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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 295, 16 May 1914, Page 7

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NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. I The New Plymouth Golf Club will play • a bogey match on the.' Nga-motu links to-day. Members are reminded to read the local rules on the hack of the cards before going out this afternoon. The temporary enclosure behind No. 7 tee is '•ground under repair" when playing that hole, but is out of bounds when playing No. 11. The ground immediately in front of No. 13 tee is not out of bounds, the ground to the right going to No. 13 commjencing at the corner to the right of the ladies' thirteenth tee. WITIOKA CLUB. The members of the Witiora Ciolf Club will play «v bogey match to-day, post entry. THK LUST CARD. .Should a medal player be allowed to ' discontinue play in order to look for a lost score card? This point was recently debated at some length in an English golling journal. In'the case, under discussion two members of the Committee had been aware of the player's action, but had raised no protest, and the Club' Committee was aoked to decide whether the reason for the delay was satisfactory or not. It was held that the loss of ii score card wa.s quite a satisfactory reason, as the game-could not very well continue without it.. Moreover, the loss of the card, it was pointed out, was not the fault of the player, but of the scorer. It was laid down, however, that a player was not entitled to stop because he had left a club behind, as this was mere carelessness on the part of the player, \ THE DISPLACED BALL. Another knotty problem winch the .same, paper solved was as follows: After approaching, A's ball lies closs to the hole in : a line with B's ball, which lies three feet away with the hole exactly between the two balls. B putts, over-runs the hole, and knocks A's. ball further away from the hole than the position in which his (B's)-ball now lies. A has the option of replacing his ball or playing from whore it lies, lu the latter 'case he plays the lie, but may he i replace his ball, and then call upon B j to play two more? It was decided that A might replace his ball in the original position and call upon B to play, even! ;f, as may easily happen, the result of this procedure was to leave B "stymied." ~ ... '* i_ ... SOME DONT'S. (By -Mark Allerton, in the Observer.) .Such instructions as 1 have gained from text-books hasj almost invariauiy been of a negative kiml. The commonplace intellect finds it easier to understand what he ought not to do than what he ought to do. ,lust as the child is forced to a realisation of the moral and social code by first doing what is wrong, by being told not to do it again, and (as a last resort) by suffering because of a repetition of the offence, so is the golf beginner led, through tribulation and pain, to a knowledge of what is right. , In an old volume of an organ of the game I have come across a list of "Things to Avoid." Worded differently, they make up fourteen of the most serviceable ''Don'ts" that one may find. They would run as follow: Don't look at the top of, the ball, but at the right side. Don't draw the arms towards the body. Don't use a high tee. Don't take the club back too quickly. Don't make a perceptible pause on the up-strokc.

Don't press (i.e., don't try ta hit hfurdj until you are sutiiicd vou'can Wt rcctly). " -"5 Don't spend too much time waggling! your club, ' Don't strike the shoulder with the* club. V Don't overawing. You will get better.' results if your club does not paw tlt v horizontal. Don't sway the body. Don't drop the rignt shoulder. A great many line players do. Wait until' you are a line player before you" do. Keep a good hold of your cljjb. It.* is no excuse to any, "The club in my hand." You" hud no uusinett ,ttf| let it turn. ~"]§ Don't stand too neaf the ball. , a Don't turn the body before the club, fig 1 daresay it would not be difficult tiS compile a list of even more "Doit'*' than the above, and a sant exercise for a wet day would the drawing up of what one" be;icva» jtpj be the. ideal list. Brevity would haw, most points allotted to it, for if minds are burdened with an extCesWoii number of warnings we are apt to gWJ-o discouraged. That is just jwhere* "Ttfc people who tell us what to 'do iaj)s Pages and pages hav c been written,' telling us what to do with the swing, and as many about the swing. I. believe that all that ingtruji-'. tion could be bovrUUed into tbrofr'orJ ' four "don'U." * ' v J | Mr, Haultain, in his unique book «*»'. golf, give soriie two dozen "dontV,. , that refer to our mental attitude mm|, moral conduct. A selection of j are.—Don't hurry. Don't watch youx, opponent; you are playing your gang};; 1 let him play his. Don't lose your teqU. per. Don't watch the pair behindeven if they drive into You can.' complain afterwards. Doii't talk. Don't fuss. Don't fidget. Don't argued [Don't be cast <l«nvn. Don't be elate*/ , Don't put on airs. Don't complain oii . explain. .^ | Mr. Haultnin's li-st, it will be noted,. ' is calculated to oncourag.* the player W( wrap himself in his game in, a detached* and aloof pawner. This in enforced by' another "don't". to the effect that WB* should not be. too sympathetic; golf 'j» si combat. The virtue of concentration 1 - and selfccntrednOss is to be noted in all< great players. Whoever has seen MrJohn Ball pursue, his way silently round" the link*, undisturbed by the perform-, ance. of his opponent, will realise one of the ways in which Mr. Hall can waa*« down an opponent who has even obtained a long lead. Braid has confessed tlmtu when he played a stroke he occupies' the time while striding after the ball by thinking how the next ought to bo' played and hj» recommends his rcadefV to do the same. There mu,t be no falfc. . ing into a light discussion of i> by-clec* 1 tion or the state of the K rcen». lf' < your opponent wishes to talk, you must,'' as Mr. Haultain mildly suggests "edgo! away from him." Yon may not seek to ! silence him by violence, for that woulp% put you oir your g;une. '1 The complete golfer who follows this', advice ought to win a lot of his inatchtC 1 hem is just a chance., however, that ho? may experience a little dh'lieulty !»■, finding opponents.