WOMEN’S TOURNEY AT WELLINGTON

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25022, 2 November 1946, Page 10

WOMEN’S TOURNEY AT WELLINGTON

WIN FOR MISS Z. HUDSON *' The Press ” Special Service WELLINGTON, Nov. 1. The Christchurch player, Miss Z. Hudson, won the Wellington provincial women’s golf championship at Heretaunga by beating Miss C. Smith (Invercargill), 2 and 1, in a hard-fought match. A large gallery in the afternoon saw some stirring golf. Miss Hudson was slamming her wood shots further than those of the average man. With her wrists always in front of the club-head she hit a tremendous drive at the fourth hole and was through the back of the green with an easily hit No. 6 iron. Again, at the eleventh, after a long drive, she carried the green with an iron. Miss Smith started off well by taking the first hole with a 10-foot putt for a 4 Playing her shots easily, with a swing reminiscent of that of the late Pam BarS <? e main^ ained her lead until the fifth green, wh ere a careless putt cost f he hole The sixth was halved in a h°S.ey 5, and .Miss Hudson gained her L m l la k, iead at J h ® sev enth after Miss Smith had three-putted. At the next hole, after in V°*S s had placed her w ‘thy ? rds u ? £ the g re en, Miss Hudson 1 to , hole out to Miss Smith’s 6 Miss Smith lost the ninth to a bogey

Starting the second half 1 down, Miss Smith began to lose the certainty that had characterised her game earlier After halving the tenth . she caught a bunker with her second shot at the eleventh and ultimately conceded the hole The next three were halved and Miss Hudson's win at the fifteenth made her dormie 3 Miss ptVo?e P \n Ba b^ 5 ali r a b n y d \ i h n e n, ?e g tha to In her morning match with Miss H Buchanan (Christchurch). Miss Hudson °Y t 111 40 to be 2 up at the turn 1 »B laye X s wer e getting good length but Miss Buchanan lost many on and ne w« h c gr^ei ? S u She was b eaten 4 and 2. Smith in her semi-final match with Mrs Toomey (Christchurch) played steady golf to be 6 up at the turn. Mrs Toomey recovered one hole at the tenth, but Mi» Smith s putting at the eleventh proved too !PV c h ,^ or . - r ' Th® ne3rt two holes were 6 a and i '4 SiVlnB Mks Smith match, by