N.Z. WOMEN’S GOLF TEAM

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 2

N.Z. WOMEN’S GOLF TEAM

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«EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD ON THE GREENS ” (Special Correspondent NIZ.P.A.) LONDON, June 19. “All the New Zealanders are exceptionally good on the greens, and from their methods in this department of the game they should be able to show most of our people how to putt,” says Miss Enid Wilson, the tormer British women’s open golf champion, in “Golf Illustrated,” after watching the New Zealanders play at St. George’s Hill. She says: “As was to be expected, Miss Hughes, who has had time to become acclimatised and acquainted with our golf courses, played the best golf, and oy carrying off the St George’s Hill trophy with a fine score of 74, she gave her team mates a really inspiring start to the tour. “The New Zealand champion’s short game is most impressive, and her control of the ball round the greens first class. Unlike most women she executes short shots crisply, and her putting is a delight to behold.

“Although she is very straight from the tee, she is not particularly firm on her-feet when she plays a full shot, and this is because sne begins her backswing with an unusual shoulder movement which is probably caused by the exceeding straightness and, perhaps, stiffness of her left arm, due to her left hand being so far over the shaft that all four knuckles of that hand are visible when she addresses the ball. However, on her showing at St George’s Hill, Miss Hughes has revealed herself as a golfer who demands the utmost respect and who will certainly hold her own with our leading players. “The New Zealand captain, Miss Zoe Hudson, has a marked physical resemblance to Miss M.‘ Roskrow, the English international and Cornish champion. She is an outstanding personality of great cheerfulness and tremendously strong. She clips the ball with her irons like a man, and at St. George’s Hill her accurate iron play gave her two 2’s at short holes on the outward half. Like Miss Hughes, she is deadly with, her putter.

“Miss Claire Smith is the theorist of the party and the most orthodox in method. She is still feeling the effects of her journey, and it was a creditable performance on her part to go round St. George’s Hill in 79, this being her first round on an English course.

“Miss Doreen Bfundell, the youngest and smallest member of the New Zealand side, also has a pleasing style with a rather upright swing for a player of her size. “Mrs Dolan, like her captain, is Sowerfully built, and a long hitter, he has not had so much competitive experience as the other players, and perhaps not so much professional tuition, but she obviously has a natural aptitude for golf and the keenness to learn all she can during her stay in Britain.

“One thing is certain—the New Zealand side will make friends wherever they go. They will give an exceedingly good account of themselves when they have had time to get used tn playing off the British turf, which differs from the grasses of the New Zealand courses.”