ON THE GOLF LINKS

Chronicle (Levin), 21 July 1949, Page 9

ON THE GOLF LINKS

Contestants In Foursomes Narrowed Down Last Saturday saw the second round of the foursome handicap contested by members of the Levin Golf C'ub. Those pairs remaining in the competition are as follows:— Richards an*d A. Clarke, who p^y Gledhill and Antcliff; Sams and. J. Tomlinson, who play W. C'ark an'd Coutie; Smith and Wade, who play D. Tomhnson and Landers; Atkins and King, who play Hosie and Baumber. The flight position is still obscure as all the games were not played. Regarding the new ball which one highly respected membet advertised for as having been placed in the wrong bag, all members may now stop checking their slock, The property has been found — in his own bag! Well, we ask you! Championship Entries. Entries are now open for the 1949 club championships. The grading will be as for last year, i.e., senior up to 12 inc'usive, intermediate 13 to 18 inclusive and junior 19 to 24 inclusive. The respective lists are on the nofcice board, so these members with championship aspirations p'ease enter their names this weekend. Next Sunday we pay our annual visit to Buckley. The captain will be pleased to hear from those avai able for selection for this ever popular fixture. This week's fixture is to be a medal round. We have no rea'l information from the Gestapo, parden, handicappers, but we understand that it is for the purpose of ength&ning the handicaps before the championships begin. Jus„ a little item "which may cheer up some of the long handicap players. The oldest member duffed his tee shot on the 18th on Saturn day. Now we have seen everything! That Perfect Shot. For the benefit of those who do not.rea'd Go.'f Illuslrated, a very interesting par appears in the current issue. At the King's Birthday weekend the perfect shot was played no less than six times, twice at Balmacewen — bad luck for the second lucky 4player — and once each at Middlemore, Titirangi, Poverty Bay and Cambridge.

This shot, which every player hopes to make but very often wishes he had not, has not been played in Levin since 1943, when W. Btiil was the lucky (?) player. If only 50 rounds of golf were played weekly (a very conservative estimate) in each season, this means that we have had at least 36,000 attemp s to hole out from the tee. Must be harder than it looks. On the other hand, Joe Kirkwood was asked by a non-golfing newsreel man to play a hole-in-one. With a grin he agreed, but to everyone's surprise, including his own, he did so with the fourth ball and a movie record of the shot was ebtained from club face to cup. Recently a tournament player in England holed in one and lost the hoie. Si ly, we know, but true. He was not aware that he had done so,„ and after spending the alJowabi& time looking for his ball, gave up the hole. His opponent ran his putt down for two and found both oalls in the cup.