GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1921, Page 5

GOLF.

[NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. The ladles' medal match, which was to be played on the Nvw Plymouth links yesterday, ( has .»oen postponed until next Tuesday, waen I the best sixteen «ji-oas scorers will QualPy for i the championship. Wangan’.i defeated Waverley 'last Thursday by 6 games to 5. The final for the ETawera Patron’s <’ui>—three rounds cf medal play—. was played on Saturday afternoon. At the end of the first two rounds Ryan and Cox were leading with a nett score of 158 each, followed by Elliott 161, L. Quin, J. Quin, and Collins eaeh IC2. In the final round Ryan and Cox both went to pieces, and Elliott, | Playing a fine, steady game, -ame In the j ? 4^ ner ' with 239 ’ WBlker second with I | KIRKWOOD'S TRICK GOLF SHOTS. | London Sporting Life details some of the I things done in this direction by the Man of 1 Coif from Australia: “Joseph H. Kirkwood, the Australian and Zealand open champion, gave an exhtbl-( lion of some remarkable trick golf shots on the course of tbe London Country Club, Hen-' don. One of his most remarkable feats was • playing a niblick shot with so much back i "Pin that he was able to catch the ball in his ' outstretched hand without departing from his j original stance. Another interesting feat was' his playing of an ordinary right-handed iron elub In left handed fashion, the result being | that ho played the ball with the extreme end | of the back of the club, and in this case he 1 got a goodly distance. Some amusement was ' caused by Kirkwood's driving a ball from off the toe of the shoe of J. V. East, bis business manager One of his cleverest triexs 1 was teeing a second on top of that, and | then in turn teeing a third, so as to make I a column of three ba’ls. lie took his club in hand In th© ordinary way, and, to the astonishment of the onlookers, drove the mid- 1 die ball without touching either of the others, ' the uppermost one merely rolling peacefully I on to the ground.'*