GOLF NOTES.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 6

GOLF NOTES.

THE OAMARU COURSE. The new links as they appear today are not in the abstract. In fact so tangible are they that they have cast a hypnotic spell over members, and motor cars are speeding to and fro daily, tlieir owners and friends just revelling in the new life, something previously unknown in Oamaru golf. They seean filled with some great purpose, absorbed entirely in the delights the links now provide; and they are going to be ever so much better for they are just emerging from the emhryo state. They will be a joy to the heart and a delight to the lungs for one gets an impression of open space., joyous and magnificent. There will not be a man or woman or child in Oamaru who will not be able to direct the visitor to the golf links, and that's one of the first questions a visitor asks. Wide bitumened streets with avenues of trees are quite subsidary and when the visitor returns to his home towri and is asked how he liked Oamaru, his first reply is: "Oh! They have glorious golf links, and so picturesque, running east to the rippling Pacific; to the west rising in the distance to snow capped mountain ranges and to the North villas nestling among the hills and to the south rollings down and fields of ripening grain." So, \ve come to the conclusionthat the links are part and parcel of the town's equipment. Golf gounuets will find all they can digest and more. Trees, ditches, creeks, bunkei's, long holes for the big hitter, short holes for the mashie expert and the devil's own if you fozzle. Just that amount of spiciness that excites the mind. It's going to be a matchless course for | the good player but the very deuce i for the reckless one and that's just | what the course should he. Never- | theless, the puller and slicer, top- | per and digger is not going to lose I any sleep over his misfortunes for the "Fulname" marker is a safe investment and your halls comc back to you in shoals. No one dare jfiav your found ball with your full name blazoned around it unless it is at the 17th "Waterloo," where, if he loses it he is still all square. on balls though another down on bogey. He may perchance play it at the j 18th, "Home" to save carrying it, ] but that's only an incident. You get j your ball and that's all you are looking for. There will be an up- j to-date ball cleaner at the Club j House which interests the player as j much as the owner of the lost but j found.