GOLF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 209, 4 August 1937, Page 10

GOLF.

TITAHI v. NAPIER. CHALLENGE LODGED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 4. N. W. Parker, of the Titahi Club, recently wrote to R. Hobbs, of the Napier Club, forwarding a challenge from Titalii to Napier for the Wilson Cup. A reply has been received from the Napier player in which he states that the Napier Club would be onty too pleased ’to have a match with Titahi if the rules governing the Wilson Cup contest permit. Ho understood that the cup was originally donated for competition between teams from the Napier, Ppverty Bay, Wairarapa, Manawatu and Wanganui districts. However, Titahi’s challenge had been referred to the Hawke’s Bay district golf committee. Hobbs stated that the Napier team which recently successfully defended the Wilson Cup against a challenge by Wanganui consisted of 12 players with handicaps of 5 or under. GOLF CONTROL. DOMINION COUNCIL MEETS. Lengthy consideration was given by the council of the New Zealand Golf Association at its monthly meeting this week to the laying down of conditions to obtain in New Zealand regarding actions which will make a player ineligible to compete in amateur competitions, and it was resolved to draft out the proposed conditions and submit them to advisory committees for their report and recommendations. It was reported that the championship programmes are now in the printer’s hands, also that the making of a permanent scoreboard for championship meetings is well in hand. Two new Canterbury clubs. Pleasant Point and Waitikiri, were admitted to affiliation.

It was reported that the number of visits paid by the association's travelling professionals this season is already more than double the 1111111301' carried out last season, and this was considered satisfactory evidence that tjie tuition is appreciated by affiliated clubs. The secretary renorted that the list for the King George Memorial Fund had been closed, and that the total amount forwarded to the Prime Minister was £560 18s sd. It 1 was decided to offer the New Zealand Andies’ Golf Union the usual annual grant of £IOO. The following standard scratch scores were confirmed: Aorangi, 66; Hororata, 70; Otorohanga, 70; Patea, 72; Purua, 73.