PULLS AND SLICES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 September 1931, Page 4

PULLS AND SLICES

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11 The weather during last week-end | was certainly an improvement on the | previous week-end. The conditiohs j| cleared sufficiently at the latter part j of last week to ieave the course in exI cellent playing condition for the post- | poned. first round of the Rotorua j eclectic handicap. | The best eafd in the first round was j returned by.C. Kusabs, with a score | of 73, many of the holes being birdjj ies. The next best was that of S. E. |J Carr with a 74. There are many | others close to these figures and there l| is no saying how things will stand II | at the eonelusion of the second round. i| The tenth hole seemed to be a | stumbling bloclc to practically all the || golfers-last Saturday, the only con- | testant in the ecldetie match manag|J ing- to get even as low as bogey be- , || C. Kusabs. Why the sudden di--I fficulty with this hole is not known, j for in other weeks it has not been any . _ particular obstacle. The newly sown ground .on the i| Arikikapakapa course will soon be g showing signs of growth. At presenti the greenlceepers are being kepi. busy i rolling these patches to consolidate = the loose earth. | Mr. H. Hamilton, who a little over | a fortnight ago did a hole in one at | the second, was caught last week-end | at the nineteenth by a surprising | number of the Rotorua golfers. Mr. | Hamilton certainly seemed a little | handicapped with such numerous | hazards around him and it cost him 5 many penalties before he regained | the open fairway. 3 As the weather upset the compe- | tition arrangements by causing the | postponement of the eclectic match i for a week, the Canadian foursoine I competition which was set down for | Saturday, September 19, will have to I be abandoned. The second round of I the eclectic match will be played on ] that date, the times and partners be- : ing the same as in the first round.

A big mistake made by many golfers is that they attempt to do all the worlc with the body iristead of letting the club head do its share. If the body is brought into play before the club comes through the shot is nearly always spoiled. Let me put it this way. The body should assist the club. The club should not assist the body. When ap layer is off his game he will find that he will get better results by letting the club come through — that is he should take things easily until he reaches form again. He will hit better balls and with more accurate direction if this is done. (See illustration above.) It may be of interest to those who have not seen the programme of event.r, to mention the matches set down for the near future. On September 26 there will be a flag match and on the following Saturday another bo^ey fouirsome eonipeftition will be held. After October 3, the | male members of the golfing fraternity will have a couple of weeks' spell while the lady golf enthusiasts of New Zealand compete for the honour of winning the New Zealand Ladies' Golf Championship. On October 9 the Ladies' Amateur Championship of New Zealand will commence on the Arikikapakapa course. The contest will extend

over six aays, tne nnal bemg played on Thursday, october 15. The holder of the Cup, which was presented for competition by the late Mrs. G. G. Stead, of Christchurch, is Miss 0. Kay, of Otago. The championship is open to all amateur lady golfers with certified handicaps not higher than 10, and who are members of any recognised golf club. The winner, besides receiving the cup, will also get the N.Z. L.G.U. gold medal and a souvenir presented by Mrs. Guy Williams, while the runn.er-up receives a trophy and a silver medal, and the two semi-finalists, bronze medals. Besides 1jhes^ two main events, other eyents to be played are: — bogey handicaps; a coronation medal handicap; a championship foursomes of New Zealand; a L.G.U. challenge bowl match; the Donnelly Cup match, the Mellsop Cup match; and the Rattray Cup match. It may be interesting to the lady golfers to learn the names of some of the winners of the New Zealand Ladies' Golf Championship, which competition has been in existence since 1893. The winners since 1919 are as follows: — Miss N. E. Wright (two years) ; Mrs. G. Williams (two years) ; Miss Vigor Brown, Mrs. Peake, Mrs. Dogshun, Mrs. E. G. Kerr, Mrs. Collinson, Miss Chrystall, Mrs. Dodgshun and Miss O. Kay. The winners of the New Zealand Championship foursomes, a competition which has only been in existence for two years, are: — 1929, Misses 0. Kay and M. Payton; and 1930, Mrs. G. Williams and Miss S. Watson. The annual meeting of delegates of the New Zealand Ladies' Gblf Union will be held in the Rotorua Golf House on October 12 at 7.30 p.m.