GOLF. NOTES BY BULGER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 64

GOLF. NOTES BY BULGER.

The New Zealand Amateur Golf Championship meeting will be held this year at Cornwall Park Auckland, under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Golf Club. Entries close with Mr W. Wallace Bruce, hon. secretary, Swanson street, Auckland, on Saturday, 11th September. The tournament commences on Monday, September 13, and concludes on Saturday 18. A very neat programme of events has been issued by the Auckland Club, included in which are the following: — Amateur Championship of New Zealand : Two qualifying rounds (stroke play), the 32 players returning the best scores to play off by match play over 18 holes, final being 36 holes. Winner and runner-up will each receive a trophy in addition to the gold ,and silver medah presented by the New Zealand Golf Council. Winner will also be considered the winner of the Challenge Cup. The cup will be handed to the club of which the winner is a member, and will be held by that club until the next championship meeting. Open Championship of New Zealand : Four rounds of medal play. Open to any professional or amateur. Prizes, £20, £10, and £5, for the first, second, and third players. Should an amateur secure a place he will receive a trophy. Professional Match: Over 18 holes, match play. Open to any professional in New Zealand or elsewhere. First prize, £10; second prize, £2. This match will not be played unless there are six entries. Interclub Challenge "Vase: Presented by Mr E. D. O'Rorke, to- be held by the winning- club until npxt championship meeting. Tea ni3 of four players o represent each club. The aggregate gross score of each team in second qualifying round of event No. 1 will decide the event.

Other events include a bogey handicap, foursome bogey match (handicap), meAal handicap (to be played concurrently with the two qualifying rounds for the amateur championship), driving competition, and approaching and putting competition. Putting competitions will be held daily, a prize being given to the winner each day, and a speoial- prize to the player returning the bost card during the week. The time-tab!© for the New Zealand Golf Championships is as follows: — Monday. September 13: 9.30 a.m., open championship of New Zealand, first round; 1.30 p.m.. open championship of New Zealand, second round. Tuesday: 9.30- a.m., open (third round) and Prst" qualifying round (amateur), concurrent wifi this is played first round Medal Handicap; 1.30 p.m., open (fourth roun'l) and racond qualifying round (amateur), concurrent, with this is played the second round Modal Handicap, also Intei--club Challenge Vase. Wednesday : 8.30 a.m., professional match play (first rourid); 9.30 a.m., first round match play (amateur championship); 1.30 p.m., Bogey Handicap. . Thursday: 8.30 a.m., professional ma^ch play (second round); 9.30 a.m.. second round match play (amateur championship) ; 1.30 p.m., foursomes bogey handicap. Friday: 8.30 a.m., professional match play (third round); 9.30 a.m.. third round match play (amateur championship); 1.30 p m fourth round match play (amateur championship); 3.15 p.m., driving competition and approaching and putting competition. , . . Saturday: 8.30 a.m.. professional match play (final); 9.30 a.m., first final match play (amateur championship); 1.30 p.m., second final match play (amateur championship). During their etay in Auckland the visiting competing golfers will be the guests of th* Auckland Golf Club. They will be conveyed as such to the links by tram free of charge. Tickets will be suppled by thft secretary or> application. The visitors will bo entertained at the Northern. Club jto dinner on the Saturday evening by tne Auckland Golf Club. Arrangements will be made by which luncheon and afternoon tea may be obtained at the club house during the tournament. The condition governing the amateur championship in the programme under review reads: "Every competitor («ave ihe competitors in the Open Championship) must be a member of a golf club on the register of the New Zealand Golf Council, and muet have resided for three months m New Zealand either before or aiter having been elected as such m amber. "_ I em under the impression that this is wrong, as, if my memory serves me, it was altered at the meeting of the council held in Dun-edin last year, .Making the New Zealand championship opsn to any amateur, as is the :ase with Australian championships. At the Royal Syd-npv Golf Club 60 players competed at Rc=e Bay in th<s qualifying round for the Wikon Cup^. Thie cup wns presented by Captain Leslie Wilson, D.5.0.. and the conditions are fir.'-fc eii?ht to qualify to play off by match play. The couise was in very fine order, the result being that some very fine cards wore handed in. The star performance of the afternoon, however, was put up by the leader, C. H. Read in <r, who returned a really fine round of 76. his figures being: Out • 4, 7, 3, 5, 5, 3, . 3, A—3BA — 38 In: 4, 4, 3, 5. 3. 4. 6, 4. s— 3S— 76

This score was put up from the back teos, and as the course has recently been rebunkered it will at once be seen that Reading's performance was a very good one. He had extremely bad luck at the second hole. Hia ball lodged in one of the potholes, and lay against a piece of blue metal, which cost him 3 to git out. Thi3 was practically the only blemish on hia caxd. Included in his round was a fine 4 at the seventh (563 yds), and the eleventh and fifteenth in 4's.

In horse-racing we often read of a badlvcontested race having been won in a canter. At Cammeray, Sydney, on a recent Saturday their stroke competition was easily won by a gallop (E. Gallop). His card read : *90, 22—68. The second man was nine strokes away.

The golf house of"" the Brisbane Golf Club was destroyed by fire last week, together with a large quantity of golfers' material ia the shape of clothes, ciuT?s 4 etc.

I Some- Hunter's Hill players who happened to be up north at the- tiros lost some of their belongings. Intending competitors are reminded that entries for the Australasian open and amateur meeting to be held at Sandringham, commencing on the 6th September, close 'with the secretary of the Royal Mel- '. bourne Golf Club not later than Monday,

! bourne Golf Club not later than Monday, August 16. The- fopr-ball challenge match, Soutar and O'Brien against East and Popplewell, has not yet been finally arranged. The venue is the stumbling block, as, up to date, the parties have been unable to agree on the course or courses where the battle is to be fought out. The Open Championship of the United •' States ha 6 just been won by George Sar- ' gent. At the end of the first day Macnamaira led with an aggregate of 142. He ' played a steady first round of 73, and a ' brilliant second- of 69. Sargent "was then five strokes behind- the leader. On the final day Macnamara fell away in his play, and Sargent played splendidly. The best 6cores were: — George Sargent, 290; Tom Mecnamara, 294- ; Alex. Smith, 295 : and

Willie Anderson, 299. Sargent is an Englishman. He waa formerly under Harry Vardon at Ganton, and three years ago h© went over to America as professional for the Ottawa Club.

OTAGO LADIES' GOLF CLUB. The following is the Tesult of the junior medai competition in connect-on with the Otago Ladies' Golf Club, played on the 19th:— -

VICTORIAN CHAMPIONSHIP.

MELBOURNE, August 20. The Kon. M. Scott won the golf championship o£ Victoria.

MLse Rovse Miss I. 'Ra-ttray Miss Holmes Mies F. Ratfcray ... Mies A. Mill Miss M. Sise Miss C. Williams Mrs Black . ... Gross. Hop. Net. -.., ~. 114 "30 84 116 30 86 . „. 112 23 89 123 30 93 ... --. 119 23 96 . ... 124 27 97 £. -. 110 11 99 ... 115 15 100