GOLF

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21281, 28 September 1934, Page 17

GOLF

DOMINION WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP JIISS KAY BEATS MRS ROBINSON MISS (JAISFOUD'S VICTORY* U'KHS ASSCICUTIOB TELEGBAM.) AUCKLAND, September 27. j'he semi-finals of die New Zealand women's golf championship were played at the Titirangi links in fine weal her, with a strong westerly wind ccmpelling accuracy at. most of the holes. The meeting of Miss Oliver Kay, holder of the title, and Mrs C. Pobinwn, the Australian champion, pivved an irresistible attraction, and their m.itch was followed by a very large gallery. It. was a keenly conic:! cd match, in which both had to make up leeway alternately, and it went right to the eighteenth green before Miss Kay was successful, 2 up. The other semi-final was between Miss Bessie Gaisford and Mrs M. Alison Although she won only three holes, Mrs Alison did very well indeed to take her brilliant opponent to the sixteenth, where the match finished 3 and 2 in i'avoui; of Miss Gaisford. In their keenness to see every incident connected with the matches, the spectators frequently had a large number of marshals on the run to keep ahead of them. This hurrying and scurrying had (.he effect of causing the competitors to maintain an unnecessarily fast pace over the whole round. This was particularly so in the match between Miss Kay and Mrs Robinson. There were a few isolated instances of ignorant followers wandering about in front of the players; but on the whole the gallery behaved intelligently and there were few hold-ups for clearance of Ihe fairways. The Results The following were the result::: — Semi-finals Miss O. Kay (Otago) beat Mrs C, Robinson (Australia), 2 up. Miss B. Gaisford (Marton) beat Mrs M. Alison, 3 and 2. The Rattray Cup for the best scores in two bogey competitions during the tournament was won by Mrs G. Henderson after a tie with Miss W. BarnsGraham. In the senior division of the second bogey handicap, two players tied, Miss J. Hammond (New South Wales) and Miss V. Fleming CCanterbury), and after a recount the prize went to Miss Fleming. Mrs Henderson won the trophy tor players of handicaps of more than 10. Following were the results of the second bogey competition (handicaps up to 1U). . Hdcp. Miss V. Fleming . . <1 1 down Miss J. Hammond .: '1 .1. down Miss B. Hill .. 9 2 down Miss M. Ward .. 9 2 down Miss B. Holmes ..10 2 down Miss E. Hanson .. (> 4 down Miss C. Laccclles .. 5 down Mrs F. Preston .. 7 5 down Mrs J. C. Peacock .. 10 5 down Handicaps Over 10 Mrs G. Henderson .. lf> I down Miss B. Allott .. !■> 2 down M! -s A. O'Neill • ■ I'! :i Miss K. Hallv .. V.i down 111.-:: I. B. Sic wart .. M <> down Exrrllcni aialch Flay Both semi-finals produced excellent nic.tch play golf, none of the tour making many serious rmslaKes. The majority of the holes were set tied by putting. There was particular interest in the meeting of Mrs Robinson and Miss Kay, as these two met recently in the same stage of the Australian championship, where, curiously enough, the match was decided on the last green in favour of Mrs Robinson The New Zealander, therefore, had the satisfaction of turning the tables. The other semi-final was contested bv two New Zealand'",-, and the fact that it will be an ali-Ncw Zealand final to-morrow nay be regarded as some slight compensation for the overwhelming defeat of the New Zealand Tasman Cup team on Wednesday. Mrs Robinson won the toss and tool; the first hole in four. Miss Kay's second at the next just ran over the road; but she approached within putting distance, her opponent faking three to reach the green. It locked as it Mrs Robinson was going to be in great putting form when she holed her 30ft putt for four and another win, but at the third, after a line second she took three putts to lose to Hiss Kay's four from off the green. At the short fourth the New Zealander played a perfect tee shot to be about eight feet from the pin, while Mrs Robinson was t bunkered and, failing to recover, gave up the hole, the match becoming square. Miss Kay missed a win at the fifth by short putting, and this hole was halved in sixes; but she made no mistake at the next, where her opponent again took three putts. A strong wind took Miss Kay's tee shot at the short seventh nearly into the bunkers of the eighth; but she recovered well to halve the hole. All Square at the Turn The Australian was unlucky not to win the next after a superb stopped second over the bunker, her putt hitting the hole and running round it. Short putting lost Miss Kay the ninth, and the match was all square at the turn. It look two lonij shots to roach the up slope in front of the tenth green, and both ran up short to take two putts; but Miss Kay made no mistake at Redan, where she got a brilliant two to her opponent's three from off the back of the green. The Australian again played the twelfth badly, and Miss Kay's five gave her an easy win, which .she repealed at the Wrecker, when Mrs Robinson missed a short putt. Faced with a deficit cf three down, Mrs Robinson player! a great shot to (he short lourtecnth; hut putted indifferently, to allow Miss Kav to get a half in four. The Australian got one back at the next wilh a .good four: but when Miss Kay was lying for what looked like a certain win on the sixteenth. Mrs Robinson gave Iho crowd a thrill by holing a very long putt. 1o keep Hie match alivo v.' : lli a half in fours. Both were on tli" seventeenth in three: but again Mrs Robinson had a life and got a \v'n in five, the match going on to the ci;'hir?enf.h. it Joolcr-d as if the name was over v.-lien Mrs Robinson's high second go', into I he bunkers; but Miss Kay joined hand a fane measure had to be produced to del ermine the order of plav. the difference being only six i!"'h"s. Rolh .iiisl scrambled out: but Mis-, Kav- ph'ved carefully for a half, wh'eh actually became a win when Mrs Robinson aoproaehed short from the !.fi.- ~r the'"-i-cen. the malch going to Ihe New Zealander by two up. Mrs Al'son Outdriven There was some very good golf in the semi-final between Miss Gaisford and Mrs Alison. The first-named played much more steadily and consistently than in her Tasman Cup match the previous day, and without exception she outdrove her opponent. That she was consistent on the greens was shown bv her reaching the turn in two over bogey figures. Mrs Alison was short with several of her approaches: bu! she was not afraid to putt boldly. It was a good fight, on her Part to go on to the sixteenth, after being four down at the turn.