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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 191, 13 August 1940, Page 14

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One of the outstanding performances m last Saturday's (golf was that of S. G. Smith and son, S. W., in Maungakiekie's four-ball ibogey. Several combinations went well, but the Smiths' card of 8 up was one too good for \V. X. Asmtiss and H. W. Brickell. S.G. had a let-up in Ins handicap recently from 11 to 13 and a return of form followed, for he has reached the final of the handicap match play event, the Bledwloe Cup. Iri the four-ball honours went to his son, who had a card of 79—14—65. Looks as if the "old 'un" will be gettinfi a stroke or two wihen Smith meets Smith. * * • * Most consistent player at Akarana thU season Is J. Linton (3), who won his second mutch piny event of the season when he defeated T. S. Conway (7) iu the 3(i-hole final of the Edwards trophy. Linton has been in I lie low seventies on several occasions and he just broke SO in the lirst round of the final, which . left him 1 up. His figures were better in the afternoon, and, after Winning the match at the sixteenth, 4 and 2, lie completed the round in 75. Conway was in a good position early in the match, for. after holing an approach for a li at the short fifth, to square, he won the eighth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth holes to become 4 up. Then Linton commenced a run of fours, which his opponent could not counter, losing no fewer than five out of the remaining six and being 1 down. Linton got command of the game early in the next round and was 3 up at the turn, which he reached in 39. Conway used his stroke to get one back at the eleventh, but could make no further impression, Linton winning the fifteenth with a good 4 and the short sixteenth with the standard 3. It was a very line performance of Linton's to win on top of his Coltmau Cup success. • • * • The Taylor P.owl match at Titirangi between C. S. Woods (.".) and K. \V. Cbristensen (0) was a battle roval, with sterling golf played by both, as evidenced by the stroke rounds, Woods 73 and Christeniien 7">. There were purple patches, too, Cbristensen retrieving a 3 down position after the lirst four holes with three birdies from the sixth—4, 2. 3—to square the game at the eighth, and then take the lead at the ninth with a 4, without using the first of his two strokes. Woods plaved only one weak hole, a C at the fifth, and was out in 36 to Christensen's 30. In the first five holes coming home Chrietensen slipped, a stroke against the scratch figures I

at the eleventh, but his. opponent got the 3 there ami a birdie at the twelfth-; h« hela his lead of- 1 up when both got throes at the fourteenth. After getting square again with a 4 at "Temptation," Christeneen sliced his tee shot into the rough at th« sixteenth, and that was the error which decided the match, the next two holes being halved In 5 and 4. It was really on th« greens that the match was won and lost, Woods holing everything in eight and Christensen not getting a break, which his play through the fairway merited. • • • • Another splendid match was that between A. N. Young and I>. Wakeman, a classic iron by Young to the seventeenth, which netted him an eagle 3, being the deciding factor, as It clinched the match 2 and 1, As in the case of the other pair. Young played better than his handicap of 4, hi* gross round being 75—38 and 37. Young was 1 up at the turn, and had increased the lead to 3 at the fourteenth, bnt when he required fives at the next two hole* Wakeman took the opportunity and reduced the margin to 1. Then came Young's grand shot to within four feet of the pin at the seventeenth. • • • • To lead the qnalifying play of the Pupiike championship, C. Howden played very sound golf for rounds of 72 nnd *7r>. and there were a few slips on the greens that robbed his effort of real brilliance. In the afternoon he would have scored equally as well as in the first effort only for a 7 at the tenth hole, bogey 4. Before he went to 'Varsity at Dnnedin Howden played at Puptike, but this is his first tilt at the championship. Strong iron play is a feature of his game. C. H. Palmer, one of the steady type, took second place with a second round of 72, and last year's winner, W. J. Thompson, and the runner-up, S. M. Trnscott, are nlso in the field. I'upuke has a number of young players who have made rapid progress this season, and they are likely to cause upsets in the match play. • • • • The Howey trophies contest is quite a novel four-ball event at Akarana and brings together a's partners players who might not otherwise have a game. A medal round id. played, from which emerge 32 competitors; a draw on the automatic principle Is made, for partners, with another draw for opponents. Best gross card oi the- day was that of Tax Smith, 73. His play to the greens has seldom been better, and had some of the putts he went boldly for, or some of the eight-footers gone down, he could have broken 70. As it was he wanted a 4 at the last for 71, hooked his drive into the trees and carded a 6. • • • • • Three 2's and a 3 at- the four ehort Iholeg by L. Knight was the feature of the four-bull bogey at Titirangi, which I Knight and R. B. Carr won with a card lof 6 up. This was their lead over the I Colonel when they reached the sixteenth itreen. There Carr went boldly for a 3 for another win and took 5. the hole being I lost, but Knight came to light again with a winning 4 at the seventeenth ; it appears that the honours of the combination were • • • • > ,J. I* McCoy- has shown that his two strokes reduction in handicap was merited by bis reeent play and he quite. overshadowed V. Masters in' winning the final of the George Cup. Masters incidentally having accounted for the captain's prize winner, H. Flutniey, in the course of the match play. McCoy's length IMR the tee rarely leaves him out of range of the two shotters with an iron. Occasionally he lets opportunities go begging by pulling his mashie ami niblick shots ito the green, a fault which would J>e overcome by a straight left arm at Impact. -. rjril • .. • • At Otah-nbu A. R. Jones at last got the reward; of-his. rery fine golf of the past couple of months. He has bad numerous cards at 74, bat on Saturday went one .■better to lead tne Held with 1 up in the bogey competition. Hard hitting Han ev Bell lifted the captain's prise with a sound win over A. & Fearnley.