GOLF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 4

GOLF

I (By

“SEX VIEW.")

Better weather was experienced by golfers on Saturday and over the weekend, and improved conditions may be looked for now that the winter has arrived in earnest.

The Wanganui Golf Club must be congratulated on its success in retaining the Wilson Cup against Manawatu’s challenge, in spite of the fact that they had to journey to Hokowhitu to defend the trophy. Interest in forthcoming matches for the cup will be keener than ever, especially as the holders may be asked to travel with the trophy.

The excellent nature of the Belmont links was demonstrated on Saturday, when in spite of the practically continuous rain of Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning, some good cards were returned, Silk and Duncan recording 75’s gross, and their net scores being under 70.

A record entry was received for the first qualifying round of the Wanganui Club championships and the record number of 74 cards was returned. This serves to show how keen members are.

Cards are often returned by players not added, undated, unsigned and minus the handicap. A club secretary has stated that it would be quite safe to offer a prize of £5 for the player returning during the season six cards neatly and correctly compiled and without a blemish.

Many players do not know that cards mus. be handed in within a reasonable time after the completion of the round. The R. and A. ruling appears to be that a reasonable time is about five to ten minutes. In a recent match in a New Zealand club a player, after finishing his round, played on for “a few more holes” before handing in his card, which won the competition. A protest, dismissed by the match committee, was upheld when submitted to the R. and A. and the player was disqualified.

Playing in threes at Belmont on Saturday proved an unqualified success. Nearly one hundred players competed. Had they competed in pairs and started at 11.30 a.m., the last players would not have got away until 2.45 p.m., and they would have been unable to finish the round. As it was, one trio got away at 11 a.m., but the rest commenced a few minutes before noon and were all away by a few minutes after 2 p.m. Even then it was just on dusk when the last trio finished.

Due to the sandy nature of the soil, the Castlecliff links were in good order despite the recent heavy rains, for the inter-club match between the Waverley and Castlecliff Golf Clubs at Castlecliff on Saturday. Some hardfought games were played and the decision of a few of these was not made until the 18th green. In conjunction with the inter-club match, a medal round was held, Ellis proving the winner with a net 69. J. Wilson played a steady 78—3 —75. The first qualifying round for the championships will be played on Saturday next. Three rounds are to be played and the best two scores are taken.

Members are requested to take note of the new local rules which are printed on the score cards.

Golf not only relieves the mind with its pleasant competition, but it gives the body the fresh air, the sunlight and exercise it needs after the imprisoned days of indoor labour.

Don’t get anxious about your medal round. Try to turn your medal into a match and play against the par of the course.

• • • ♦ Alex Herd said: “When the mind wanders the ball wanders.” « • • •

Miss Holme said: "Confidence on the green is the most valuable of all; lack of it has been known to keep twelveinch putts out of the hole.”

A lady golfer was about to commence the game. She walked into a shop and stated that her husband had told her that she would need six clubs. After a careful scrutiny of all types and brands she picked up a spoon. “Well,” she said, “this seems to be the best that I have seen; I will take six of them.”

Strangers on golf courses, whether visiting players or merely spectators in big events, frequently have difficulty infinding their way round, or reaching a desired part of the course in the shortest time. Even new members sometimes are in doubt as to the direction of the next hole. Normally, a right-angle from the line through the tecing-off markers gives the line to the next hole, but often there is no indication of where the next tee is. Most clubs would assist visitors and others if a plan of the course were hung on the verandah of the club house. It need .—it be a work of art, in the case of small starting clubs, but it would save a lot of time occasionally to busy secretaries, moreover, when a really big event, like a final, is in progress, the club house is often deserted, and there is nobody to inquire from. The first major success of the British women’s team in the United States occurred when Miss Kathleen Garnham (The Naze) defeated Miss Frances Williams by 5 and 4 in the final of the East Coast Championship at St. Augustine, Florida. The previous title-holder had been Miss Moureen Orcutt, one of America’s leading players. She was defeated in one of the earlier rounds by Miss Frances Williams. Miss Diana Fishwick was also eliminated in the same round by her compatriot, Miss Barbara Pyman. In her new book, “ Golfing Memories and Methods,” Miss Joyce Wcthered makes it quite clear that she has never taken either herself or her golf too seriously. “It is worth a great deal to be able to feel that our own peculiar idiosyncrasies are in reality as laughable as they are serious,” she writes. “What a merry business Jean Borotra would make of a golf championship,” adds Miss Wethered. Walter Hagen alone, of all gofers she knows, possesses Borotra’s temperament.