GOLF.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 191, 26 May 1934, Page 2

GOLF.

SCOTTISH YOUTH’S SUCCESS. THE CHIEF BRITISH HOPE. LONDON, May 24. The Prince of Wales, who is captain of the Prestwick Golf Club, visited the links and was enthusiastically cheered by a large crowd of spectators. Interest to-day centred in four Americans left in the last 32, three of whom won their matches. A Scottish youth, McLean, became the national hero and the chief British hope for the title. The veteran American, Guilford, took early lead and was one up at the turn, but on the homeward journey McLean, playing superbly, dominated the match. He took four holes in> succession and won comfortably, having holed 15 holes in 62 to Guilford’s 66.

Dunlap accounted for Withered in a. poor game. Goodman scraped into the last 16 after being dormie 2. Little, won again and Wallace, a Troon artisan, continued his slaying of the famous, beating Fiddian. Wethered was one up on Dunlap at the fourteenth. He lost the next two when his nerve failed. He halved the seventeenth, taking three putts from six yards, and failed in a yard putt at the eighteenth. McCallum was dormie two against Goodman, but he lost the seventeenth and missed the winning putt at the eighteenth. ' Goodman’s luck deserted him in the fifth round against Leslie Garnett, an unknown youngster of 23, who often outdrove the American by 60 yards and holed a 20-yard putt for the victory. An unmannerly crowd, barracking for a local artisan, Wallace, contributed to McLean’s defeat.

DISGRACEFUL INCIDENTS,

YOUNG PLAYER IMPEDED. LONDON, May 25. The “Daily Mail” says there were disgraceful, incidents when 10,000 men and women did everything to prevent McLean from defeating Mai lace. They crowded around McLean until it was impossible for him to swing his club. They pushed him hither and thither, and cheered when he missed a putt or was bunkered, yet tins was the Glasgow youngster whom they applauded when lie defeated Guilford in the morning. McLean’s ordeal was worst ovei tne last four holes, when he was one down after being two up. McLean wlutefaced, fruitlessly appealed to the stewards and the referee for a chance Even Wallace’s request for fair play was ignored. # _. , Wallace, whose age is thirty, is an unemployed shipwright, worknm in a sawmill. He hopes to be sufficiency successful to get a professional ]ob. He will playi Francis, a milhonane ex Guardsman, to-morrow. >