GOLF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 28 August 1935, Page 4

GOLF

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From the present stage onward it may be expected that more settled weather will make for better conditions for golf. Improved fairways and greens that prove true should also encourage golfers to produce the best. The Wanganui Golf dub’s championships will be advanced a furtner stage next Saturday when the first round of match play will take place. There will be some intersting tussles before the final stages are reached, and some surprises may be expected. Next month a Wilson Cup challenge match will be played at the Belmont links, a team of twelve from Castle cliff participating. This will be played in conjunction with the intcr-elub match. The second and concluding round of the Castlecliff Golf Club’s Rowe Cup was played at the Corn foot Park links on Saturday in rather boisterous weather. M. G. Fisher, a first season player, proved the winner with the creditable net score of 144. On Saturday next a flag match will be played. The seniors will commence from No. 6 tee and the juniors from No. 1 tee. The senior flag will be white and the junior flag red. The mixed foursome handicap will commence next week-end. This competition has proved very popular in the past and, being match play on handicap, it should prove quite interesting. The draw will be announced on Friday. Mid-week players arc requested to hand in at least two cards per month if they wish to take part in any future competitions. This is to give the match committee a chance to adjust their handicaps. Any player failing to do this may find his handicap reduced by the match committee before he starts in a competition. Alany inquiries have been received regarding the second returned soldiers' tournament which is to be held at the Belmont links on Thursday, September 5. One round of eighteen holes is to be played, but stroke and bogey i scores will be taken with a view to deciding several interesting competition matches. Entries will close on Monday, September 2, with R. D. Smart. P.O. Box 105, Wanganui. The national championship tournament of Australia is being played on the course of the Royal Adelaide Club at Seaton and continues till Friday. Before the men’s tournament is finished the women’s national championship meeting will be under way. It timed to begin at Sandringham, the home of the Royal Melbourne Club, on Monday and will finish on September 7. The visiting British women will, of course, be competitors for the ladies’ open championship. At the close of the British open championship at Muirfield, George Dunean said to Mr Robert Browning, editor of Golfing, that the result was a victory for the men over the machines. “And that,” says Mr Browning in his paper, “sums up the situation pretty well. Alfred Perry and Charlie Whiteomhe, between whom the issue lay in the final round, are both natural smite is of the golf ball; Henry Cotton and Mavdonald Smith, in spite of their machine-like accuracy, faded completely out of the picture on the last day.” Much has been written of the late Mr Justice Avory’s connection with Rye. Actually (says the livening Standard) he played most of his golf at the Woking Club, of which he was a founder-member. Many stories are told of his matches on the course there with his great friend, the late Lord Justice fjerutton. Their golf was slow and deliberate. On one occasion they were driven into by an undergraduate. TNie young man came up to apologise. “I’ni so sorry, sir.” he stammered. *‘l can't think how I did it. It’s the '» “I know,” said Mr Justice Avory gently. “It’s the longest drive j’ou ev<ir hit. They all say that.” It is startling, but true K that the Professional Golfers’ Association weie still £BOO down on the r Rvilcr Cup match expenses early in July. “And if the money is not forthcoming, then the match is ‘off’,’’ says an English writer. “It is to played on the Ridgewood course, New Jersey, on Septemiber 28 and 29, and the estimated cost of the trip is £3OCO. A few months ago the fund was as mucji as £l2OO short, and yesterday Commander B. C. T. Roc, the P.G.A. secretary, admitted that ‘we want all the money we can get, large or small.’ You \wuild think that these Ryder Cup matvhes in the States, with all the ballyhoo thev get, would keep the treasurer up all night counting the takings. But it isn’t so. What is left over after running costs have been met is retained by the Americans. The British team get nothing.” Members of the New Zealand ladles’ golf team which paid a two weeks’ visit to Fiji returned to Auckland by thp Mariposa last week, says ‘.he New Zealand Herald. < The courses in Fiji wore difficult, they said, ii'i-l local knowledge was mo* essential there than in New Zealand. As an instance, fourteen of the greens on Ihe Suva eour«Q were “blind’’ ami visiting players found them most difficult. Distances were also deceptive owing to the different light. Due to heavy rain the New Zealand olavers had no opportuni'tv for practice after their arrival. During their short stav they had five days’ golf. They were beaten by Suva, but scored wins over the Ba and Nasouri Clubs. Th« New Zealand team comprised Mrs W. I’. Endean Mrs ('. T. Green (Auckland), Miss I,’. Thompson (Wellington), Mrs E. Vaughan (Canlerburv), and Mrs A. J. Cassidy (Morri nsvillo). Twenty caddies who are in regular employ men t al Walton Heath are tn recoixo £lOO apiece under Lord Rid•loll’s boniest, to Walton licaih “cm ployec’. ’ ’ Concerning some of the professionals who were, at Muirfield for the. British open championship the Golf Monthly, Edinburgh, has the following paragraph; “The professionals who were in the most fashionable and expensive hotel at North Berwick did things well; double-breasted dinner-jackets and the ultra-fashionable soft dress shirt and collar were worn. One distinguished professional each evening on his dinner-table had an enormous basket of flowers, and hanging from the