FINAL HOLE THRILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 244, 14 October 1940, Page 13

FINAL HOLE THRILL.

DRAMATIC TOUCHES IK SECOND ROUND.

The Akarana. final was not without its dramatic touches. There wae a sensational ahot by Culle'n at fihe first hole in the afternoon after a hooked second" which left him in a position where he coukl hardly see the green. He jplayed' the"shbt dead to the pin and won.rthe hole,rdespitß JohnT ■ton's orthodox 5; up'. toe 'centre. But Johnston 4iad hie _ _ ~ At the fifteenth hole,": where Johnston was dor my A-.-'ftp, V--both.; flayers were bunkered. Cijflen*-recovered to the green, but the bunker to the long grite the green. He managed and reach the edge o£Mthe. green,' then to hojp a iPHK putt for ... - .. On the whole _ Johnston played the better all round golf;;'and. except tor the early: part of tha second round jic- was -tln pacemaker. A strong wind swept, tha'-ooursaazufthe golf was only fair in the morning, both players requiring about SO. The contestants, however, provided an object lesson for . slow-players Dy completing the round in less than two hours. 1 , • _ When the twelfth hole had, been played Johnston was 2 up, whiai he tart, through CuUm»» accuracy at -the two short holwi, 'the ■ thirtetntn and sixteenth, which he won-with a 3 wid 2. \ Following his surprise *b -at the. first hole in the second round Cullen increased his lead to 3 up whanJbhiiatta -at th 4 next. Putting lapses cost Cullen thf next two and tha game was square. • When. Johnson won the sixth, seventh*arid eighth holea-.hVgpt a*rlp en the game. - U was.' iup »t ;the tup ,te»- 3" at to 4. Then at the Bhort was bunkered aM -JofeatMi; won the hole in CO !S this season and started on a handicap ana tt now down to 9. Against rW* home in 37 in the first round; tpsbeww. ?JgjAfter nine more holes hp hag increased the. lead to 5 up, and eventually won 5 and 3. • The junior championship was won :pw-.Sr. C, Birkenhead, who beat J. C. Fair 7 and i« _ The lather and son C grade final betwe«i G. G. Ashley, and C. Ashley saw the father wore a popular victory on the eighteenth green. He was 1 up when the seventeenth had &ecn played :and It looked as if a. 5 would do for the final hole. There e: Ashleymiss-hit his second, but made an unexpected recovery wWih left him dead. G. c. was not to be outdoqe, for, after reaching the green in three, he holed a 15-footer for the necessary half .to prevent the match going to the. nineteenth. T - - - • -----

Dtm-CLUB FIXTURE.

Team*' representing the Orakel Jnd Pupoke •tabs played a match during fte. week-end. rne lattar winning by 11 games to 9." following were the; results, Orakel names being mentioned Morning Play Rhodes and 15. Chappell H. Randrup and W. J. Thompson, X and 1: «JCrisp and A. Cook lost to J. Drought .and C-H-Palmer, 2 and 1; S. Nicholas and S. Turbott beat W. J. Skelton and Purness, 3 and 2:. N. Dqnovan and" A. Bmellte lost to J." How«|en"*"<* Taylor, 3 and- 1;T. Giliwater andO. EnjEst wafr to B. Watson and D. .Lamb, 3 and .1; M- Birch and S. Robertson- beat A. - Service -B. G. Foole, 3 and 3; U. Lonsdale and J- Pahey lost to P. E. Mason and W. E. King, 3 and t; B. Obee and A. Moore and C. Jaggs and C. Ardlsy. aU square;- D. Munro and C. McCarthy beat E. T. Brown and N. Chtswell. 4 and 3; 1%. Satchell and F. Rabone lost" to G. C. Malcolm and Paul, 1 down. Afternoon play: Rhodes and Chappell beat Rswbup and Thompson, 3 and 3; Crimp and oocfe tort to prought and Palmer, 2 and 1; Nicholas 9T)d Turbott- beat Cuthbertson and Anderson, 2 and 1; Donovan and Smellie lost to Howden and Taylor. *2 * and IV Goldwater and Ernest lost to Watson and Lamb, 2 and 1; Birch and Watsop and Service and Foots, all square; Lonsdale and .F*hey beat Mason and King. 3- up; Obee and Moore lost to Jaggs and Ardlsy, 1 down; Munro and McCarthy beat Brawn and Chiswell, 2 and 1; Satchell and Rabone lost to Malcolm and Paul, 2 down. , A combined Stableford bogey mateh was played in conjunction, resulting in a win for D. S. Lamb" aii^'ft."Watson, with a score of 64.- .The same pair won a four-ball bogey scramble with a score of 4 up.

PATRIOTIC TOURNEY.

The sum of £«0 was realised as % result of a toiitriey staged yesterday brittle Titirangl Golf Club. The winners of the principal events aggi-frflg' atitotprt, c. JiM»?n; men* BtaWeford. 11. o. Tfppenden. after a tie with C. Calloway. A. Fairturn andC: S. O. Woods; mixed §^gjjjg (r b «»w tvwvm**- B - Copy* sad lErs,