DECISIVE WIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 245, 17 October 1933, Page 14

DECISIVE WIN.

OPEN GOLF TITLE. STERLING PLAY BY MOSS. ACCURACY AT SHORT HOLES. E. S. Douglas put his initial tee shot out of bounds at the start of the play-off lor the iNCW Zealand open golf title yesterday morning, anil gave his opponent, E. J. Aloes, two strokes start at tlie Gist hole, and slipped another stroke at the long fifth. -Viler that he never seriously threatened to deprive Moss ot the title. Xhere were many in tne gallery, which was surprisingly small, who were expecting to see the Hashes of brilliance that had brightened JJougias game earlier in the tournament, but it never came. Douglas, it will be recalled, gave Moss live strokes start when the fourth and linal round ot the open was commenced, and caught him at the ninth, after a spectacular nine holes played in 33. Mosis played practically faultless golf, and his rounds ot 74 and 72 were sterling performances. Analysing the day's play, Moss' accuracy at the four short boles stands out. ile obtained the bogey 3 at each of them in both the rounds, and this accounted for 4 of his 9 strokes advantage at the end of the day. in the afternoon Douglas was bunkered at the short fourth and seventh, and took five at each. At the fifth holes on each round he slipped a stroke, Moss chipping three feet closer in the morning to hole a birdie four, and Douglas missing a six-footer. Jn the afternoon Moss, after a poor run into the green, retrieved one of his few mistakes by holing a 35-foot putt. Moss is noted for his ability to hole long putts on his own course at Middlemqre, and he gave another sample of his skill when he found the can at the twelfth in the afternoon with an eight-yard one, when just off the edge of the green. The most spectacular effort of the day was a three by Douglas at "Tlie Wrecker." He occasioned some comment when he played an iron for his second, but the fact that he reached the green justified his preference for this club over a wood. When Moss had missed a four-footer for a 4, as he hud done in tlie morning, Douglas earned a round of applause by judging a borrow of about three feet and holing a fifty-footer. This, however, still left him 7 strokes to the bad, and before the next five holes were completed Moss had increased !iis lead to 9 as the result of a four at Temptation, where Douglafl failed to carry the gully and took 5, and another 4 to 5 at tlie seventeenth.

Moss' afternoon round wan 72, and hie opponent's 77, their respective aggregates being HO ami 100. Ui.s performance yesterdny showed that he wus unlucky not to score an outright win in the original play.

WHAU VALLEY CLUB. Tho finals (if the Whan Valley championships were pla.vMl (luring the week-end, the senior titli> K"i»K to Cunuell and tin- junior event. 1o GooOwin. Council bent Glllesple, <> and 0, while Goodwin beat Morrish, 3 uutf 1. GLENDOWIE CLUB. Tim final of Hie Glendowle Club's rhnnipionshlp, between \V. I-. Cole and .T. E. Steilnian, resulted in a win fur Cole, 1 up.