GOLF TOURNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 264, 7 November 1932, Page 5

GOLF TOURNEY.

N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS. AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL TITLES. (By to "Star.") TRENTHAM, this day. There was fine weather for the fourth day of the New Zealand golf meeting at Heretaunga, where the amateur and professional championships were commenced this morning. In the former there are C 4 players drawn from original entries, while the professional division comprises the players who finished in the first sixteen places for their class in the open event, which A. J. Shaw won for the fourth consecutive year (besides which he had been successful in 1926, Sloan Morpeth intervening in 1927). Each round is over 36 holes, and the positions in the first round after the first eighteen holes were:— Amateur (champion, Rana Wagg).—M. R. Moore, 4 up on ~BL.. E. Troufcbeck; B. M. Silk, 8 .up on T. R. McGregor; R. Wagg, 1 up on A. E. Guy; E. L. Bartleet (Auckland), 5 up on J. C. Marchbanke; L. D. Hurst, 3 up on P. Savage; J. B. Parker, 3 up on J. Dolph; W. E. Gregory, I up on C. B. Thomas (Glendowie),; C. A. Seymour, 4 up on. G. T. Dawson; K. Ross, 1 up on R. G. Hayward; A. G. Sinie, II up on C. N. Jacobsen; A. R. Blank, 6 up on P. G. Whitcombe; A. D. S. Duncan, 3 up on E. H. Liddle; J. L. Petley, 1 up on J. F. Pym; B. J. Smith, jun. (Akarana). 3 Tip on L. J. Minogue (Pupuke); P. W. Blundell, 3 up on J. G. Dick; W. K. Cook, 2 up on K. C. Ward; E. 0. Hales, 2 up on W. C. Wynne (Hamilton). H. A. Black, 5 up on A. E. Eketedt; J. Millard won from W. S. Ralph (Auckland) by default. Sixty-four Competitors. There are 64 entries for the amateur, including the Aucklandexe , Bartleet, Jacobsen, Basil Smith and , Minogue. Ralph did not make the trip, his opponent, Millard, having a bye. The favoured competitors are Brian Silk, Arthur Duncan, the Black brothers, Millard, Sime, K. Rosa and Collins. The feature of the morning play was Silk's round of 69. This was the best performance of the tournament, being three under the scratch score of the course, and one over par. Sime, drawn against Jacobsen, also played a eplendid round of 70, giving him a commanding lead of 11 up.

A. D. S. Duncan was very uncertain from the tees, but his 7iiaßterly inashie pitch to the pin enabled him to keep his opponent going. Duncan was two down at the turn, won the next two, lost the twelfth, won the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth, halved the sixteenth, von the seventeenth, and halved the eighteenth, to be three up. He was under the bank at the fifteenth, but pitched a oeairfJJ, to win with a three. He was hampered by trees at both the seventeenth wd eighteenth. His recovery at the eeven teenth was .perfect. He en 0 " 1" the eighteenth, but missed a short putt recovery &. and he fell into some .bad errors.