GOLF NOTES.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17166, 24 March 1927, Page 7

GOLF NOTES.

In the past ihe contributor of Golf Notes has been grateful to tlie editor for publication of his notes and the time has arrived to renew ! the pleasurable taslc of endeavouring to interest members in a sport which has everything to reeommend it and nothing to condemn it. The re-entry card is to be a short introductory note to encourage and stimulate a continuity of sejrviice and activity on the part of members i — an inspirational injection beneficial to bofh the individual and to the Club as a whole, making, we trust, the Club's activities under the new regime something we shall be very proud of. The gay bunting ofi a couple of years ago at the Cape links has van- J ished and so too have the links. Even the emblems of the past are i forgotten; forgotten even the haun- ' ting melody of "Auld Lang Syne." But there are some things we have taken away, and some things we i have left. Some things real, some things less tangibla often expressed in theory rather than in fact. Oamaru now with its first class links can never be a narrow spirited town, provincial or insular. It can and will reach out proud in its amenities, its citizenship, its broad and liberal pathways to southern Oamaru where friends will meet and reciprocate witb the tribute of human fellowship and understanding and that will be on Ihe links. But we must not be smugly contented over the growth of our prize. We must push on and develop. Golf is being rellected in every trade and profession. Business is business and golf is golf. Yet they are so closely associated that they J mingle. As in business so in golf. active service and disinterested motives must prevail. We have made our pile or got it someliow and j spent it let us hope and believe to ; " a good purpose. Too many members :n all branches of sport and other lictivities settle ,into a groove after completing some service great or small apparently influenced by the ; thought that they have played their . | part and that no further service is required or solicited. Wipe this idea • off the slate. If you don't. go to the secretary and he will give you a vaccine sufficiently virile to estab- ] Ush resistance of such insiduous , ! maladies.

i The only difFerencei between a j groove and a grave is a matter of i distance. and members should give , : thought to the resuseitation of dead J j wood which can be found in all j j ^.lnhs. Let us therefore he forgetful j ■ of self and work for our club. ; | The Club is starting out on a- new j year and the point we are trying to J make is that if it is to thrivc, and ; thrive on a permanent basis we [ ! must have the intelligence. active ; ] sympathy, Avide-awakeness and en- j I crgy of members to bring down a : | tidal wave of progressiveness and i I hlaze a patli of service and univer- : sal golfing friendship, bringing to ; the loom a fmer thread of unselfish i companionship leading to a mend- ; ing of many broken threads in the ' individual's life so that there will | | he a whole-souled camaraderie ma- J ! king the 1 Club democratic, The j Club should not be exclusive. It is ; ! tor all. The membership subscrip- j I tion may be relatively high com- j | pared with other branches oi sport ! but this is only through necessity j as a golf club cannot be run on the • scale of a cricket. football or tennis club. j

We are proud of our accomplishments and solicit the enthusiasm of members in support of our further efforts and to now push on and achieve our final objective with concentrated effort "with malice towards none, with charity to all," and so the Clfib will grow and prosper. 4