GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 89, 31 August 1912, Page 7

GOLF.

TARAHUA CLUB. The qualifying round for the championship for Thursday players has been postponed till next week. The Saturday men play their preliminary to-day. NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. For to-day's four-ball bogey handicap match the following are the drawings and handicaps:—J. Paton (2) and J. C. Nicholson (20) play ■V. Elliott (8) and K. B. Bain (14); F. S. Johns (1) and Stowe (15) play E. S. Bayley (7) and A. Standish (14); H. 11. Ward (2) and Bloxam (18) play W. Bewley (2) and Grant (18); E. Bary (2) and J. D. Seott (14) play A. 11. Steeds (5) and S. Burgess fl4); W. C. Weston (scr) and T. P. .Anderson (15) play C. H. Weston (5) and D. Ilutton (20); A. Bewley (sPr) ahd Seldon' ''(lS)'. |>laV Armitage (8) and F. Ilonan (15). Next Saturday, the first round of the championship will be pjayed. the draw being as follows:—.Johns v. W. Bewley, W. C. Weston v. A. Bewley, Ward v. Haslam, MeCord v. Bary. These matches should provide some very close and exciting finishes and considerable interest is being taken in them. On Thursday another match for the Thursday Cup will probably be played; this time against bogey.

Work on tho new - Jinks. is proceeding satisfactorily, although the exceptionally bad weather for the last two or three months has considerably interfered with the various works in 'hand. The new caretaker's residence and elub tea-room are now almost out of the builder's hands, and the former should be ready for occupation within the next few days. In order to provide a satisfactory watersupply for the new buildings, the committee has decided to sink a well and erect a windmill, and it is anticipated that little trouble will be experienced in getting water at a reasonable depth. The annual meeting of the Ladies' Golf Association will be held at Nelson on Monday evening, uul the club's delegate. Miss Bewley, will then endeavor.to. arrange for the holding of the ladies' championship tournament on the chili's new links in l!>lli, when it is hoped that the fonrse will iie-in qaiitte good enough order for such an event.

THE PERFECT GOLFER. , I am rather inclined to the belief that tm shall not discover this perfect golfer (says a writer .-in-sin-exchange). | We do not know what he is for one thing, and if we saw him we should not recognise him. for we are unfamiliar with the type. If he ever is discovered, I think we shall find a person who plays for the love of the game alone; one who, no matter what his opponent's handicap may be, is always prepared to play a single or make one in a foursome. He will be a player who is conscious of his own limitations, one who appreciates good play on the part of his opponent, whilst depreciating his own good fortune. He will be a player who, on being laid stymie that prevents him halving a match, will reply to your murmur of regret that it. is all in the game and must be borne uncomplainingly. lie will insist on a further search when you have decided to give up looking for a ball, tho result of an erratis drive. He will sympathise, in no hypocritical spirit, with your feeble efforts and take your half-crown with genuine regret All these things -will,be found in the ideal player, and when found he should be placed in a museum and a charge made for admission, for he will represent that rarest thing on this planet to-day—a perfect golfer.