A BLEAK SATURDAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 25

A BLEAK SATURDAY

STILL MORE CONTESTS

FINGERS' PART IN LENGTH

Winter. sprang, on golfers on Saturday. After the long mild autumn nobody was prepared lor the gleeful howl of the bitter southerly, wh|ch seemed to bring the atmosphere of the Kaikoura peaks .with-it, as it-poured rain, snow,; and , : sleet4pn' Saturday's competitors.: Those -unprepared were soaked. Hands "were so 'cold that clubs co t uldr not be felt, and some strange play was seen in patches. The expression on the. faces .of those wh'b; were playing in fours, when they had holed,\put (md were waiting for others to dbj'the iSanie^ was cheerless in the extreme; it says something for women golfers that the two Mary Alward Cup matches were, played, both on seaside courses,'.v/itK little,;'shelter.

' :.Titahi-visitors h'aii to learn the Whakatikr course, which has several holes where the circumvention of trees'is' essential,; and this may have contributed t° the draw which re-sulted.-t ,Waiwetu has some very good pja^ers jnits^team';- however, and it will'- be interesting to^see the result of -their next meeting on Saturday week at Titahi. -R: G. Holland played very.'.,4ne~«-gojU in .the 7 conditions, and had the best of his game with J. L. Black almost throughout. His margin would have been wider had 'he not missed two very reasonablel putts. Black was not in his usual match-win-ning. vein r and it was strange to see him failing }n his .appr.oach putts and chips, though it must be admitted that it was hard to. gauge the pace of the greens. / :

■ The best card produced to date on Whakatiki was by H. C. Ribbands on Saturday morning. Conditions were then pleasant, .though the course was v.cry .heavy,'l and his 74 was ah excellent performance, r His 77 in the afternoon in'his:ma'tch:with N. Parker'was, in the circumstances, even more meritorious, though teeing up was allowed. " ■■-■■ :-.

If the. Titahi No, 1 was off his game, the Waiwetu No. 2 was even more so., -He: wa§,,; definitely> : bftvh.is^,wQ;ods, and -went astray also1-with 'iron 'sec--;onds,* and though usually a steady pja^er, could do nothing right. He ni'et a good golfer in D. A. Dacre, a -pleasing stylist withy.a.sting in his long shots, and very useful., .with his mashie. '%:''.'■&&'''' ' ~:';^r'