KIRK GOLF CUP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1932, Page 7

KIRK GOLF CUP.

N.S.W. WIN FOURSOMES

Hornabrook and Silk Are Annihilated.

BLACK AND BRINSDEN 2 DOWN.

(United P.A.—Electric. Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. 1 At the end of the first day's play in the Kirk-Windeyer Golf Cup conLost New South Wales leads New Zealand by two matches to nil. The foursomes resulted: Terrier and . Thompson (New South Wales) defeated I Hornabrook and Silk (New Zealand) 11 ' up; Bettington and Withycombe (New I South Wales) defeated lilack and BrinsI den (New Zealand) two up. Ferrier and jfiiompson won the first two holes in their match. The next two were halved, the New Zealandcrs winning the fifth. The sixth was halved. The visitors were in trouble at the next hole, but Hornabrook sank a long putt for a half. At the short eighth the local players visited two bunkers, thus enabling the New Zealandcrs to square the match at that stage. New South Wales went ahead again at the tenth, Ferrier navigating a half-stymie. The New Zealanders then won two holes and were one up at the sixteenth. However, they lost the next two and went in to luncheon one down. During the morning Hornabrook was several times astray with his tee shots, but Silk recovered splendidly each time. Hornabrook was still playing his tee ushote badly and Silk was recovering splendidly. Thompson sank several very long putts, while the New Zealandcrs' putting was weak. The New South Wales pair eventually linished 11 up. The New Zealandcrs won the ninth in 4 to 5 and turned one down. Owing to the high wind the golf was poor. Bettington and Withycombe won the eleventh hole but they lost the next. They halved the thirteenth and won the fourteenth with a par three and the fifteenth, with a "birdie" four, to be three up. Black and Brinsden then won three holes in a row, their opponents taking three putts in each case. The New South Wales players increased their lead to four up at the twenty-fifth. The local pair were in trouble at the twenty-sixth, and the New Zealandcrs won in 5 to 0. The next was halved when Bettington missed an easy putt for a win. New Zealand got one back at the twenty-eighth, but lost it again at the next hole, when, after failing to get out of a bunker, they picked up. After twice being in bunkers at the thirtieth, New South Wales won the hole, and went to five up when .they won the long thirty-first in 5 to 6. Brinsden dispatched a great tec shot at the next, enabling his side to win the hole. The New Zealand pair also won the thirty-third and thirty-fifth, the intervening hole being halved. Although Brinsden failed to negotiate a deadstymio New Zealand halved the final hole. This match was evenly contested, the New Zealanders just failing at critical moments.