so large as usual owing to the bed weather. Under the conditions B. M, Bilk’s 69 over >he week-end was an excellent result. His short game was really good and he was putting well, showing much improvement in this department. A fourroot putt at the tenth slipped round the hole ami caused him to take three at this short hole, but he had already made, up lor that with a 3 at the first jand a 3at the fourth. At Land’s End ; Bilk pushed his tee shot into the rouglt | ami tailed to got on with his second, jinking 5 and making the outward jour- • ney 35. He came home in 34, with 1 the only 5 nt Bunker's Hill. His card read as follows: Out: 3 5 4 3 3 I 4 4 5—35. In: 34341354 4—34. In the senior championship Bilk has io play I . Hutchison, ami the tussle between the pair should be well worth seeing, for Hutchison is h steady player whose experience iuake.9 him a formidable rival even for one with Kirk-Windeyer Cup credentials. At Belmont, next Saturday the juniors will play their part in th« intei-<-lub match with Castlecliff, the seniors I meeting at Castlecliff. An interdub | match with Manawatu has to be i played the following week. I ' f * • ♦ ' Ihe first round of the championships at tho Castlecliff links on Saturday produced little in the way of surprises, the weather conditions not allowing much in the shape of pyrotechnics. The system of starting adopted at ’ astlecliff, players being allowed to start at one of four different point*, is proving very satisfactory and appears certain to be retained in futurp. There is a big saving in time am] play, ers are assured of completing their rounds in a good light. The return interclub match with the Wanganui Club will be played next. Saturday, It will be remembered that I in the first match Castlecliff lost the Nathan Cup to the Belmont players, ami it will be interesting to soe the Wanganui seniors fare on the Cns tiecliff links this week. Though h ; commenced playing golf only last season L. King has shown stoadv improvement .and is playing well to his handicap, which has been brought down to 18. King appeals *1 one of the club's best players in the making. Reports from Taranaki indicate that B. AL Silk will have to look to bin laurels in the not distant future. It is stated that a young New Plymouth golfer, aged nine, went round the Waiwakaiho links like a professional a week ago, notching a card of 111. He first took up the game at the age eight, so he must be a prodigy indeed. Seafield players will have the first round of the White Horae Cup to decide next Saturday, this being three rounds of medal play on handicap. The visit to Seafield on the part of the Rangitikei Club will take place next week end, and it is anticipated that a fairly large contingent from Bulls will be on hand fur this return trip. Although the weather was not on its best behaviour those Fea field players I who journeyed to Waverley thoroughly enjoyed the fine hospitality which is always a feature of the interclub match with AVaverley. Seafield proved victors on the day. winning six games and losing two, one game being halved. A review of tho club competitions ami championships discloses the fart that many players have not yet completed the games in the early rounds. After the coming week end the committee may be compelled to have recourse to the hick of the draw in respect of those uncompleted games. AU championship am! competition events must be completed before the end of September. The programme for the Labour D^ v tournament is in the course of preparation. Although a majority of players seem unable to handle an unusually fast green, it is remarkable how a first-class putter can accommodate himself to changed conditions. says the New Zealand Herald. A notable example is E. J. Moss, of the Auckland Club, who has been producing some wonderful scores at Aliddlemore this winter. On fast, bare greens .Moss appears to play his putter down through the ball, thus imparting both firmness and drag to the holing out putt, it being remarked how the ball holds the line.