GOLF.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 155, 14 April 1936, Page 2

GOLF.

CANTERBURY AMATEUR TITLE. GOOD WIN BY C. J. WARD. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Playing very steady golf—and the only competitor to do so—O. J. Ward had no difficulty at all in winning the Canterbury amateur championship by 13 strokes from R. G. Arnould. The two final rounds were, played at the Christchurch Golf Club’s, course at Shirley yesterday, and Ward returned 73 in each. The next best gross score was 75 by Arnould in the afternoon round. Ward also won the Ladies’ Challenge Cup, for the ’ best gross score returned in any one round of the championship. DUNEDIN CHAMPIONSHIP •DUNEDIN, April 13. In the final of the amateur golf championship K. Ross beat T. B. Ferguson 1 up at the nineteenth. Ferguson was dermie 1 going to the eighteenth, but Ross .squared the match and, won the nineteenth in par figures. SOUTHLAND CHAMPIONSHIP. INVERCARGILL, April 13. The Southland amateur golf championship was retained, by J. G. Niccoi (Queen’s Park Club, Invercargill), who defeated R. A. Wilson (Invercargill) m the final, one up at the nineteenth.' Both did 18 holes in 77. SOUTH, AFRICA’S PRODIGY. The usual array of golfing talent from overseas is expected to compete in the British championships. Mrs Glenna Collett Vare is coming at the head of an American women’s team, and Lawson Little has announced that he intends to defend his title in the amateur event. In addition, among the American professionals expected are Gene Sarazen, Macdonald Smith and T. D. Armour. There are also to be other interesting personalities including A. D. Locke who 4s South Africa’s representative appears to be no less a prodigy than was Bobbie Jones when he astonished the golfing world at the age of 17. Locke is one year older, but at this age even Jones had accomplished nothing so remarkable as the young South African, who holds both open and amateur titles of his country. If the South African Golf Union accept the invitation of St. Andrew’s to send a touring team, Locke will undoubtedly be at the head of it, but, in any case, it is understood that he has arranged to stay several months in Elngland. If Locke can bea£ the whole of the South African professionals, including Sidney Brews, who ranks among the world’s leading players, he must be exceptionally gifted. It is unfortunate, however, that his first experience of a championship in this country, as it was in the case of Jones, will be at St. Andrew’s. Jones was so perplexed by the rolling fairways and the vastness of the green that he tore up his card and retired. In fact, he went home declaring that the course was the worst he had ever played over. Later, when he came to know it, he said it was the best. I am afraid Locke wilt find it a very severe test. . . Another interesting visitor is to come from Australia. T)iis is James Ferrier, the son of the secretary of the Manly Club, New South Wales. He is 20, and he holds the New South Wales open championship.. He won this in amazing style, playing the four

rounds in 67, 66, 70 and 64. His total of 266 was not only 16 lower than that of any other player, but it broke every record for a 72-hole competition. Ferrier stands 6ft. 2in., and when only 16 he carried off the New South Wales amateur title. He has also held the open and amateur championships of Queensland.