GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 124, 12 October 1912, Page 7

GOLF.

TARAHUA CLUB. On the Taralma links this afternoon a ladies' sealed handicap match will be played for a trophy presented by the captain of the club (Mr. Geo. Grey).

The season will be concluded next Saturday afternoon, v.lien driving, approaching and putting competitions will be held for trophies presented by the president (Mr. T. C. List) and Messrs. Hood and McOormick (of Auckland). The competitions will be stated on Thursday, so *» to enable Thursday players to compete.

On the following Wednesday, the 23rd inst., a social evening will take place at Messrs. May and Arruwsmith's, at which prizes won during the season will be presented. A start is to be made as soon as pos sible with top-dressing the greens and improving their condition generally.

I have a fair idea of what the ordinary British golfer would do with a newspaper, as did the American paper Golf lately, that Mr. John Ball, junr., had won the Royal Liverpool Golf Club's gold medal for the hundredth time.—Mr. J. C. Wilson in Court Journal.

A good many courses get along quite happily without any bunkers at all. Ashdown Forest is a case in point. Only a few days ago the fact was mentioned that when Mr. Abe Mitchell went to Hoylake for the amateur championship pf 1909 ha encountered a sand bunker for the first time in his life.—Mr. Guy L'Estrange, in the Pall Mall Gazette.

Under the new system of course architecture which have come into fashion there is. always some "casual ground" whore we can drop our ball. Even if the green fairway has totally disappeared under a waste of waters, a perfect archipelago of islands still rear their heads amidst the surging waves.—Mr. Guy L'Estrange, in the Pall Mall Gazette. Discussing the subject a short time ago with an ex-champion, I ventured the opinion that even the average professional in the land of the dollar made nearly as much money as a top-sawyer at home. "As much?" he said; "I can assure you that a middling sort of player in America makes more than the luckiest of us can obtain in this country."— Yorkshire Post.

Harry Vardon once played a remarkably fine round on a Midland course wnen he was enveloped in an overcoat (a light one, to be sure) and had nothing more formidable to use than a set of ladies' clubs; while James Braid, induced to play at Hastings when he was there on his honeymoon, accomplished a score of 68 in a bob-tailed coat, a stiff-ironed shirt and a high collar.;—J.P., in the Daily Chronicle. An old Scot, accustomed to play on the ever-dry, seaside courses, has invented a new sort of game. He wears high, water-proof boots, and before every shot tees his ball upon a tuft of grass. Even he, however, has his worries. He searched long one day for a ball which had gone straight over an obstacle to the green. Finally he found it three feet from the hole, and almost completely buried.—Leeds Mercury. Although J. H. Taylor, of Mid-Surrey, has won the open golf championship of England four times, and is now 41 years of age, he is evidently bent on doing more remarkable things. He and Edward Ray, of Ganton, were at the head of affairs at the conclusion of the fourth round of the German open championship at Baden Baden. They each had a score of 279 for the 72 holes, and so agreed to play another nine holes to decide the matter. Good ;.s Taylor played before, he now excelled himself, accomplishing the holes as follows:—2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 3, 3, giving him a 28. His rival took 34 strokes, so the honors went to the veteran, who hails from Westward Ho.