Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-07
tom NORRIS CUP
next GOLFING
fixture
Players Looking Forward to a
Keen Contest Although l0-
cal Course Has Low Par

The next important event in local
golfdom will be the Tom Morris com
petition, which will be played as
usual, June IS, over the course of the
Oahu Country Club. Golfers arc
looking forward with interest TO the
event, in which every club i'm the
Western Golf Association will prob
ably enter a team. The Oahu Coun-
try Club is up against hard propo-
sition in this competition, for many
Of the holes lack just few yards
Of being par 4, and the par for the
course is only 33, although this is
fully four strokes too low consider
ing the difficulties of wind and billy
ground.
The competition for the Tom Morris
Memorial Trophy is an annual con-
test of Is holes against the official
par of the course, open TO all clubs
enrolled in the membership of the as
sociation, to be played by teams OF
eight, all of whom must be amateurs
and members of the competing club
and bona fide residents of the district
covered by this association and be at
the time of. the competition twenty
AAfC tNoJ yCOtD vi oSC vi OtCI.
Each club will play over its own
course each year on June is. Tom
Morris birthGay. rnen the date of
June 18th of any year falls on Sum
day, the competition that year shall
take place on Saturday. June Is.
The club whose team returns the
best total result against the par of its
own course will be awarded the GUS
tody of the trophy for one year, and
each player Of the winning team will
De given an appropriate medal The
trophy will become the permanent
promperty of the club whose team
hasNbeen five times the winner of the
competition. not necessarily, however,
IN succession. The player who re-
turns the best individual result
among all competitors will be award
ed a gold medal.
There is no entrance fee for this
eimpetition.
A competition against par Is play
I'd In the same manner as one against
DOGGY, except that the figure repre-
seilting the par Of hole of given
length and against which the COM
petltors play is fixed solely by the
length of the hole and thus the par
u holes of similar length is uniform;
and, unlike the DOGGY does not vary
because OF other conditions. For in
stance, hole 3S5 yards in length may
nave Its DOGGY as 4 at one club, and
at another The par for a hole 3S5
yards In length Is absolutely fixed at
!, no matter what the topography OF
the ground may be or the Judgment Of
the club'c committee.
he Official distances of the as
socy kion by which the par scores Of
holes are computed are as follows:
Uphto 225 yds, inclusive. -. Par is 3
FROM ZIG to AIS yds., inc. Par is 4
From 426 to 600 yds., inc. Par is S
FROM 601 and upwards. Par is s
The eight contestants and eight sub
stltutes which have been selected by
the grounds committee to represent
the Oahu Country Club in the Tom
Morris event, are as follows:
Regulars-T. Gill, Fl. B. Giifard.
K. a. Cooke, George H. Angus, j. /. ID.
Greig. F. H. Armstrong, Frank Hal
stead. C. P. Morse.
Substitutes-Dr c. T. Smith, F. w.
klebahn. L. Redington, w. Simpson.
H. H. Walker, DR.. c.. B. High, c. S.
Weight, A Ewart.
Presidents Trophy.
A especial rule to govern play for the
presidents trophy has been announced
BY the grounds committee, as follows:
Rules OF the Western Golf Associa-
ton governing medal play shall govern
the competition, except that player
may indulge in practice and play
rounds II he so desires, before engag.
ing in the competition Once player
decides TO engage in the competition
he must declare his intention and re.
ceive from one of the club officers a
properly stamped and dated card, on
which only the first two rounds. played