On the Links

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1050, 14 August 1930, Page 6

On the Links

Notes for Golfers

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Auckland Golf i Saturday last was a most uninviting j day, and at one time it seemed that serious golf would be out of the ques- ' tion. The rain, however, became gradually lighter, and by about 4 it stopped. Even in the early afternoon judicious use of an umbrella was enough to enable one to keep quite reasonably dry. Conditions were very heavy and the lies on all the courses were difficult to negotiate. Water lay on many of the greens, but it was possible to find a dry spot for the hole. If anyone wants a really tricky shot let him try from about 20yds on a green with two or three pools between him and the hole- Of course if he can find a dry route he may move, but sometimes he cannot. Maungakiekie sent a fairly strong team up to Hamilton for an interclub match, and, like the Auckland Club a few weeks ago, it met disaster. T. A. Goulding made quite a good fight with J. L. Black, whom lie would liaidly expect to beat on the latter’s own course. W. L. Robinson had a win from IT. T. Gillies, blit in the total Hamilton won comfortably by 8 to 4. The junior Hamilton team was also successful, winning by 0 to 4. If the men from Titirangi didn’t come back with victory, ;<t least they brought the conviction that they had had a good time. At Middlemore the second round of the 72-hole medal match was played under wet conditions. Despite the heavy ground and water on the greens, some excellent scores were put in: H. Plum ley did 73 off the sticks, and S. C. Colbeck 75. These scores, good as they were, were not good enough, for the Wilson brigade was in evidence again. R. B. Wilson, after a disastrous start with 6,7, played excellent golf and finished in SI, 9—72; but JMcK. Wilson went one better with 85. 14 —71. C. Jacobsen also had a nett 72, and Dr. Johnson 74. The two rounds so far played are headed by R. B. Wilson, 73 and 72, and J. McK. Wilson, 74 and 71. Otahuhu was occupied with the first qualifying round for the club championship. W. B. Eustace was round in 77, and 1... J. Croxson had a 79, as did li. Menzies. The handicap played concurrently was won by C. Biggs, who had a nett 64 from the 23 mark — a score the back-markers would appreciate. Glendowie and Maungakiekie had a four-ball match, Glendowie being successful by 4 games to 3- The Irvine Cup, which is competed for by the Pukekohe and Everslie Clubs was secured bv Pukekohe with 12 matches to 6 B. J. Smith did a good round of 75 at Akarana in the first qualifying round for the club championship. This is an excellent score at any time, and especially under Saturday’s unfavourable conditions. Glendowie finished off its captain’s prize match, A. <\ Nicholls defeating K. Brookfield in the final by 3 and 2. The other members played a Canadian foursome, O. Wolfgram and H. Goodwin having the best card, 2 up. The Even Hole A hole at St. Andrew s, which often causes serious damage to the card, is the short 11th. It is J 64 yards in length and very closely bunkered. The kev bunker is light in front of the green, and at the back of the Eden River' On a calm day it is quite possible to carry the bunker ip front with a high pitch and stop on the green and, if the wind is against it is still easy. The trouble is that the wind is usually from the sides, and on that exposed shore is practically always strong. There are bunkers to ho carried most of the way but, ii the shot is hit. only the ones about : the green matter. To prevent the. wind • from carrving the ball into one of the side bunkers is the problem. Abe Mitchell considers that in a wind the ; even hole is the hardest one-shotter he has ever played. Here is his - description of it: “The green slopes toward the tee and is bunkered deeply : (in either side, with the beach beyond ; if you go over. On calm days a strong masbie shot will get home, but » there’s almost always that North Sea L wind. Here's the way I try to outwit Boreas. If the wind blows from the left, I play a mid-iron shot with a i slight hook. If the wind is from the ! right, I play a three-quarter slice into i the breeze with a/ fairly straight-faced club. With the wind, 1 underclub ; with a lofty mashie.” All these shots ’ may be right enough for Mitchell who. - as ‘is well known, can play them, but ’ for the ordinary amateur they take I some doing. \Vhcn Bobby Jones put ' up his record aggregate of 285 tills hole didn’t trouble him —he had 3 threes ] and a two. “Bobby” Human After All E. M. Cockrell gives a bright des- ’ cription of Bobby Jones’s fourth round ‘ in the open last June. Jones started | out one stroke behind Compston and two ahead of Diegel. He was not. • happy about his game, and the strain • was evidently very severe. At the ! second, he cut his tee shot badly, and . the ball pitched on a spectator s head and bounced off it quite 30 yards into j a bunker. From here he played a magnificent shot to the green (the • hole is 369 yards) and holetl the putt for a three. At the third, his approach putt travelled only half-way to the > hole. But it was at the Bth, 480 yards i against the wind, that he crashed. Two magnificent woods put him about > 30 yards short of the green. To quote Mr. Cockell: “His third, which just reached the green, was worthy of a . 10 handicap player not at his best: s his fourth, very short, was worthy of ■ an honest, full-blooded rabbit; his fifth would not have got him a club handicap; and his sixth was reminiscent of an L.G.U. 36. Mr. Jones had taken a 7!” After this he gradually mastered himself, and by the time he reached the 14th was the usual machine. He played niaster golf from the 14th to the end and got a 75. Jones’s lapse might well have lost him the title, but Compston could do nothing right and took 82, his record 6S of the morning have apparently taken too much out of him, and Diegel just missed his chance by slipping strokes here and there. i Don Moe It is only about two years ago tjiat 1 we began to hear about this remarkable lad from the Middle West winning open events at the age of IS while still an undergraduate. His continued excellence gained him a place in the Walker Cup team of 1930, and it is of his wonderful win from : J. A. Stout that the critics are writing. The big, lovable lad, whose personality immediately won the British crowd—there were 7,000 at Sandwich including, the Prince of Wales—was a bit below his best in the morning, and at the third hole in the afternoon he \vas 7 down. Stout didn’t look like cracking, so here was a much-needed win for Britain. Moe from this point went mad. A marvellous succession of threes gradually I pulled down the Englishman’s long lead, and with one hole to play he had squared the match. At the 36th he put a beautiful second 7ft from the pin with his iron, and as Stout found trouble the putt was not neededThe magnitude of the effort can be estimated when one considers that Stout’s afternoon round was 73, and yet he was defeated, after being 7 up at the third. But the young American did the round in 67, and that after slipping a stroke or two on the first three. This is a more amazing performance than that of J. L. Black I at Dunedin, when he turned a first-

round deficit of 9 holes into victory, for Stout’s round would normally have been pood enough to win without any start. In France After the British Women’s Championship, Miss Collett, in response to an invitation from Mine. Vagliano, took her team of American women to Paris to play an international match. Of course it was not expected that the French women would win from so redoubtable a party, but the traditional friendship between France and the United states ensured a most interesting visit. The match was played at St. Cloud, a beautiful course of about 6,200yd5, near Paris. It is set among woods of beautiful old trees, silver birch, alder and aspen, and though not really difficult still needs accurate golf to get a score. It was here that A. Boomer in 1929 put up that marvellous round of 61. The singles brought in 7 wins to the Americans as against 3 for France. Mile. Simone de la Chaume, now Mme. Lacoste, made an excellent fight against Miss Collett, being beaten by 2 and 1. Miss Orcutt and Miss Hicks had very easy wins, but the rest of ’the games were close. In the Scottish foursomes that followed, Mile de la Chaume and Mme. Vagliano played splendidly to win from Miss Collett and Miss Wall by 2 and J. France won one other foursome, so that the final result was a win for the States by 10£ to 4£. Mile de la Chaume recently won the French Women’s Championship again. Only the other day she might have been seen in the paper emerging from church on the arm of Rene Lacoste.

AROUND THE LINKS AUCKLAND LADIES’ DRAW Following is the draw for the open day medal competition to be held tomorrow by members of the Auckland Ladies’ Golf Club, players starting in the order of the draw: — 9 a.m.— Mrs. Hodges v. airs. Ferguson, Mrs. J. M. Wilson v. Mrs. Husking, Mrs. Marshall v. Miss E. Wilson. Miss K. Horton v. Mrs. Buttle. Miss Hamlin v. Mrs. Rutherford, Mrs. It. L. Wilson v. Miss Upton, Mrs. Robertson v. Miss O. Darraeh, Mrs. F. Browne v. Miss L. Cutfield, Mrs. Swain v. Miss E. Mahoney, Miss X. Xoakes v. Mrs. Green, Mrs. O’Leary v. Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. Finlay v. Miss Moginie, Mrs. Russell v. Mrs. Rainger, Mrs. Hintz v. Mrs. S. A. Smith, Mrs. Preston v. Miss McGovern. 10 a.m.—Mrs. E. Hutchison v. Mrs. Wright, Miss Leggoe v. Miss Buddie, Mrs. Craven v. Miss H. Cutfield, Mrs. Hughes v. another, Mrs. E. B. Brown v. Mrs. G. Goldwater, Mrs. Xeale v. Mrs. A. M. Grant, Mrs. Stanley v. Miss Ridings, Miss I). Brookfield v. Mrs. G. L. Taylor, Mrs. T. M. Macdonald v. Mrs. Ralph. Miss M. Richardson v. Miss L. Roberton, Mrs. Horton v. Mrs. Prater, Miss W. Hintz v. Miss X. Ballantyne, Airs. Warren v.

Mrs Croft, Mrs. Lovett v. Miss E>- Lever. Mrs. Grevatt v. Mrs. Trice. < 11 a.m.—Mrs. Gorrie v. Mrs. Roberts. Mrs Lever v. Airs. Butler, Mrs. A. Hill ■ v. Mrs. Xevill, Miss J. Little v. Miss S. Henderson, Miss M. Miller v. Mrs. Towle. Mrs. B. Cooke v Mrs. J. W. Carr. Mrs. W J Reid v. Miss R. Roberton. Mrs. Mcllraith vT Miss P. Coutts. Miss R. Wilson v. Miss M. Nevill, Mrs. C. M. Cox v. Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Rowntree v. Miss if Asser, Mrs. Busing v. Mrs. G. Miller. Mrs G. Mathieson v. Mrs. Foster. Miss Prickett v .Mrs. A. Friedlander, Mrs. 11. Brinsden v. Miss C Rainger. 12 Noon. —Mrs. Noel Johnson v. Mrs. Rudge, Mrs. R- G. Bennett v. Miss J. Duthie, Mrs. Coppard v. Mrs. Jerrat, Mrs. Ross v Mrs McGinley, Mrs. Dunne v. Mrs. Keys, Mrs. Broughton v. Mrs. Howey Walker, Mrs. Balgarnie v. Miss Mcrllashan Mrs G. A. Hardley v. Mis. Grant Miss M. Bailey v. Miss M. Walklev. Mrs. Beaumont v. Mrs. Boddingtc.'n Mrs. Gillien v. Mrs. Campbell. Mrs. G. Hutchison v. Miss K. Sou ter, Mrs. Restall v. Mrs. Lovegrove, Miss A. C'debrook v. Miss H. Hardley, Mrs. G. Court v Mrs. J. Kissling, Mrs. B. Goldwater v. Miss V. Souter, Mrs. J. C. Hardley v. another.

AKARANA LADIES’ CLUB Following is the draw for a flag match j to be played on Saturday by members of tlie Akarana Ladies Golf Club. Mis. . Sutton v. Miss Dowling Miss Mynyard v Griffin Miss McMath v. Miss Roberts, Miss Longdill v. Miss Smith., Miss E. T. Davies v. Miss Lawson Alias McGee v. Miss I. Deacon, Miss L. i*eainlev v Miss Hickman, Miss A. Deacon v. Miss Jovce. Miss Cousins v. Miss Knott. Miss Connett v. Miss Webber, Miss Jenks The draw for the C grade flag match is as follows:—Miss Farrow Tracev, Miss Crabtree v. Miss Neu lie. Miss Walmsley v. Miss Barton, Miss ParYin v. Miss Broadley. GLENDOWIE LADIES’ CLUB Following is the draw for Saturday plavers of the Glendowie Ladies Golf Club, who will play the second round of the eclectic match in conjunction with the t j f, u. match on Saturday:—Miss O. English v Miss Sharia nd, Mrs. Mark wick v. Miss M English. Miss Lawrence v. Miss Appleyard. Miss Scott v. Miss Sutton. Following ll iV the 5 dra^’for C grade playeis'-Miss M. Hintz v. Miss. Clark. Miss Adams v. Miss Wright, Miss Renbe no official match on Wednesday.

OTAHUHU LADIES’ CLUB \ bogev match for a trophy donated b V Miss E. Whiteley will be played by members of the Otahuhu Ladies’ Golf Club on Saturday, players to choose are the results of the second round of the championship: —Miss Mellsop beat Miss Richards. 5 and 4: Miss E Whiteley beat Mrs. Moffitt. 2 and 1. Miss Percy beat Miss Cutforth. 2 and 1: Miss Barton beat Mrs. Chapman. 6 and 4. PAPAKURA CLUB The first round of the Ryan Cup match, which was postponed last week, will be placed on Saturday by members of the Papakura Golf Club. MINIATURE HAMILTON COURSE From Our Oxen Correspondent HAMILTOX, Wednesday. Har. ilton will soon have a miniature nine-hole golf course in ideal surroundings and close to the town situated in the “basin'’ at the Hamilton Lake. At a meeting last evening, the Domain Board heartily approved the plans submitted by Mr. H. T. Gillies and decided to carry the proposals into effect at a future meeting. The estimated cost of the course is £225 15s. So far as is known no other Domain

Board in Xew Zealand possesses such a course and Hamilton, in the matter of miniature links, will probably pioneer ttvway in the Dominion. The site is close to the centre of the town, and its thrills as planned are so many that even at a very modest charge a round it shouid prove a payable proposition to the board In designing the course Mr. Gillies adopted the modern system of bunkering which aims at providing interest for good shots rather than penalty for bad shots The natural conformation of the ground In making the run has been used.

PUKEKOHE CHAMPIONSHIPS From. Our Own Correspondent PUKEKOHE. Today. The qualifying round for the Pukekohe Club's senior and junior championships to be played on Saturday are: Jobsos v. Drake, Roulston jnnr., v. A. Schlaepfer. Rawson v. Coyle, McWhirter v. Charlesworth. Pike v. Finlay, Wilson v. Foster. Snell v. Munro, Stuart v. Bockett, Shqri v. R. Schlaepfer, Maddison v. Mincher Kissling v. Johns. Hosking v. Sellar, Brosnahan v. Anderson, Spooner v ! Payne, Owen v. Gill.

PUPUKE CHAMPIONSHIPS The qualifying rounds of the senior and junior grades of the Pupuke Golf Club champion l ips over IS holes will te played next Saturday. The junior grade will be restricted to players with handicaps over 16. The following is the draw: Thompson v. Goldwater, Mills v. Short, Chambers v. Lane, Sheriffs v. McKenzie, Minogue v. Howie. Bennett v. Hunt. I> Clive Lowe v. Oliver, Buddie v. Johnston. Kings ford v. Saunders, Gould v Robinson. Malcolm v. Drower, Swanston v. McCorkingdale, Ansell v. Chisholm. C. F. Browne a . E. Close. Stemson v. Lush. Matthews v. Foster, Xorris v. Sellars, Grim wade v. Waterman, Hopkins v. B. Kingsford, Mowbray v. Taylor. R. Williams v. C. Kingsford. junr.. Stephenson v. A. W. Clark, J. Williams v. Black. post entries also will be receded.

HAMILTON CHAMPIONSHIPS From Our Oven Correspondent HAMILTON. Today. The first rounds of the senior and junior championships of the Hamilton Ladies’ Golf Club were played yesterdav. Results were:— Senior Championship.—Mrs. F. Mander beat Miss Focke, 6 and 5: Mrs. G. X. Gower beat Mrs. E. Bartlett, 1 up at the 19th hole; Mrs. T. A. Milroy beat Mrs. W. Batt. 8 and 7; Mrs. C. O. Bennett beat Mrs. D. Hay. 1 up. Junior Championship.—Mrs. X. Aitken beat Mrs. H D. Matthews, 1 up at the 22nd hole; Mrs. G. Primrose beat Mrs. McCracken. 6 and 5; Mrs. A. T. Atkin? beat Mrs. C. Taylor, 4 and 3; Miss A. Coventry beat Mrs. H. C. Ross, 8 and 7: Mrs. W. M. Horton beat Miss J. Templet 2 and 1; Mrs. A. English beat Mrs. R. F Hazard. 3 and 1; Mrs. P. G. Russell beaMiss Allen. 5 and 4; Mrs. C. Blundell beat Miss K. Wilson, 5 and 2. Consolation Match. —Mrs. C. Peterson beat Mrs. H. Griffiths. 2 and 1: Mrs. C. Matthews beat Mrs. A. E. Sandford, 2 and 1; Mrs. E. M. Masters beat Mrs. C. Hotson. 7 and 6: Miss D. Eyre beat Mrs. J. McXicol, 3 and 2: Mrs. X. X’. Ross beat Miss M. McLean, 2 up: Mrs. R. Rawlings beat Mrs. J. J. Standring, 6 and 5. The second round of the championships will be played on August 27. A bogey round will be played next Wednesday. The following members will play an inter-club match at Cambridge tomorrow: Mesdames F. Mander, C. O. Bennett, X. Batt, T. A. Millroy, D. Hay. L. Day, G. W. Gower, R. Guy, R. P. Hazard, A. English, G. Primrose. H. D. Matthews, E. J. Mears, W. J. King, N. Whitehouse. C. Matthews. C. Taylor and H. C. Ross, Misses Coventry and Stevens