GOLF BRILLIANT ROUND BY THOMSON
MATCH WITH CLUB GOLFERS (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 3. Peter Thomson, the 25-year-old Australian holder of. the British open and match-play golf championship, set the club golfers of Britain a high target when he holed the Killermont golf course, Glasgow, in 66 strokes in the Open Champions’ Challenge today. Thomson, who beat the former open champion, Bobby Locke, who partnered him, by 3 and 1 in the process, was competing against 35,000 club golfers, who have each paid 2s 6d for a card to play against Thomson’s score in an event sponsored by the “Daily Mail,” in which all the proceeds will go to the golf foundation scheme for teaching young players. Thomson was playing off plus 2, so his net score beat the Killermont scratch score of 70 by two strokes. Club, golfers have to heat scratch on their own courses by more than two to beat Thomson. Thomson played magnificent golf in a constant downpour of rain, to put up a new course record, two strokes better than the previous best for the reconstructed course.
His card was: 3,4, 4,2, 4,5, 3,4, 4—33: 4,2, 4,4, 4,5, 3,3, 4—33.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27472, 5 October 1954, Page 5
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