MISS D. BLUNDELL REACHES FINAL

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27415, 30 July 1954, Page 4

MISS D. BLUNDELL REACHES FINAL

GOLF

AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP BRILLIANT RECOVERY IN SEMI-FINAL MATCH (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) BRISBANE, July 29. The New Zealander, Miss Doreen Blundell, played herself into the final of the women’s golf championship of Australia when she meat Miss Elizabeth Gibbings. of Queensland, 3 and 2 in a well-fought semi-final on the Yeerongpilly course today. Miss • Blundell was four down after the opening seven holes of v the oneround semi-final, but won the next four in a row.

Opening rather nervously, she found touch on the tenth green, where she sank a 15-footer to win with a birdie. Thereafter, her short game and putting were brilliant. She took the short eleventh when Miss Gibbings’s tee shot found a green side bunker, won the scratch four fourteenth by sinking a 12 footer for another birdie, and won the fifteen with a scratch four. Miss Gibbings missed a three foot putt at the sixteenth, which was halved, and Miss Blundell won the seventeenth and the match. She was two strokes better than scratch on the last 11 holes played. Tomorrow in the two-round final match, Miss Blundell will play Miss Judith Percy, who beat the present New Zealand champion, Miss Maxine Bishop, of Western Australia, on the twenty-first green with a birdie three. Miss Bishop chipped in from 30 yards out at the sixteenth to keep the match alive when she was tat 9 down.

N.Z. COURSES “ TOO EASY”

D. l. woon:s view

LONGER AND NARROWER FAIRWAYS URGED

(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, July 29. New Zealand has to make its golf courses more difficult if it is to become an international force. This is the outstanding impression of the national amateur champion, D. L. Woon, of Hamilton, who has just returned from his tour of Britain and Canada with the New Zealand golf team. This morning he said, as did the Waikato’s other outstanding player, R. H. Glading. on his return from Britain a year or two ago. that the Dominion’s courses were too easy.

’’More length for holes and less expanse of fairway to negotiate poor tee shots are required to sharpen up our golfers,” woon said. He added that he was convinced that New Zealand could produce golfers as good as any if they were attuned to overseas conditions by tougher competition and tougher courses. “Our players are spoiled by their courses,” he spid. “Over there if one hits a loose ball m a medal event that is the finish. Every drive is a real headache. Trouble looms in all directions.” In Britain, he said, all important golf events were played in the summer. Heavy conditions did not make for good golf. An August-April season, with a reak over Christmas, would be suitable for New Zealand. Although he won two and was runner•up in one of the four main amateur stroke play events of the year in Britain. Woon was disappointed in his play on the whole. He struck his peak in the tournaments just before the Commonwealth and open tourneys. TAI TAPU JUNIOR OPEN T ORNAMENT The draw for Sunday, August 1, is as follows: 8 a.m.: T. D. McNeill, C. Bailey, A. Morten. K. Palmer: 8.5: L. J. A. Fraser, S. A. Wayland, J. Gemmell, G. McCree; 8.10: G. J. Harris, G. Si*ckling, G. Tilley, F. Betts; 8.15; K. Lewis, F. Smith, J. Chamberlain, L. Kilroy; 8.20: G. A. Nutt, J. Waters, J. W. Duncan, G. Rawstron; 8.25; R. Blackmore, P. Chamberlain, C. Neville E Thompson; 8.30: B/ Neville, R. Holmes, W Bedelph D Wootton; 8.35: ,W. Cockram, W. Wood, V. Warner, A. Prisk; 8.40: H. Williamson, G. Chapman, R. Stuart, M. Hibbard; 8.45: K. E. Johnston, R. MacKenzie W. J. Kortegast, R. Pugh; 8.50: Mort en, E. N. Carpinter. J. Cov M. Hills; 8.55: J. Howard, L. King, P“’McGuire, J. Wright. 9 a.m : D. T. Ager, C. Cox. C. J. Seabrook, E. Ofee; 9 5: J. McKay, D. Russell, D. Hamilton, G. Gardiner; 9.10: R. N. McCone. P. G. Dodson, D. G. Turnbull, S. Dacombe. _______ —Advt.