NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1316, 15 July 1915, Page 37

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

Match reports and news items for insertion in the Golf Page must reach this Office not later than Thursday of each week. Any sums collected through the Red Cross Fund competitions and forwarded to the Secretary of the New Zealand Golf Union, will be duly acknowledged week by week in this column. Auckland. The golf course at One-tree Hill is looking very well and is still very popular. All the Auckland clubs report an access of new members for this season. It is stated that one of the Auckand golf clubs recently decided not to publish the results of their matches, but this is considered to be rather detrimental to the welfare of a club. ♦ * » • Hamilton. The match play tourney commenced on June 12th and was continued for several Saturdays. Miss Furze and Miss Holden played the final on July 3rd, when Miss Furze proved the winner. The following programme for play on Wednesdays has been arranged by Mesdames Douglas and Hume and Mr. Jacobsen: —June 30, July 7 and 14, eclectic (Mrs. Douglas’ trophy); July 21, nursery handicap (flag, Mrs. Humes’ trophy); August 4, one club competition (Miss J. Furze’s trophy); August 11, secretary’s match tournament; August IS and 25,secretary’s nursery handicap; September 1, foursomes (Mrs. Douglas’ trophies); September 8, ladies v. gentlemen (Mrs. Miller’s trophy); September 15, four-ball best ball (Mrs. Hume’s trophy); September 22, putting competition (Miss Furze’s trophy) ; September 29, jumble competition; October 6, captain v. secretary. • * • • Wellington. A Wellington professional says that golf at Trentnam is very dead, but should brighten up in the summer. The military camp authorities have taken over the club house as a hospital, and it now accommodates about 50 men. The ladies have their club room at a private house, as have the gentlemen. The course is a temporary one, with short greens, so the scores are good. Watt (a local professional) recently holed out in 67, out in 35 and home in 32, a good performance. * * » • Westland. There seems to be still a fair amount of enthusiasm for golf on the West Coast. Clements, a Christchurch professional, visited the Greymouth course recently, and states it is in good order, and that there are always a good many people out playing. He says that, personally, he is not playing in very good form. He played three local players the best ball, and they beat him 2 up. Writing of Westport, Clements says there is a great amount of water lying over the course, but players still manage to get out and have a game. There are close on 100 members, and they are very keen. They all look for a cheap ball that floats, as there is one lake on the links 60 yards across.

W. B. Simpson, late Miramar professional, has enlisted, but does not yet know whether he will be accepted.

Wanganui. The members of the Wanganui Ladies’ Golf Club played the Red Cross match for June on the 30th ult. The weather was threatening, and although the entries were good very few competed. The winner was Mrs. Armstrong, 106 —23 —83; Miss H. Anderson, 106 —19 —87. In the Alexander Bowl match the third round resulted: Miss Brettargh defeated Miss H. Anderson, Miss Nixon won from Miss Christie, Mrs. Izard defeated Miss Harper, and Miss Knapp won by default from Mrs. Armstrong. The semifinal has to be played off before July 21st. • 0 a> « New Plymouth. The semi-finals in the Weston Cup resulted as follows: —Miss Brewster (11) defeated Mrs. Walker (40), 5 up and 3; Miss M. Free (28) defeated Mrs. Hutton (25), 4 and 2. * * * * Christchurch. Of the Christchurch clubs, Shirley is falling off in play, probably because a considerable number of the players have enlisted for the front. Hagley is the most flourishing, and is one of the clubs which has suffered least. Apparently, it is losing nothing in popularity, as no fewer than 56 new members have joined this year. There is always a big attendance on the links on match days, and a large amount of the fees received from matches is being devoted to the various funds. A considerable amount of enthusi-

asm prevails concerning the New Brighton links, and, as far as the season has gone, the number of entries in the various matches is still up to the average. Progress is still being made in the forming of the new land, and the committee is hopeful that when the work in hand has been completed a very good 18-hole course will be open to players who look for golf over really good sporting country.

At Richmond Hill the club still retains its popularity as providing a week-end course. The course is in very good order just now, and some most enjoyable games are to be had there. Its height above Sumner lends considerably to its charm, as not only do followers of the little white ball get a day’s outing, but they are induced to try their skill over undulating country.

Concerning the Lyttelton Club, few Christchurch players realise the many attractions which the course provides for enthusiastic golfers. Undoubtedly this club is to be complimented on the progress made during the short time it has been in existence. A wellknown Christchurch golfer was recently invited down there, and partook of the Lyttelton golfers’ hospitality. He spent a most enjoyable day golfing over their links. The course is a most interesting one, and does not call for the expenditure of a great deal of money in construction. The soil lends itself to the making of greens with the least possible amount of labour, and the fairways, with practically no preparation, give players everything which could be desired in the way of a lie through the green. Owing to the generosity of Mr. R. Orton Bradley, the club is in a position to make a full 18-hole course, as there is still plenty of suitable land to be utilised for extension. The club’s policy in holding to the nine-hole course at present, however, is a sound one, until they are finan-

cially strong enough to make the full course of 18 holes.

Kapi Tareha, who has joined the .Maori reinforcements for the front, is a well-known golfer, and has held the Hawke’s Bay amateur championship challenge cup for three years in succession.

Recent advices state that, eight new golf links have been begun in the vicinity of New York. The promoters—amongst whom are many multi-millionaires, including Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan—of the new Lido links, Long Beach, Long Island, have laid out plans which, if carried out, will cost 3,500,000 dol. (£700,000)! It is planned to have a casino, hotel, and bathing pavilion, after the style of the famous Lido, near Venice. The course is now being made by pumping in sand from the adjoining channel. To fill some of th e depressions, it requires deposits of from 9ft. to 15ft. of sand.

The Wellington Golf Club has given up its golf house entirely to the Trlentham authorities for use as a hospital, and, with sixteen bedrooms and other large rooms, will hold a large number of cases. At present there is an epidemic in camp, the cases numbering 450, and still increasing.

The well-known professionals Douglas and Watt have initiated a compe-

tition in the interests of the fund for wounded soldiers. Each has given a complete set of clubs, one to be competed for by ladies, and the other by men. The conditions are one round, medal play, on club handicaps, the lowest nett score to win. Ladies throughout New Zealand will play the match on Wednesday, 23rd inst., and the men on Saturday, 26th. The condition is that each competitor pays Is. entry, and the wounded soldiers’ fund should benefit considerably. Both Douglas and Watt make beautiful clubs, and these specially prepared sets will be very keenly competed for.