TO VISIT SYDNEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 11

TO VISIT SYDNEY

LARGE PARTY GOING R. O. GARDNER REPRESENTS US In addition to seven players from New Zealand who will compete in the Australian Championships, a party of at least 12 others are accompanying the Kirk-Windeyer cup team to Sydney a the end of next week. A. D. S. Duncan (captain), K. Ross, E. Macfarlane, T. H. Horton and Leo. Quin, from whom the cup four will be chosen, are all entered in the open and amateur championships, together with R. O. Gardner of Auckland, and J. S. Harrison. The matches will be played at Rose Bay, the Australian States challenging, playing off on June 8 and 9, and the final, into which New Zealand will go automatically, being on June 11. So far as I can ascertain only New South Wales was in the field from Australia, but there are hopes that Jno. Whitton will take over a Victorian team. Considerably more interest will be added if he does. SMALLER THIS YEAR AMERICAN ATTACK ON BRITAIN It is now believed that the British will have little to fear from the Americans in their championships this year. For as far as can be learned few professionals or amateurs are making plans to go abroad. Bobby Jones, who won the Open Championship last year, has definitely stated that he will not defend his title, and Walter Hagen has declared that he will forego the trip this summer. “There is one golfer, however, who is anxious to have a try at the British Open Championship crown, and that one is Bobby Cruickshank,” says a New York writer. “Bobby has never been back to Britain since he came here as an amateur about five years ago, and he believes that he is playing good enough golf to win the event. He, however, is engaged as professional at the Progress Club in Westchester, and unless the club officials give him permission to go abroad, he will forego his ambitions in that direction. “It would be a great thing, however, if the club did grant him permission to make the journey, for there is no one in the game who is playing as fine golf as he is. In fact it is debatable if there has ever been anyone, Bobbjr Jones excepted, who has played better golf than Cruickshank has for the last three months. His hitting of the ball is superb and he now has something that he lacked in the past—confidence. In the event that he goes to St. Andrew’s this summer the British golfers will have to play better than par to beat him.” SO THIS IS ROTORUA Mr. Sutton, secretary of the New Zealand Golf Council: I arrived in Rotorua on March 9 and found 15 professionals gathered there for the autumn tournament, all speaking highly of the very high condition of the course. The scoring at the meeting and the later personal inspection quite confirmed this fact and the Rotorua Club is to be congratulated on having probably the most enjoyable course in the Dominion. The fairways and greens were excellent and the rough not too rough, while the bunkering recently done, even if erring on the severe side in several places, has added interest to the play. The meeting was run in the efficient way expected of the capable local secretary, Mr. Ford, and his tournament committee, all of whom I have to thank for every courtesy. The handicapping done by the secretary, Mr. Blair and myself, you will observe, resulted in 13 out of 15 competitors getting into prize money. The professionals were highly pleased with their autumn meeting and their treatment generally. ROTORUA RESULTS A bogey match was played by ladies of the Rotorua Golf Club last week for Mrs. Hyde’s trophy. Results: Miss Fortune (32), 3 up; Miss Murray (30), 2 up; Mrs. Hampson (24), 1 up. C grade match (for Mrs. Ewen’s trophy): Miss G. Young, 92 —8, 84; Mrs. Griffiths, 108 —17, 91; Mrs. R. Smith, 101—9, 92. PLAYING ACROSS HIGHWAYS English golfers were greatly interested in the decision given at Westminster County Court by DeputyJudge Ross-Brown, K.C., who held that a golfer, playing across a public highway, was liable for damages to a motor-vehicle hit by his golf ball. The decision, affecting a large number of users of the public highway and golfers, raised a point never previously decided in the courts. A previous case which was somewhat similar had been decided in favour of the golfer, because the damaged car had been driven not on to a public highway, but on to a common where golf was played. BOBBIE JONES AGAIN Playing at Atlanta, U.S.A., on a course he has known since boyhood, R. T. (Bobbie) Jones won the 12,000 dollars tournament on March 27, with rounds of 72, 66, 71, 72, total 281. lie was followed by eight professionals, J. Farrell and J. Golden (289) being in a tie for second. Among the others were J. Espinosa 291, L. Diegel 2 92, R. Cruickshands 294. J. Hutchison 297, and W. Hagen 299. It seems difficult to form any opinion as to where Jones will stop. He is only in his middle twenties yet. STRONG POINTS OF GOLFING It gives to the bad the sleep of the just, It lays the proud low in the bunker of dust; It raises the humble to sit in the lap Of fortune, made kind by a fair handicap. For the man of adventure, ’tis balm to his soul ■To get himself happily into a hole— Then let out your elbows and swing your club free, And don’t press your game with a “drat” or a “D ” Macplierson Macniblick was observed the other day at an indoor school under the ginfluence. It seems he had received a bottle of cherries preserved in (deleted by the censor) which caused him to remark, “it wasn’t so much the gift that affected him. as the spirit it was sent in.” “The idea seems to be abroad that golf is primarily a game to enrich architects, dealers in supplies and everybody else, except players. Golfers, not long ago were blamed for favouring daylight saving. It’s interesting to know that golfers are really becoming concerned about saving anything.” So says a recent number of the Greens Section Bulletin of the United States Golf Association. ONE TREE HILL LADIES The first round of the handicap match played by members of the Maungaklekie Ladies’ Golf Club at One Tree Hill links on Tuesday, resulted: Miss K.. HortoL defeated Miss Grove,;

5 and 4; Mrs. Dignan defeated Mrs. White, 3 and 2; Mrs. Sutcliffe defeated Mrs. Robinson, 4 and 2; Miss Blackburn defeated Miss Millington, 9 and 7; Mrs. Horton defeated Mrs. Grevatt, 7 and 6; Miss McGowan defeated Miss Evans, 4 and 2; Miss D. Horton defeated Miss Q. Robson, 6 and 5; Miss Carnham defeated Mrs. Stewart, 8 and 7; Miss G. Easton defeated Mrs. Malcolm, 8 and 7; Mrs. Carr defeated Miss McCabe, 8 and 7; Miss Haslett defeated Mrs. Robb, 6 and 4; Mrs. Burton defeated Mrs. Richardson, 3 and 2; Miss Preece defeated Mrs. Goldwater, 6 and 4; Miss Litten and Miss Richardson, all square; Miss Cooke and Miss Stubbs, all square; Mrs. Swan won by default from Mrs. Owen. The medal round for players not engaged in the handicap was won by Mrs. Brown. Following is the draw for the C grade match to be played at One Tree Hill links to-morrow:—Mrs. Poplin v. Mrs. Choyce; Mrs. Fitzpatrick v. Mrs. Blaikie; Mrs. Paterson v. Miss Rutherford; Mrs. Coldicutt v. Mrs. MooreJones; Mrs. Baird v. Mrs. Gyllies; Mrs. Hardley v. Miss E. Schnauer; Miss Ronayne v. Miss Easdown; Mrs. Jones v. Miss N. Clarke; Miss Reid v. Miss P. Moody. OTAHUHU CLUB A medal match, for which post entries will be received, will be played by members of the Otahuhu Golf Club on Saturday. EVERSLIE CLUB The medal round which was postponed last Saturday will be played by members of the Everslie Golf Club on Saturday. No alteration will be made in the draw.