LADIES' GOLF

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1321, 19 August 1915, Page 33

LADIES' GOLF

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NEW ZEALAND LADIES’ GOLF UNION.

IfOTXCE TO COBBSSFONDEirrS.

The secretaries and correspondents of Golf Clubs are advised to forward accounts of matches, personal notes, etc., not later in future than Tuesday of each week. Red Cross Competitions. 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. Amount previously acknowledged, £145 12s. 6d.; Hokitika, 175.; Richmond Hill, 125.; Wellington, £3; Hamilton, 145.; Paeroa, 125.; Ashburton, £1; New Brighton, £1; Greytown, Ils.; Wanganui. £2; Waiwetu, £1; Inglewood, 155.; Napier, £1 155.; Karori, 165.; Manawatu, £1 95.; total, £l6l 13s. 6d. Auckland. The members of the Auckland Ladies’ Club played the final for the club championship on August 10th in ideal golfing weather conditions. The course was in .good playing order. It is many years since the championship was confined to club members, but owing to the war it was not considered advisable to hold an open championship tournament this year. The contestants were Miss Gwen Gorrie and Miss Muriel Alison. The first hole was brilliantly won by Miss Alison in four, and the crowd which was following anticipated that the match would be keenly contested. Such, however, proved not to be the case, for Miss Alison did not win another hole till the seventh, where the game stood 2 up in Miss Gorrie’s favour. The eighth hole was won by Miss Gorrie in four, and the ninth in a wellplayed five, the outward round having taken her 46. Miss Gorrie was 4 up at the turn. The tenth hole was halved in four, and the eleventh went to Miss Gorrie with a nerfect four — 5 up. The twelfth was halved in five, and the thirteenth saw the end of the game, for Miss Alison sliced her drive and had to lift from a tree-guard, and was not on the green until she had played four. Miss Gorrie got away a fine drive, and reached the green with a nice mashie shot, and, taking two putts, won the hole and the match—6up and sto play. This was the fifth time Miss Gorrie had won the championship at Middlemore. The winner played good, steady golf, and. though she missed several chances, made no bad mistake.

The junior championship was also decided on the same date, the finalists being Mrs. A. A. Martin and Miss Alison Henderson. The game was keenly contested, and was only won on the eighteenth green by Mrs. Martin. Mrs. Hain has presented a trophy for a four-ball match to be played on

August 24. The entrance fees will go to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. The members of the Maungakiekie Golf Club played a Red Cross match on August 11th. The best cards were: Mrs. Fenton, • 113 —37 —76; Miss I. ’Walker, 107 —30—77; Miss Tresidder, 105 —24 —81; Miss Moginie, 104 —21 — 83; Miss Steele, 110—25—85. The proceeds from the match, £1 145., will be forwarded to the hon. secretary of the L.G.U. for the Red Cross War Fund. A bogey competition has been arranged to take place this week, proceeds in aid of the poor of Auckland. Hamilton. Quite a number of the members spent the day on the links on August sth, and had an enjoyable time, as the links are in splendid condition. Some of the fairways are like putting

greens. Mrs. Gillies won Mrs. MacDiarmid’s trophy for the handicap round. The first round of the championship was played on August 7th, the first-named players winning their matches: Miss Cussen played Mrs. Hume, 2 up; Mrs. Stewart played Miss Stevens, 2 up; Miss Wilkinson played Miss Furze, 5 up; Mrs. Douglas played Miss Holden, 1 up. On the previous day the seniors and juniors played a flag competition for trophies presented by Mrs. W. H. Humei After a good round Miss Holden carried her flag to the eighteenth green and won the senior trophy. Miss H. Chitty played to the sixteenth and was the winning junior player. * * * * Hawera. The handicap championship instituted this year in the Hawera Club will create a good deal of interest, A

qualifying medal round is to be played and the best eight will play off under ordinary handicap match conditions. Manawatu. The Gun Club Trophy competition resulted in a win for Mrs. Innes. The competition was played by match play under handicap, and was open to all members. In the semi-final Mrs. Fitzherbert (20) beat Miss Abraham (9), and Mrs. Innes (9) beat Mrs. P. Sim (17). In the, final Mrs. Innes (9) beat Mrs. Fitzherbert (20), thus gaining the honour of having her name inscribed first on the new challenge trophy. Lady golfing. visitors to Palmerston are Mrs. Hope Lewis and Mrs. and Miss K. Holmes, Auckland; Mrs. Williams, Masterton, and Miss Bewley, New Plymouth. They have all come to see something of relatives in the camps in the vicinity. • • • » Another famous golfer, H. D. Gillies, has joined the staff of the Belgian Field Hospital (at Hoogstadt, near Furnes, in Belgium). His numerous performances of merit are too well known to be particularised. * ♦ * ♦ The widely-heralded Open Amateur Tournament at the Panama Exposition found a couple of hundred entries, with a field of quality dwindled down to an even dozen at most. There were 56 strokes difference between the leading score of 143 made by Mr. “Chick” Evans and the last qualifier of the 64, showing the great disparagement. The final, saw a newcomer in the person of Harry Davis, a six-foot-three golfer, combating against Schmidt. The latter was five up at one stage of the game, but lost on the home green. Davis did the last 18 in 71, and the last nine in 33. He is the best of the new golfers America has produced in the last 12 months, and bids fair to take high national rank. The prize was a cup, valued at 1500 dollars. » • » Miss Vera Ramsay, the Leatherhead and Surrey County player, has been showing the natives in the U.S.A, that Miss Ravenscroft, Miss Dodd, and Miss Harrison are by no means the only diamonds in the pack. She has just won the Boston “Women’s” Championship at the Boston County Club, and won it in rather handsome fashion. In the final she beat Miss Margaret Curtis, the holder of the Boston title and three times winner of the American Ladies’ Championship by the huge margin of 7 up and 6. It is interesting to know that Miss Ramsay was one of the passengers in the Lusitania on her last voyage but one.