GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1926, Page 6

GOLF.

THE ENGLISH SEASON. MISS WETHERED AGAIN A PARTICIPANT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Oct. 7. Owing to the absence of Miss Joyce Wethered from the championships as well as the tournaments, it has been a rather dull season for women’s golf. Aftei- being mobbed by ten thousand people at Troon in 1925, Miss Wethered came to the conclusion that it would be better- if she dropped out of the game for a time, and she has not made a single public appearance since her unhappy experience on that occasion. She is, however, to play in the mixed-four-some tournament this month. But Miss Wethered has not lost any of her .interest in golf, even if she has spent most of her time playing tennis and fishing this summer. She has attended all the men’s championships, and she frankly admits that, she was fascinated by the style of Bobbie Jones. Indeed, she declared that she was tempted to remodel her swing on that of the American amateur. Possibly she learnt something from watching him. If there was a flaw in Miss Wethered’s game it was a tendency to cut her tee shots. She lias now got rid of this, and her sister players declare that she is overwhelming in the long game.

Miss Cecil Leitch had no difficulty in winning the championship, but she,, too, has not figured often in the tournaments. Indeed, like Miss Wethered, she did not enter for the English championship, which is at present in progress. In these circumstances the event lost a great deal in competitive interest. For, except for Miss Wethered and Miss Leitch, women’s golf at present is sadly lacking in personalities. Miss Wethered won this championship five years running, and, on dropping out last season, the title was secured by Miss Dorothy Fowler, a powerful player whose length from the tee is a big. asset. • Miss Fowler was now the favourite, but, as so often happens in the case of favourites, she was knocked out in the first round. Curiously enough, her conqueror was a second cousin.

One of the most promising competitors was a sixteen-year-old girl, Miss Enid Wilson, who is already champion of her county, Derbyshire, this success following her victory in the girl’s championship a year ago. Though she wears her hair hanging down her back in pig-tail fashion, Miss Wilson has the strength of a girl several years her senior, and she is also well endowed with nerve and confidence. But after three fine wins, she was beaten by Miss Joy Winn, the beaten finalist last season. The championship was only in the middle stages at the time of writing.