MISSED TWO-FOOTER STOPS GOLF FINAL FROM GOING TO 19TH

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 3

MISSED TWO-FOOTER STOPS GOLF FINAL FROM GOING TO 19TH

(Special.) KOTOHUA, Thursday. I There was an anti-climax to a stirring final in the lji.toiila ladies' open go'.i | ehainpion.-hip this altciiioou, which was won 1 up h\ .Mis. !!. C. Cook (Wanganiii). I, Her opponent. Miss K. O'Sullivan, o; '< Itaweia. had had a long cha.oe fioin the j seventh lmle. aitei which she was always 1 one or two down: it appeared that only j one of thone breaks which often conic in golf would save the situa'.iou for her. > Apparently it had come at the l ist two i holes when .Miss O Sullivan was dormy - down. On the swenteenth green she ran ] d«wu a 30ft putt for a after Mi.-. Cook ; had made bet certain with her appiouch 1 putt. That lung putt prevented Mis. j' Cook taking the title at that hole, and | when she took tour In teach the last green and had played live to Mis< O'Sullivan's i throe, it appeared that the Hawera playoi | would f<|tiai e the match, and that it would ' go on to tiie nineteenth. I Miss O Su'iii\an just missed a fivc-yardei j for a 4. but to the astonishment of the ] gallery tailed with a two-foot leturn. tinhole being halved in 0. Mrs. Cook was bunkered with her drive and second shot. J ( lose as the 2ii.it. !i was. Mis. Cook ! tlioi ough'.y deceived the win. which eluded her last >eai when Miss M. Illstou I Manawatu I decisively defeated her. Both com- | tostant.i ale strongly built and powerful ' players, but there was more polish and r control in Mrs. Cook's shotinaking. She ( displayed much more than the average 1 length from the tee—her drive at the , twelfth hole of fully 250 yards being the i classic of the match—while many of her irons to the green were beautifully ; executed. Miss O'Sullivan, on the other i hand, was inclined to smother her tee ] shots, but a shut face kept them running. I and she made some excellent recoveries with her seconds. Her best was at the twelfth, where, from the rough, she played • a No. 4 wood perfectly to the green. Mr?. ] Cook had a short niblick for her second, I half hit it to stop short of the green, then I to recover with one longish putt for the I half. i