DOMINION GOLF TOURNAMENT

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25020, 31 October 1946, Page 3

DOMINION GOLF TOURNAMENT

SECOND round of AMATEUR

SHAW AND MURRAY IN PROFESSIONAL FINAL A) PALMERSTON N., Oct. 30. weather, except for passing showers, J? fine at Hokowhitu to-day, when the Sessional semi-finals and the second of th e amateur championship were Syed. Results:professional championship r Semi-finals Alex- Murray (Auckland) beat N. H. (Christchurch), 4 and 3. J Shaw (Hastings) beat A. E. Guy /Auckland). 7 and 6. amateur championship Second Round n H Glading (Hamilton) beat D. H. rrahani (Manawatu), 5 and 3. nT Wocn (Waitikiri) beat W. E. Jones rrainnarunui), 3 and 2. LB- Qu* llll ‘Manor Park) beat H. A. eiark (Miramar), 6 and 5. W B Reilly (Hutt) beat R. Hay-Mac-vpnzie (Titirangi), 8 and 7. 1 K s Glendinning (Manawatu) beat E. n Gray (Otaki), 2 up. °A- R- Ki tto (Castlecliff) beat J. P. Ralph (Hutt) beat B. Bamfield ikpw Plymouth), 6 and 5. (3 P. Roberts (Hutt) beat I. A. Ewen (Hutt). 4 and 3. NEW ZEALAND PLATE Eliminating Round g J Astin (Manawatu) beat C. F. c-h'adick (Westport). X H. Amon (Manawatu) beat V. K. fcirner (Shandon). H* Boyd (Dunedin) beat G. N. Tustin Ward (Christchurch) beat P. L. Ppacock (Waipukurau). Longs!affe (Hastings) beat D. C. C Plymouth) beat B. G. beat R. B. Carr (Wanganui) beat T. H. Hor♦nn (Mieterton). some of th: above matches were won hv default, and the winners will be matched with players beaten in the secround of the championship. The orofessional stroke competition today w£ won by J. A. Clements (Christchurch). NOTES ON THE PLAY After heavy over-night rain the Hokowhitu course was heavier than ever this warning The professional semi-finals Sovided some of the best golf of the tourMmegt Fuller and Murray were round t about 74's to be square at lunch. Murray missed one or two putts, and ruiler was stymied a couple of times, duller was driving badly, and against Murray’s relentless attack he was 5 down rtthe turn in the afternoon. He got one hack, but Murray was out in 37 and home Jn a 4,3, 5,5, 4 to win 4 and 3. Saw before lunch proved much too «teady for Guy, who ’was out of bounds at the seventh, ninth, and tenth. Shaw’s morning round would be 75. Guy played well in the afternoon, but Shaw was out in 34. two under par. His figures were 4,4, 4,3, 5,4, 4,3, 3. He followed with 4, 4. 3, and won 7 and 6. The Glading-Graham match attracted a bis gallery. They were square at the end of the first round. Graham was out in J 5 He was 3 up at the turn, but Glading souared at the fifteenth. Graham won tie sixteenth, but was out of bounds at the eighteenth. Glading played superlative golf’in the afternoon. He was 4up at the turn. His figures were: 4,4, 4,3, 5, 4,5, 3, 3,-35. Graham holed a putt for a brilliant three at the tenth, but was over the back at the twelfth. Glading easily secured a birdie four at the fifteenth, where the match ended 5 and 3. Glading was playing heart-breaking golf, putitag for birdies all the time. Woon was 2 up on Jones at lunch. Both missed putts, and Woon was round in about 74. Woon chipped into the hole at the eighteenth for a par four, but Jones got a three. Jones lost the first two holes in the afternoon. He rallied and reduced the margin to one at the eleventh. He missed a foot putt at the twelfth. Woon got a birdie at the next. Against Quinn, Harold Black took three putts at the seventeenth- and eighteenth, and was 2 down at lunch. Quinn was wonderfully steady in the second round. When the game finished at 6 and 5 in his favour he was one over fours. Glendinning and Gray

Glendinning was out in 35 against Gray. He was 3 up at lunch, and four at the eighteenth would have given him 75. Gray proved himself a good golfer, and had Glendinning working all the time In the afternoon Gray continued to play splendid golf. Glendinning was dormy three, and Gray took him to the eighteenth.

Reilly was 3 up against Hay-Mackenzie st the end fo the first round. Reilly won the first three holes. Reilly opened the afternoon round with a birdie three, and never let up. Hay-Mackenzie was forced to go for wins and threw away holes that he might have halved. Ralph, round in about 74, was 3 up on Kitto at lunch. Kitto played good golf, but could not save that shot on the green. Ralph was 4 up after the fifth in the second round, but Kitto then started to play brilliant match-winning golf. He ; ec '^’ ed bfr&es at the sixth, seventh, and tenth (where, after missing his drive, he one °f the greatest iron shots seen at Hokowhitu) and at the thirfourteenth. Ralph was playwhich would have won nine ™es out of 10. but Kitto beat him 2

, out to 36 against Bamfield, teas only 1 up. He was out of bounds at tu but chipped out for a two at tuf Bamfield secured a win u“ e thirteenth with a birdie lour. e got an eagle three at the fifteenth. aS D L- W 0? the Sixteenth and eighteenth to V^t 3 u , p at lunch - Both were out vac hmch. At the ninth Home onri e , b P of the hole with his secstynued Bamfield. Three down, hi+Rn™ f ° rced to take a risk, and CuriroSl eS «. ball mto the bole for two. thing happened at Horne clinched the match t le at toe thirteenth. tod b T5 v an « rimantly against Ewen blwm 4 * Up after seven holes. EJwen Bovary shot at the teenth ctopped out at the sevenWa L 5 U P at lunch. Roberts fc topTwaJ? 74 and Ewen in about 78. Ewen^ ern< ? or ? both Played great golf. Roberts U d n - 34 and got two back, toe CU Vr- n 36 and was back in ®lS short game was wongbod and enabled him to keep on all the way.