GOLF.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 308, 18 June 1896, Page 3

GOLF.

There was no club match at Greenlane on Saturday, but several interesting private matches were arranged. A very strong foursome got together in Messrs Colbeck and Kyd against Messrs O’Rorke and Gillies. The former pair, chiefly owing to bad play on the champion’s part, got a lead of 4 up on the first five holes, and this lead their opponents only managed to reduce to 2 up and 1 to play at the seventeenth hole. The ladies are taking up golf strongly, and have got a very suitable piece of ground adjoining Major George’s residence. It has been decided that the Open Championship of Great Britain shall be played on the links of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield. The championship was once before played at Muirfield in 1892, when Mr Hilton, an amateur, won the Open Championship. Mr Hilton and Mr Ball are the only amateurs who have yet won the Open Championship. The Muirfield links have been much improved and lengthened. The total round of eighteen holes is now 2 miles 1,690 yards long. The club house has been repaired at a cost of £1,600, and the putting-greens are described as the most perfect in Scotland.