GOLF.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 21, 18 November 1908, Page 12

GOLF.

Scoring in Inter-club Matches The attention of clubs belonging to the Ladies’ Golf Union is drawn to the L.G.U. method of scoring in inter-club matches. One point is counted for each nine holes, and two points for the match. Thus there is a total of 4 points if' the winner has won both “out” and “home,” 3J if the winner has won either “out” or “home’’ and squared the other half (the opponent scoring I), and 3 if the winner loses either the “out” or “home” halves (the opponent scoring 1 for the half won). By this method of scoring the game is played to the 18th hole with interest to both sides. Its effect is much the same as the plan of playing out the byes when the match has been won with more than 3 holes to spare. But since a bye is not played unless the match is won on or "before the 14th green (as it reckons as a quarter of a game ), the L.G.U. method seems an improvement, as it carries on the interest to the 18th hole in all matches. The Ladies’ Golf Union does not insist on associated clubs scoring their inter-club matches in this manner, but any clubs who are anxious to try anything else than the old way of counting a match as won, lost, or halved, irrespective of the margin by which it is decided, should give the matter their consideration. The Yorkshire Ladies’ County Golf meeting, held at Ogden in September, gives a splendid record of accurate handicapping. and an irrefutable argument in favour of the L.G.U. system. In the Challenge Bowl Qualifying Round amt the L.G.U. Coronation Medal, no less than four players tied for first place, three for second, two for third, three for fourth, and there was only a difference of seven strokes among the first sixteen competitors, whose handicans from scratch to 24.