GOLF

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume X, Issue 478, 21 September 1899, Page 8

GOLF

Our Napier correspondent, on Monday, wired —The golf tournament commences on Monday Entries for the men’s competitions, which closed on Saturday evening, are as follows : Men’s championships, 23 ; 18 hole handicap, 49 ; driving and approaching, 33; men’s 18 hole foursomes, 32; men’s 18 hole bogey handicap, 46 ; mixed foursomes, 30. Entries for the ladies’ events do not close until to-morrow. Included in the above are three entries from Auckland, four from Gisborne, five from Mohaka, and one each from Timaru and Manawatu. On Saturday the third of the series of matches for the vice-president’s prize was won by Mr Mathias. The ladies held a handicap to wind up the season’s matches, which resulted as follows : Mrs Jardine, 74 gross, 9 handicap, 65 nett; Miss Wood, 81, 7,74; Miss Sutton, 94, 20, 74.