GOLF

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 324, 10 June 1911, Page 7

GOLF

TARAHUA CLUB. On Coronation Day a match will be played between the Thursday and Saturday players of the Taralma Golf Club. As both sideß are about equal in play, this should prove an interesting match. Any player among the first sixteen on the ladder who will be unable to plav is asked to notify one of the match committee on or before the 15th. The following are members of the match committee: Messrs. J. H. Hempton, R. H. nnfireo K Onnkp W. Perham.

Mr. Lloyd-George has entered for the Parliamentary Golf Handicap. There are worse golfers in the House than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but few more enthusiastic. He has to his credit, for example, the feat of having done the seventeenth hole at Nice in one stroke. ■Eight years ago, Mr. Lloyd-George took part in the Parliamentary Tournament at Deal, and in the qualifying round of 18 holes against bogey he returned a card of 17 down, having succeeded, with a handicap of 74, in halving one hole. His score pointed to a fondness for big figures, which he has since endeavored to justify with more or less success. List year's Parliament Golf Handicap was won For the third time by Mr. Balfour. In spite of his victory, the ex-Premier was provoked into using unparliamentary language. Missing a chance of becoming one up. he exclaimed: "Bother! I'd like to have been dormy on this brutal bogey!" The present Prime Minister is also a zealous- member of the golfing fraternity. He once declared at a public meeting that, if lie had devoted as much time to learning languages us ! to learning golf, he would be one of the i most accomplished of linguists. Lord Gladstone takes a lot of beating on the links, although, on the two occasions when he looked like winning the Parliamentary Tournament, he was obliged to scratch. Mr. Churchill is making slow but steady progress at the game, and Mr. Alfred Lyttelton is now devoting to it ■much nf'the zest that he used to give to cricket.