Golf AS SUMMER PASTIME

NZ Truth, Issue 1302, 27 November 1930, Page 14

Golf AS SUMMER PASTIME

Golf Coming Into ' Its Own (From "N:Z. Truth's" -Special Golf Representative). CUMMER golf is coming to its own. y and each year. has' seen ita numbers • increase. Daylight saving has played a part m Its popularity, and no game could be more enjoyable than a round of- golf In the cool of a summers evening. Basil Smith, junior, somewhat atoned for his failure at Hokuwhitu by annexing the champion of champions event at Tltorangi, but his two rounds of 81 each are not a glowing testimonial to the form displayed by his opponents. • .There is no doubt that among the nonquallflers at Palmerston there -was not an unluclder man than the Hutt player. Buist, and he fully demonstrated this by accounting for Rana Wagg m the final of his club championship last week. This . lad from Scotland caii produce the goods and will be heard of again. Dr. Abbott proved "too steady for Tonks Gardner In the final at Middlemore, though the latter made a gallant fight for the greater part of the Journey. The New. Plymouth championship went to A. E.. Conway for the third time m succession, his victim on this occasion being- C. H. Stephenson, who took the count at the 34th hole, where the ex-Miramar man holed his chip, for a. two- : Though he failed to stand up to the strain of the Amateur, A. D. S. Duncan showed m the final of the championship at Miramar, that x in a single match, he is still a force -to be reckoned with. He always had the measure of Jimmy Drake even though the game went tathe 34th. Miss. Cicely Lascelles, the Victorian player, recently „ visited New Plymouth and created new figures for the course when, she: returned a card of. 77. She > finished up the round with seven fours. The members' of Miramar could not " j let Hareld Black's win In the amateur .pass without some tangible recognition, and Harold has now a very ' nice piece of furniture for his mantle- - piece. ■ . - The day of the' steel "snaft is undoubtedly coming, but they are still far Irom perfect, and golfers who- rush m and buy a .full set and expect to go out and find that a miracle ,has been performed on their game are m for a sad disappointment.