GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 71, 2 July 1910, Page 7

GOLF.

(By "Cleelv").

The Ngamotu championship is set down for the 23rd July. At Ngamotu to-day a medal handicapfor Mr. Taylor's prize and the first round for Hood's <:lub will be played. The tie for the final of the* Ngamotu trophy and the tie for -Rev. Evan's

trophy will also be played off. Next Saturday will be mixed foursomes, entries for which close at 4 p.m. on Friday. McCoraick, the Auckland professional, will be in New Plymouth early in August. An effort is being made by the Carrington Road Club to secure his 'services for a .week or so.

At a special meeting of the Hawera Club on Saturday last, it was decided to start a fund for the purchase of Bayly Park. The idea is to vote a sum from the general fund of the club annually. As the new fund would he interest earning, it is hoped to raise money that would go far towards the purchase of the property by the time the lease expires. Mr. R. Spratt was appointed treasurer, vice Mr. Chalmers. There was great disappointment among members of the Carrington Road Club on Thursday when word was received that Waitara were not coming. Every preparation had been made for the I match —the new pavilion had been made [ ready, the ladies had prepared a sump--1 tuous repast, and the greens had been i put in splendid order. As it happened, the weather, the appearance' of which was responsible for the non-appearance of the visitors, was perfect for golf, and the large number of players present indulged in practice games, the afternoon tea, dispensed by the ladies adding to the enjoyment of the afternoon. A remarkable occurrence is reported to have .taken place"\at Saltford links, Bristol (England), establishing a record, i Mr. A. J. Gardner holed at the sixteenth green with his tee shot. Two ladies were also playing, and before Mr. Gardner had reached'the seventeenth tee Mrs. Jackson played to the sixteenth and also holed in one. On the Now Plymouth Carrington road links the "Gully" (193 yards) has been done in two, one player from a drive landing the ball in a liandy position, enabling the player to ; hole out in the next stroke. On the I Ngamotu links it is no very uncommon thing for the "Coffin" to be done in two. A curious thing happened to a Palmerr ston player on Saturday. In approaching to the fifth with a high mashie shot the ball first hit a bunch of leaves on the top of a cabbage tree, the ball dropped and with it another perfectly new ball. Something similar happened' at the Carrington road links last Saturday, when a player, thinking his ball had lauded in the trees near the teeing position for the "Mountain" hole, climbed up and found in a fork of a tree, not his owji ball, but another. He afterwards discovered that his own ball had reached the, > paddock: across tho road, in a. ; handy position to the hole. One of the most wonderful things about the golf of Braid, Taylor, Vardon and Herd is the state of almost mecham- ■ cal accuracy to which they have brought | their driving (writes a Home correspondent). During their recent tour ni Sootland, they played 306 tee shots and there was never a foozle. Most professional* of note have the knack of rriakiiKr driving look absurdly easy. lime after timefthev sent, the bfill 200 yards or move down "the middle of the course, and with such happy unconcern that the onlooker might be justified in thinking that thev were rather bored by the necessity of going! through such a formal- > itv Nevertheless, it is remarkable that all these shots should have 'been made by tho quartette without the

i « *;*■■ l semblance of a miss. There is «a* !&•"'<»\ ! pression that in the long game am»>-' teurs can still hold their own with .flu/ ■ Braids and Taylors, but a plea of lUffl- >V cient reason for assuming the virtue ' would foe hard to prove. The ]»8a& ■'>■ professionals have become dHvinsvEJltoV, * \ n\ata. It is evident that the Ifcy :jat*'i," Taylor, Vardon and Herd is not y&£#Bv'!'2 Oae or the other is constantly ajspiaynur *,:,"■* a mood of invincibility, and, '■'t6*wp'%4 younger men, the most worrying '.tttfatf &* must be the fact that it is v v same one who predominates for "!v time. They may get three of tie chamr 4 - pions under for a week, but the xjtfjer.■■&. bobs up serenely at the head of afiW»i.\!••' Meanwhile, the young school, as Xtifi*'-"* heard Ball, Duncan, Mayo and ftobstm.,'■'> described, are not of «ueh tender-yeara as to command sympathy because of -i,:' their, extreme youth, . . y.'