TASMAN CUP TO AUSTRALIA

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25957, 10 November 1949, Page 2

TASMAN CUP TO AUSTRALIA

GOLF

N.Z. WOMEN BEATEN 4 TO 2 BOTH FOURSOMES LOST From Our Own Reporter INVERCARGILL, November 8. New Zealand women golfers, the holders, lost the Tasman Cup to-day to Australia by four matches to two. New Zealand lost both foursomes in the morning and won two singles and lost two in the afternoon.. The weather was conducive to good golf. The Australians’ win illustrated the importance of putting. To-day, as on every day since the tournament began, the Australians were successful because of their accurate short game. Details, Australian names first:—

Miss P. Borthwick and Miss B. Cheney beat Mrs Jackson Ball and Mrs H. A. Murray, 4 and. 2.

Miss M. Bishop and Miss J. E. Percy beat Miss R. Hodges and Miss M. Hughes, 6 and 5.

Miss P. Borthwick lost to Mrs J. Ball, L down.

Miss J. E. Percy lost to Miss R. Hodges, 7 and 6.

Miss J. T. Fletcher beat Mrs H. A. Murray, 4 and. 3. Miss M. Bishop beat Miss Z. Hudson, 5 and 4.

A big gallery followed the first match between Misses B. Cheney and P. Borthwick (Australia) and Mrs J. Ball and Mrs H. Murray (New Zealand), which the Australians won 4 and 2. There was little between the pairs’ long game, and Mrs Ball, who has lengthened her game in the last few seasons, played her irons as satisfactorily as .her opponents, but Miss Cheney was putting with admirable accuracy. She repeatedly holed putts of 10 feet or more. She and her partner had one putt on seven greens.

The New Zealanders started well and won the first hole in 4 to 5, but the Australians replied by winning the second in 3 to 4. The third was halved. At the fourth (132 yards) Mrs Ball was bunkered at the side of the green. Miss Cheney’s tee shot was within three feet of the pin. Miss Borthwick missed the putt, but the Australians took the hole in 3 to 4. The fifth was halved.. At the sixth a poor shot by Miss Borthwick gave the New Zealanders a chance for a win, but a stymie allowed them only a naif. The seventh was also halved. Both pairs were on the green at the eighth for three, but the Australians sank a 12ft putt while Mrs Murray’s long putt rimmed the cup. The ninth was halved, and the New Zealanders turned 2 down. They went out in 39 and their opponents ii) 37. Stymie Negotiated

One putt to the New Zealanders’ two gave the Australians the tenth. The eleventh was halved. The twelfth was exciting. Miss Cheney’s tee shot was four feet from the pin and Mrs Ball was off the green. Miss Borthwick missed the putt, and /Mrs Ball stymied her with her third. Miss Cheney, after , going on her hands and knees to examine the position of the balls, jumped her opponent’s ball for a 3 and a win. The thirteenth was halved. At the fourteenth Miss Cheney put her long approach out of bounds, and New Zealand won the hole 5 to 7. The end came at the sixteenth, which the Australians won. The two young New Zealand players, Miss R. Hodges and Miss M. Hughes, won only one hole in their match with Miss J. Percy and Miss M. Bishop, who won 6 and 5. The Australians did the first nine holes in 37.

Both pairs started well and halved the first two holes. A stymie at the third robbed the Australians of a birdie, but they won the hole and also the fourth, where the New Zealanders were bunker-, ed, the fifth, where the New Zealanders had three putts, and the sixth, where Misses Hodges and Hughes were again bunkered. The seventh and eighth were halved. The Australians won the ninth with a birdie three and turned 5 up. Continuing to play with great precision, they won the tenth. They halved the eleventh and lost the twelfth, where Miss Percy played her first poor shot of the round. She gave her opponents a chance at the thirteenth, where her drive caught the rough, but the New Zealanders approached too strongly into long grass.

The most’ exciting match of the week was the single between Mrs Ball, last year’s New Zealand champion, and Miss Borthwick, champion of New South Wales and of Australia. Mrs Ball won at the eighteenth. It was an exhibition of good golf by two well matched and skilful players. A stymie cost Mrs Ball a win at the first, which was halved. She sank a 10-foot putt for a birdie and a win at the second, and lost the third. Both players were bunkered with their tee shots at the fourth. Miss Borthwick hit out into the trees and Mrs Ball won the hole 4 to 5. The fifth was halved, and Miss Borthwick won the sixth, where Mrs Ball’s putt sat on the lip, and the seventh in 4 to 5. Mrs Ball replied with a win at the eighth and the* ninth, where her second was four feet from the pin. Her opponent laid her a stymie which cost her a stroke, but she won the hole and turned 1 up. Miss Borthwick was out in 41 and Mrs Ball in 40.

The tenth, where Mrs Ball missed a sixfoot putt, and the eleventh were halved. At the twelfth, Miss Borthwick was bunkered with her tee shot and, for the first time since she came to Otatara, she failea to get out at the first attempt. She won the thirteenth with a birdie. Mrs Ball had a sad experience at the fourteenth. She duffed her second which landed in the rough, was out of bounds with her fourth, and conceded the hole, making the match square. The fifteenth was halved.

At the sixteenth (324. yards). Miss Borthwick had a flash of brilliance. With two beautiful woods she lay two feet from the pin, and had a birdie 3 for a win. At the seventeenth (137 yards), Mrs Bal) put her tee shot four feet from the pin and holed her putt for a birdie 2 and a win.

The large gallery was excited as the players went to the last tee all square. Mrs Ball was through the green with two woods. She chipped back neatly and sank her putt. Miss Borthwick missed a four-foot putt for a half, giving Mrs Ball the match. Miss Borthwick came home in 36. Defeat of Miss Hudson An unfortunate tendency to hook was largely responsible for the defeat of Miss Hudson by the youthful and very confident West Australian player, Miss Bishop, who plays a consistently good game. Today she went out in 35 to Miss Hudson’s 38. Miss Hudson began well. She halved the first and holed a long putt for a birdie and a win at the second. Miss Bishop squared the match with a birdie at the third. The next three holes were halved. Miss Bishop then took the seventh, eighth, and ninth to be 3 up at the turn. Miss Hudson hooked her drive into the rough at the eighth, and with another hook landed on the adjacent fairway with her drive at the ninth. At the tenth her drive found the rough and was lost. She halved the eleventh and lost the twelfth, where Miss Bishop scored a birdie 2. Miss Hudson got a hole back at the thirteenth with a birdie, while her opponent overshot the green with her approach. Miss Bishop had another birdie at the lourteentn to take the hole and the match. Miss Bishop and Miss Hudson will meet again in the New Zealand championships semi-final to-morrow. The other semifinalists are Miss Percy and Miss Borthwick.

Miss Fletcher early took the lead from Mrs Murray. In the first nine holes she won five holes, halved three, and lost one. making her 4 up at the turn. She went out in 38. The first three holes of the second half were halved, and Mrs Murray won the thirteenth, where Miss Fletcher was in the rough. The match ended at the fifteenth, where Miss Fletcher had a birdie.

Miss Hodges had a remarkable win over Miss Percy, who for the first time since she arrived at Otatara was out of touch with her short approaches and her putts. Miss Hodges played good orthodox golf and deserved her win. She did the first five holes in bogey, had a birdie at the sixth and bogies at the seventh and eighth. She was 8 up at the turn and was out in 37. She halved the tenth, lost the eleventh, where she-was stymied, and halved the twelfth for the match. The Tasman Cup has now been won three times by Australia and three times by New Zealand.

After the match, Mrs D. M. Mcßae congratulated the winners, and presented the cup to Miss B. Kernot, manager of the visiting team.'

WAITIKIRI LADIES’ CLUB The November L.G.U. match plaved by the Waitikiri Ladies’ Golf Club ‘resulted :

Senior.—Mrs H. Dymond, 92, 15—77. Junior.—Miss Y. Raaff, 104, 25—79; Mrs J. Royds, 102, 22—80. The final for Mrs A. R. Blank’s trophv was won by Mrs S. Hinchcliff. who beat Miss L. Hillis. 3 and 2.

Play in the semi-finals of the junior championship resulted as follows:—Mrs J. Potts beat Mrs K. Symington, Mrs J. Royds beat Miss L. Hillis.

CHRISTCHURCH LADIES’ CLUB The following were the results of a bogey match played at Shirley yesterday by the Christchurch Ladies’ Golf Club:—silver division: Miss M. Donaldson, 4 down; Mrs D H. Butcher. 5 down; Mrs J. S. Middleton, 6 down. Bronze division: Mrs P. H. N. Freeth. 1 down; Miss V. Rogers. 4 down; Mrs J. L. Kerr. 5 down; and Mrs G. R. Cracroft-Wilson. 5 down. AUSTRALIAN TEAM’S VISIT The Australian Tasman Cup team now Competing at Invercargill will play a match against a Canterbury team at Shirley on Monday, November 14, at 1 p.m. Advt.