GOLF

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 8

GOLF

(By ’

“Niblick.”)

A Game of Problems. Golf is a game of problems and this was brought home forcibly to J. Smith, a New South Wales player recently. He had a three-foot putt for a bogey. He putted his ball, and it ran to the lip of the tin and hung there. . With intense annoyance he stamped his foot on the green, and the ball rolled into the hole. The question was raised at once, did he incur a penalty ? His partner marked him a bogey 5. Smitn savs the wind was blowing gale force at'the time, and contends it was a bigger factor 'in influencing the ball to move than his stamp on the green. It is quite feasible that the wind would do so, for playing, in the country championship at Kensington, B. D. Denver pitched his tee shot to the fourth green but before he and his partner walked the distance from the tee spectators on the green saw the ball swept by the wind right off the green into a bunker. However, the case of golf’s greatest tragedy occurred in England recently, wiiere an associate in Reigate Heath holed her tee shot at a “blind” hole. The search for the ball was fruitless, and so another was plaved, which she finallv holed in five. She then discovered the first ball in the hole. The heartless rulers of golf decreed that her first shot was in vain, for “when the plaver abandoned the search for the first ball it became a ‘lost ball,’ and the second ball played became the ball in play.” So, So!

Hector Morrison, N.S.W. amateur champion, wrote some facetious comment in a Sydney paper when he returned from the New Zealand championship meeting. Among other things he said: “Miramar (N.Z.) members don t refer to the holes on the course by number, as is done in Australia, Every

hole is named. There’s Potiki, Wakainga, Kaikoura, and tlie rest. One of the New South Wales visitors, who competed in the recent open championship, had just completed his first round of the course, in one of Wellington’s best winds, when a of the club came up to him and said. “Well, and how did you . get .on at loeToe 7” The Australian did his best not to look bewildered and murmured politely, ‘So, so.”

Supreme on the Links. An American writer says that sceptics pt Bobby Jones’s golfing ability are no more. The Atlanta player has proven bevond the shadow of a doubt that he is supreme on the links, and that .he has a long golfing career ahead of him. He has taken the uncertainty out of the sport, proving that a golfer can be just as consistent as the performer, in any other sport, the duffers notwithstanding. When any golfer can go through the season and play par golf, as Jones has, there isn’t much left to the argument that the vagaries, of the game are responsible for the inability to show consistency in scores.

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