GOLF NOTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 4

GOLF NOTES

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Play in the first inter club match of the season took place on Saturday under very bad weather conditions. So bad was the weather that many players preferred not to brave the elements, and those who did go out could not truthfully say that they enjoyed themselves. The inter-club match was between Wanganui and Seafield, the seniors playing at Belmont and the juniors at Seafield. Five of the Seafield players won at Belmont and one game was halved, Wanganui winning the other three played. Thirteen games were played at Seafield, Wanganui winning six and Seaficld four, the other three being halved. Thus the clubs came out square on the aggregate. Under the atrocious weather conditions the result was as it should be. The final of the Wanganui Gulf Club’s 1935 cuampiouslhip was played at Belmont over the week-end. Play to-ok place over 3b holes and the una.j ists were B. Haworth and J. Goss. Tins game should have been played lost October but circumstances did not permit, The Belmont course is in iirstclass order, witii the fairway# vnry good but tne greens were not at their best after Saturday’s heavy rain. The golf in this match was of a high standard. Goss was playing at tht top of his form and completed the first round in 71, winning the championslbip 9 up and 8. They wcie all square at the turn in the morning, both uut in 39. but Haworth was missing his putts uu the homeward jourirey and Guss, pitying sound golf, went in to lunch o up, having come in in 37. The first five holes in the afternoon’s play saw both players producing line golf, with dificrence in the score, the Jigures being 4,4, 4,4, 3. Goss registered fours ai, the next two, becoming 7 up. The eight was halved in fours and Goss carded another 4 at the ninth, where Hawurtii drove out of bounds, Goss xvas now 6 up, with nine to play, ana bad covered the outward journey against the wind in two under par. The next hole, the tenth of the round ana the 28th of the match, found Goss holing in 3to win, 9up and 8. They played out the round and Goss completed the course in 71, two under the standard scratch score. Goss has won the championship on several occasions, uis lirst win being registered in 1911. It’s not the biggest chap who gees the best results, judging by the success of the sft. 2in. E. D. Hamilton, who on 'Saturday won the Scottish golf championship. The smallest competitor in senior golf, Hamilton inflicted a sensational defeat on Jock McLean and then went on to beat Robert Neill in the final, 1 up. C. Weller, West Coast title-holder, will be as hard tu beat as ever. A. Bourgeois, Wanganui Club ; will be competing again. A. Collings (Y.M.C.A.), also- will be an active competitor. G. Bills (Y.M.C.A.), will not be running this season. F. Hill (Marton) has commenced with the Marton Club, and D. Smith (Marion) has not been seen on the course yet, but is expected to be running again very soon. C. Broad (New Plymouth) will not be competing this season. Members who are looked upon with distinct promise arc: G. Joihnston, A. Bevege and T. Kiddle (Wanganui Club), G. Bromley and S. Christopher (Marton Club), and D. Wadey (Y.M.C.A.). The Wanganui Club is commencing its social activities with a birthday dance in McKenzie’s Hall, on Thursday week, May 14. The following is the syllabus of runs arranged by tho Wanganui Harrier Club for the first two months of the 1936 season:— May 9. —Y.M.C.A. official opening. May 16.—Intermediate School baths (graduated pack race). May 23.—Gonville baths (declared handicap). May 30.—Union Boat Club shed (under whistle).

Another sensation was provided in golf in the English amateur championship, for an 18-ycar-okl schoolboy, John Langley, won his way to the final by defeating Cyril Tolley. The latter has won the best part of a score of championships. In the final Langley was beaten by the more experienced Bentley, a former holder of the French and German championships. * • • * Play in the final of the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union foursomes at Miramar on Saturday was hampered by abnormal conditions of sleet, and wind that made play almost impossible, and when Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Wilson were 4 down and two stroke to the bad going to the thirteenth they gave up the game to Mrs. Crombie and Mrs. Turnbull, who thus won the tropny. The performance of the winners in the face of the weather was remarkably good, and they went out in 49, which included a 7. At the first hole, where competitors were greeted by a shower of hail, Mrs. Crombie missed a fairly easy putt for a 6 and laid her opponents a stymie, and a half in 7 resulted. They halved the next in 5, and Mrs. Crombie won the next after Mrs. Wilson badly duffed her third, and sent it into the rough. Mrs. Turnbull was short from the tee at the next, and Mrs. Crombie’s ehip failed to reach the green, so the other pair squared the match with a bogey 3 to 4. At the fifth Mrs. Wilson, who was nervous and uncertain on the tees, sent her shot into the rough, and Mrs. Russell was too strong with her mashie. Mrs. Crombie and Mrs. Turnbull won the hole with a 4. Mrs. Turnbull was well short at the sixth, and Mrs. Russell hit the pin from the tee, winning tho hole with a beautiful 2. Rolli Mrs. Russell apd Mrs. Crombie had good drives from tho tee at the next, but Mrs. Wilson duffed her iron third. Mrs. Crombie was on the green with her third, but Mrs. Turnbull was too strong with her approach putt. Mrs. Russell, however, missed an easy putt for a half. Mrs. Crombie and Mrs. Turnbull lost the next 7 to 6. but drew ahead again by winning the ninth 6 to 7 Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Wilson could no longer stand up to the strain of playing in such conditions, and the other pair won the next three holes. At the thirtenth, when the storm showed no signs of abating, but was rather becoming more intense, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Russell gave up the match. A feat that will make every golfer envious was accomplished iccemiy by J. G. Sherlock, the Aldcburgh gull professional in Suffolk, England. Alter starting at the KJth, he holed in one at the 17th, a difficult short hole with tne hole cut on t'h-e other side of an intervening bunker. The shot was played with a No. 6 iron. Five holos later, at the fourth, he once again holed in one, this time playing a half-shot with a No. 3 iron. “It is an awkward hoie,” said a friend who was playing in the match, “that tempts one to play well away from the pin for safety; it is a kidneyshaped affair with t/he hole usually rather ‘ round the corner.’” “The nearest parallel that I can recall to Sherlock’s feat,” says an English. writer, “is Eric Fiddian’s effort in the final of the 1933 Irish amateur championship against Jack McLean, when he holed his tee shot once in each round.” Lawson Little, who recently forfeited his amateur golf status, is against the stymie. In the San Francisco Examiner he says: “I personally am against the stymie because it throws an outside influence into the match —that is, 1 believe that if a player makes a good shot, he should be given the opportunity of following it up and collecting his reward. I don’t believe that he should be made to suffer for something over which he has no control. “Furthermore, I believe that people who do not play championship golf are labouring under the illusion that goud players can lay stymies at will. This is a great misconception —the hole is much larger, than the area upon which a ball must be stopped in order to lay a stymie. If any player is that accurate, he would be the greatest putter the world has ever known.”