GOLF

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 278, 15 April 1911, Page 7

GOLF

J) NGAMOTU CLUB'S TOURNAMENT. [' There are capital entries fpr the Ngar motu Club's annual tournament. ' Play will commence at 0 a.m. to-day with the Taranaki Amateur Championship and Teams' Match, combined with | a medal handicap. As there are 44 > entries, of whom ten are on the scratch ' mark, some very good and interesting play may be expected. Teams from the Hawera, Wanganui, Feilding, Manawatu and Ngatmotu Golf Clubs are ingOwing to the course being only iv nine-hole one, competitors are requested to be on their respective tees punctually at. the starting time. Play will be commenced at three separate tecs, viz., the first, third, and sixth. The following are the handicaps, and draws for the first round:— A. W. Gillies scr., I. Saunders scr., R. L. M. Kidston scr. G., Saunders scr., W. D. O'Cailaghan scr., | W. C. Weston scr. 11. T. Gillies scr., R. L. M. Kitto scr., I F. S. Johns scr. H. H. Ward scr., A. A. Stewart 4, L. Seifcrt 3. A. H. Glasgow 7, J. C. Glassford 8, A. I: Johns 10. W. Bewley 4, S. F. Tyerman 4, G. Ryan 4. L. Hansen 0, A. H. Steeds 10, W. B. Glasgow. Austin Bewley 4, H. C. Elliott 7, G. F. Preston <3. R. A. Gray .O, F. Seifert 10, E. W. Fletcher 10. •,. 'J. Paton 8, JI. J. M. Thomson 10, TI. 8.Armitage, 10. D. Hutchen 12, W. H. McLean 12, S. A. Parkes 12. E. S. Bayley 11, Fred. Jones 12, J. F. Miles 16. A. T. Spain 14, Geo. Grey 15, D. Coghill 12. S. W. Ashton 14, J. Power 12, M. J. Crombie 20. F. Smith 10, E. T. Morshead 20. The first seven groups will' start at . No. 1 tee, the eighth, ninth and tenth groups from No. 3 tee, and the last five groups from No. 6 tee. In the afternoon there will be a fresh draw for partners. THE CARLINGTON ROAD CLUB. The Carrington Road Golf Club open their season on Thursday, the 27th inst. Members of the Ngamotu Club have been invited to take part. The links are in very good order, several improvements having lately been effected. There is a movement afoot to change the name of the club from Carrington Road. The word "Tarahua" has been suggested as a suitable name, and is more euphonious than the one used at present. Tarahua, it might be explained, is the old Maori name .of a portion of the land on which the links are situated. DON'TS. There are more "Don'ts" in golf than there are in any other avocation of life. It has been estimated that in an ordinary drive from the tee there are about one hundred things which the great writers on golf have told us that we must not do, and these constitute the principal "Don'ts" in golf; but here are a few minor don'ts; — Don't be too polite. Don't be too sympathetic; golf is a combat. Don't be cast down. Don't be too elated. Don't put on airs; and, when the game is over, don't complain or explain. SEVEN AGES OF GOLF. All the world's a course, And all the men and women really golfers; They have their clubs, and subs, nnd entrance fees, And one man in his time plays many rounds At seven different stages. First the infant Fussing artd foozling in his nurse's arms; Then the enthusiastic schoolboy in his teens With shiny cleck and brassey (secondhand) Who takes his early round. And then the lover Sighing like a furnace over a bunkered ball Or foozled putt. And then the bachelor, Full of wild oaths and reckless like the bard, Jealous of others, keen to growl and quarrel, Seeking a golfing reputation Even in the bunker's mouth. And the senior, In wide round breeks and peaceful frame of mind, With beaming eyes, and bald about the pate, Full of quaint rules, and modern instances, And so he plays his part. The sixth stage comes, And now with grizzled clubs and wornout irons, With spectacles upon his pink proboscis, He drives, lie putts, is stymied, tries to putt While others take their knock. His withering form Goes gingerly along from hole to hole, Led bv his caddie. While Last Scene of all That ends the story (and my parody) In ripe old age, still on the same old game, Sans sight, sans skill, sans luck, sans' everything.