GOLF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 67, 21 March 1935, Page 8

GOLF

SEAFIELD CLUB

OPENING OF SEASON PREPARATIONS FOR SATURDAY

(By

“Seaview”)

The golf ball will be set rolling in earnest for the winter season at Seafield on Saturday, when the opening of the 1935 season will be celebrated. As the present year is to be marked by jubilee celebrations on the occasion of the 25th. anniversary of King George’s accession to the throne, jubilation at Seafield to mark the arrival of Colonel Bogey should be in order. It is understood that further jubilation will mark the feat of one Seafield member who holed in one recently. Many golfers who transferred their allegiance during the summer months to other games will be found returning to the great winter game. It is anticipated that a large number of players will assemble at Sea field on Saturday for the opening of the 1935 season. With suitable climatic conditions promised, devotees of the game should be on excellent terms with themselves. The Seafield links are in great order just now. Better greens, better fairways and better tee'e should make for improved conditions generally. For the past two months the links have undergone a thorough preparation Fairways have been cut and greens have been top-dressed, while that bugbear of so many golfers, the rough, has been well cleared up. On Saturday next it is confidently expected that members will find the course in as good order as obtained at the last October tournament, which is saying a lot. If players should lose a ball in the small amount of rough that exists, they must blame their inferior driving and faulty iron play—or nervous tension, due to the presence of the fair sex. Saturday’s competitions at Seafield will consist of mixed foursomes, for which players are requested to .select their own partners and opponents. Players should not blame the committee, the president, or captain if they get left at the golf house. Marches can be commence 1 at the first, third and sixth tees, and will con sist of twelve holes. At the conclusion afternoon tea may be partaken of at the club house. Full instructions governing the competitions will be posted at the links. Visitors are cordially invited. Members and visitors are notified that the service bus will leave the Post Office for the links at 1.15 p.m. sharp. The transport charge is an extremely moderate one, and should be readily availed of. Road to Success. —Don’t run away with the idea that the road to success in golf is strewn with roses. It isn’t; the path is frequently strewn with bunkers. Progress in golf is in life, if one wants success, demands constant practice, ability, conscientiousness, concentration, confidence in yourself. But there’s another possession you must have, and that’s good health. Fitness is essential to success in golf. It practically outweighs everything else in importance. No golfer can do himself justice if he isn’t feeling right up to ‘concert pitch. A cricket team may do well under a quiet leader, but what a golf team needs is a driver. The talkative player’s amateur standing is frequently questioned on the ground that he is a professional nuisance. ♦ • • • The world Alexander conquered was not laid out in golf courses. * » * • All a mug needs to get a ball well up into the air is a strong head wind. We ’ve journeyed round the world a bit, But that delightful green, Where all putts do roll straight and true, Is one we’ve never seen. A poorhouse is an institution established for those who let the other fellow make the handicap. The duffer who uses a new ball on all water hazards eventually discovers that golf doesn’t cost any more than a new motor-car. Whence Golf Came.—lt has been stated that golf came out of Holland, got acclimatised in Scotland, migrated to England, and from there spread to the ends of the earth. But whence it •came and how it arrived, matters little. Some years ago in this connection, a writer of note and a golfing enthusiast expressed himself in classical language thusly:— ‘Golf is here, and as the amenities of summer dissolve with the declining sun of autumn, men doomed to golfing mediocrity gird up their loins, gather up their clubs and sally forth to decimate the green sward; to lose good golf balls; to make excellent shots to remember and execrable ones to forget; to boast of scores when good and to tear up score cards when bad; to envy the low handicap men and to pity the highly handicapped; to •curse at bogey and yet withal to rejoice at, the health that the game bestows upon its devotees. Golfers! The summer is gone: the greens are cut; the fairways are trim; the caddies are waiting. What more could mortal desire. Therefore don your golfing armour and go forth to battle. Hole-in-one.—Once again the ‘hole-in-one’ club has had the ranks of its membership augmented. The victim of this mighty deed was Mr R. Heinold, of the Seafield Club, who performed the feat at the “Pivot,” 157 yards, by holing his tee shot last weekend, Mr Heinold will thus have his name duly enrolled on the scroll of fame. and the unique occasion will doubtless be celebrated by club members in the time-honoured custom midst a din of wild cheering and a loud gurgling of aqua pura.