GOLF Good Scores In Bowl Practices

Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 5

GOLF Good Scores In Bowl Practices

Ihe Press' Special Service

NAPIER. May 17. S. G. Jones's score of 64 and J. D. Durey’s 67 yesterday are among the subjects of golf talk at Napier. The three-day Freyberg Rose Bowl tournament will begin tomorrow morning. The Napier club, which is host for the meeting on its Waiohiki course, has stretched its links to the limit of 6436 yards. About 30 voluntary workers have altered the club bouse. Caddies have been appointed. each team has its own liaison officer and almost every problem that can happen at a golf tournament has been provided against. Some rain has made a number of the holes unexpectedly heavy and during some of the practice rounds competitors, according to their owp accounts, have been flrequivalent -ofc loaded projectiles at the greens. A brilhantly fine *»y yesterday turned thoughts against allowing cleaning and placing of balls through the green and for the time being the rules of golf will be adhered to. Variation of Rules The tournament will begin with a variation of the rules as laid down by the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews which say the ball is out of bounds if it lies against a boundary post. Because a number of the out-of-bounds fences at Waiohiki are post and battens the tournament committee and the managers of the competing teams agreed at a conference that a local rule should apply for the tournament. In terms of the rule a ball win be out of bounds only if it lies under or bevond the boundary wire. One other local rule of some importance in the heavy conditions of some holes has also been introduced. This provides that embedded balls may be lifted on any part of the’ course.

At the conference someone raised the question: “What happens if a ball is only partly embedded?” Mr Hugh Henderson, who combines the positions of headmaster of Napier Boys' High School, captain of the Napier Golf Club, and president of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, said: “No legislation can provide for the honesty of a golfer."

A number of the teams, led by Auckland which, with Wellington, is the co-holder of the Rose Bowl, have been in action since Sunday, and all of the players new to Napier have been playing against the practice score of 64. later supplemented by a 65 returned by Jones, the former amateur champion, and of recent years the number one New Zealand amateur. The achievement was impressive. but Jones, in one of his practice rounds, has also shot a 75, so that he, too. is human. Durry. who will be number two for Wellington, yesterday had a 67. and R. R. Newdick.

the present New Zealand champion, has played three rounds under scratch 71 each time without the least difficulty. W. J. Godfrey, Newdick’s fellow Aucklander, had a 70 yesterday. N. F. Dowden, another of the strong Auckland team, performed even more meritoriously by getting off the plane yesterday morning and scoring a 73 at Waiohiki at his first sight of it. The strong teams of the competition may be Auckland, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay and Canterbury. and there may be a gallery of at least 2000 when Newdick and Jones meet on Saturday. R. C. Murray, of Canterbury. has been playing about scratch, and one of the points of interest of the tournament lies in whether Murray. I. J. Woodbury, of Wellington, or Durry, is likely to go into favouritism for the fourth place in the New. Zealand teim to visit Australia later in the year.

The card of the Rose Bowl course is:—

Out.—l. 325 yards (par 41: 2. 31'4 (41: 3. 427 <4l: 4, 210 (3) 5, 390 (4): 6, 387 (4): 7, 151 (3); 8. 520 (5); 9. 458 (5): total outward yardage 3191, par 36. In.—lo, 345 <4); 11, 165 (3); 12. 486 (5); 13. 440 (5); 14, 370 <4l; 15. 187 (3); 16, 398 (4) 17, 480 <5): 18. 374 (4); total inward yardage 3245, par 36.

ELLESMERE LADIES TOURNAMENT

Draw for Saturday. May 20:— 8.15 a.m.: Mrs Gardner, Mrs Croy, Miss Heslop. 8.20: Mrs Winchester. Mrs Felcken, Mrs Rich. 8.25: Mrs Brooks, Mrs Beckett, Mrs Townsend. 8.30: Mrs McPherson. Mrs Wright, Mrs Penny. 8.35: Miss McEvedy, Mrs Morten, Mrs D. J. Stewart. 8.40: Miss B. Taylor. Mrs Forreste, Mrs B. G. Henderson. 8.45: Mrs Rousham, Miss M. Mackay. Mrs Shipley. 8.50: Mrs Lilley. Mrs A. Pearce, Mrs P. Stuart. 8.55: Mrs Hill. Mrs S. Pearce, Mrs Hooper.

9 a.m.: Mrs Vaughan, Mrs Johnson. Mrs Gribben. 9.5: Mrs Kavanagh. Mrs H. Heslop. Miss Hall. 9.10: Miss Bradley, Mrs Ludemann, Mrs Davison. 9.15: Mrs Jenkins. Miss Prosser, Miss Bruce. 9.20: Mrs Thom, Mrs Phillips, Miss McGregor. 9.25: Mrs I. Campbell, Mrs Doak, Miss Edgar. 9.30: Miss Grigg. Miss McMillan, Miss Peate. 9.35: Mrs Ward, Mrs Newton. Mrs Lees. 9.40: Mrs Grigg. Miss Boyce, Mrs Gopas. 9.45: Mrs Skilling, Mrs Thompson, Mrs McGavock. 9.50: Mrs Beetham. Miss Ward. Mrs Walpole. 9.55: Mrs Lowery. Mrs Lake. Mrs Howe. 10 a.m.: Mrs M. Campbell. Mrs M. Smith, Mrs M. Woodruffe. 10.5: Mrs Miller, Mrs Wilton. Mrs Grey. —Advt.