ON THE LINKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 100, 1 May 1933, Page 12

ON THE LINKS.

PENNANT MATCHES CONTINUED. SURPRISE AT AKARANA. FINE SCORING IN COMPETITIONS. i Conditions for golf were ideal on ' Saturday, when the pennant matches were continued, and. competitions held ' by the various clubs. The match which had most bearing on the A grade pennant was that between Akarana and Titirangi, played on the former's links. Honours ended all square, each side winning three games, and three others finishing all square. Glendowie had their first match, and on their own course defeated Maungakiekie, B. J. Smith, Akarana, repeated his provincial championship defeat of H, Brinsden, Titirangi's leading player, and played a fine round of 73, three strokes better than his opponent. Good golf was played in the other matches. In finishing all square with S. Hazelden, E. G. Tallis again proved what a resourceful player he is. He was five down at the turn and Hazelden looked assured of a win. L. Minogue played a good round of 76, to defeat T. A. Goulding, while the meeting of V. Baker and the youthful J. Young, provided one of the best games of the day, Young getting a nice lead of two up at the first three holes, but Baker turned on good golf, wiped out the margin, and took the lead. It was not until the seventeenth hole that Young squared the match, and getting his four at the last hole, where his opponent failed, be won the match. Young duffed some of his approaches, but his round of 76 was a meritorious , one. In the B grade of the pennant competition North Shore, who have already defeated Pupuke, scored a win over Otahuhu. The match was played at Otahuhu. and the visitors won by six games to three. In the other B grade pennant match at Titirangi, the home team made a clean sweep of the visitors, Pupuke, winning all the nine games. Some splendid golf was played at Middlemore in the first round of the E. R. Bloomfield Bowl, posseseion of which is decided by the best two out of three rounds. Though the low handicap players are at a disadvantage in this medal competition, they acquitted themselves well. W. S. Ralph, A. Donald and R. D. Wright all played better than their handicaps, with rounds of 72, 73, and 75, respectively, but these fine performances were not equal to the net rounds of several more liberally handicapped players. Ralph, in consequence of his round, had his handicap of one reduced, and he now has the distinction of being the only scratch player in the club. The best net score of the day was 68 by W. B. Lusk, a first-year member. At Maungakiekie H. G. Vivian, the New Zealand cricket representative, showed that he is liberally handicapped on an 18 mark. He won the medal competition with a net 67, and was followed by a handful of other players who improved on their handicaps. The position of the teams in the pennant matches at present is as follows. One point is allowed for a win :— A Grade.—Titirangi IJ, Akarana IJ, Glendowie 1, Auckland 0, Maungakiekie 0. Glendowie and Auckland have played only one match and the other three clubs two. B Grade. —North Shore 2, Titirangi B 1, Auckland B 1. Pupuke 0, Otahuhu 0. Auckland B and Otahuhu have played only one match and the other three clubs two.