GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 2

GOLF.

THE SLOW PLAYER. I Among tile nuisances of the golf course I is the very slow player, who is studious- ; ly oblivious to the obstinacy of his 'obstruction. He never asks the people behind him to pass him. In this he is, no doubt, obeying a dictate bom of experience. He knows that if he allows his followers on crowded links to head him oil, he may never be able to regain a position at all. The other couples will come scurrying up, determined to brook no interference, and he will gradually lind his own' match elbowed into a position of total detachment from the proceedings in general. With him it is a question as to whether he or those following him shall endure the torment of delay, and, not unnaturally, he chooses the others for the ideal. Almost as great a nuisance as the slowgoer is the very fast player, who, no matter with what degree of pact and plain-sailing you I may be moving round the course, seems to be for ever waiting for you to gel. out of range. Pity 'tis that both the.se players cannot give some thought to others, and strike the happy medium. SHERLOCK AT HOME. Some truly remarkable golf was seen at Stoke Poges in the opening half of the 72 holes' match for £SO a-side between .1. G. Sherlock (Stoke Poges) and Jack White (Sunningdale). By a wonderful display in the morning. Sherlock gained the tremendous lead of nine holes. His play during these first 18 boles was almost sensational. It is doubtful if such a display in an important match has ever before been seen. He accomplished the first nine holes in the extraordinary figures of 31, and he came home in 34, hi.-t round of 65 easily constituting a record for the course under match play conditions. In the course of the round lie had nothing over a 4, while he had five 3's on the outward and two coming home. At the fifth he pulled his tee shot into the rough, but recovered with a great effort, and at the 10th—a short hole, over the corner of a lake —he went over the green. With these exceptions, Sherlock's play was without blemish. The strength of his game was undoubtedly near the green, and his putting was so good that White scarcely ever had a chance. Sherlock actually won the first six holes in succession, and his opponent never recovered from this disastrous start; in fact, he did not win a hole until the l«th, when he got a 3 to Sherlock'* 4. In the afternoon the play was very even, and, in spite of the big lead against him, White went on playing a dogged and plucky game. At tho'end of the day Sherlock was still nine holes to the good, so doubtless the next English mail will bring news of his victory by a substantial margin. Sherlock's morning round was made up thuii;^, Out: 4 3 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 31 In: 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 34 Total 05 A PSALM IN GOLF. ' Tell me not in scornful numbers Golf is but an empty game, Once you've got round under eighty. Things seem never quite the same. Golf is real! Golf is earnest! Though the grave is not its goal; 'though perchance we leave behind us Divots, unrestored by time. ,•-"""' ' Divots, that perhaps another I May encounter with much pain; Let us then rememhe/. , v Turf should be replaced again, k Represent your cmb in matches, Take your part in friendly strife; He who fears the worst and ".scratches' Misses half the joy of life. Let us then be out and doing, Playing early, playing late; When a championship is brewing, Lesser things, like work, r/ms't waij For the second year in succession, and the third time in five -years, Guv Campbell has won the. silver crow' at the spring medal meeting at St. Andrew's Strangely enough, Campbell's winnin". wore on each occasion has been 82. Thi" is the Mr. Campbell whom the Hon M Scott defeated in the international match, England v. Scotland.