GOLF NOTES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 317, 2 September 1932, Page 2

GOLF NOTES

(Notes by "Chip-Shot").

SUCCESS OF TOURNEYS EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES OF TITIRANGI CLUB PLAYERS ROTORUA TEAMS LOSE

With the playing of two of the main annual fixtures of the Rotorua Golf Club, considerable activity has been taking place at the Arikikapakapa course during the last two weeks and comments on the enjoyable nature of the tourneys have been made by both players and speetators alilce. Throughout the two weeks, excellent golfing weather has favoured the club and the arrangements- have left nothing to be desired. A notable feature of the open championship tournament was the success of members of the Titirangi Club, both the winner of the championship title, G. Tallis and L. F. Murray, who won the Thermal Cup, hailing from this club. Both played steady golf throughout the series of matches and their wins were very popular. Good entries were received for the Veterans' Cup competition, which is taking place this week and up to the time of writing an excellent standard of play has been maintained. Local Play. Although no play has Heen possible for Rotorua club members on their own course during the tournaments, a team of both ladies and men visited Tauranga during the week-end, where friendly matches were played against the local club. Iln the men's games Tauranga defeated Rotorua by a margin of three matches, but the ladies were more successful, being all square in the foursome and losing the singles by two games. Motutara Club. A start was made last week with preliminary competitions for handicap purposes by the Motutara Club members, and it is understood that some excellent cards were returned. These matches will be continued until the players have each handed in three cards, after which handicaps will be arranged and further competitions arranged. Popular Visitoi*. When the Kirk-Windeyer Cup matches were last p-layed at Shirley, there was no member of the visiting teams more popular with Christchurch golfers than the Victorian, M. J. Ryan, who has justwon the Australian open championship. Ryan is a fine stylist, and possesses the ideal temperament for big golf, besides being a sportsman in every sense of the word. Ry; won the Australian amateur championship three years ago, when he beat Sloan Morpeth, the ex-New Zealander, in the final. He has been playing at top of his forrn recently, so that his victory in the open will not have been altogether unexpected, though he was not one of the ruling favourites for the event. The holder, Ivo Whitton, must have played well below expectations to finish 18th in the big event, as he has been playing great golf of late. Harry Williams, the amateur champion, finished sixth. He has been having a lot of trouble with his game recently, and despite a lot of hard practice, he has not been able to get back to his old form. The entry for the championship was not so representative this year as usual; Adelaide is a long way from Sydney and Melbourne, where most of the golfers hail from, and times are rather hard for making long trips. Jones as an Amateur. "Bobby" Jones wants to come back as an amateur, and proposes to compete in the next British open and amateur championships, provided the authorities are willing to reinstate" him, aecording to an American writer who says he has learned from Jones' intimate friends what his intentions are. When Jones made his contract with the Hollywood people for a series of "shorts" — out of which he is reputed to have made huge sums — it was announced in Scotland that he would always remain an honorary member of the Royal and Ancient Club at St. Andrew's. If that were true, it would seern to indicate that his chances of being accepted as an amateur again are good. Aecording to the writer who announces his comeback, Jones is ambitious to repeat his great performanc of winning the British amateur and open, and the American amateur and open, in the same year. H. B. Lusk. H. B. Luskf who has been competing in Rotorua, has been playing great golf in Auckland lately. A? Middlemore recently he did a 72, which is believed to be the best official score to date over the new course, and so should rank as a record. He required three fours to break 70, bic his touch with the putter was not quite sure enough under^the strain, and he took fives at three holes where he could have got fours. The course record at Middelmore is 70, but it was made when the course was praetically free from bunkers. "there are still folks who lcnow so little about New Zealand that they suppose it is part of Australia, and inhabited chiefly by cannibals. What will they say when 1 tell them that 'Maoriland' contains thriving and populous eities, with all the neeessaries' and most of the luxuries of civilisation including, by the way, some of the finest tobacco I have ever smoked. The culture of this tobacco, and its manufacture now_ constitute a flourishing New Zealand industry giving1 employment, directly and indirectly, to many hands. Some of the foreign tobaccos are not as free from nicotine as they should be, but little faulth can be found with the New Zealand article in that respect, because the special process to which it is ^ subjeeted by the manufacturers rids it of excess of nicotine and renders it safe to smoke. Even connoisseurs commend it." (Reference is made by this writer to the four toasted brands. (there are no others) Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10.)