GOLF Charles Beats Durry In Fine Game At Heretaunga

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27502, 9 November 1954, Page 5

GOLF Charles Beats Durry In Fine Game At Heretaunga

(From Our Own Reporter)

WELLINGTON, November 8. The outstanding match in the two rounds of the New Zealand amateur and professional golf championships, played at Heretaunga today, was that in the second round of the amateur title between R. J. Charles, winner of the open title on Saturday, and J. D. Durry. These 18-year-old players produced some excellent golf, and Durry, beaten on the last green, was anything but disgraced. After the hurly-burly of Saturday there was a rustic calm about Heretaunga today. After Saturday’s seething thousands it was strange to' see Charles walking down the seventh fairway this morning before a gallery of four. : t T ln amateur championship, South' Island representation has been reduced to M. W. Stanley, although the> young Otago players, Durry and R. C, Murray, had excellent wins in the morn mg. The best nine holes of the tournament so far are to the credit of the Auckland professional, S. E. Cox, whose putt on the last green failed only by a fraction to give him a 30 tor the homeward journey. For a RF* e^.Peri od R. C. Murray also held h!S st a fV four A b . ird^es in the las * six nolesTof his match against the Poverty Bay plus one player, F. T. Gordon. a< sxi_ been hea vy rain overptght.- and although it was not enough to take much pace off the fairways, it was sufficient to make it possible to pitch up to the pin with some conficloudy 1116 weather was warm and

Durry Beats J. H. Woon w i in OVe y the experienced Shandon player, J. H. Woon, was achieved sensationally. Durry was 2 a h 2o« n U n e r tu ™ &«> toted *? ut k for a b,rdl e at the tenth, and took the next two holes as well s f°« d a birdie 4 at the thirmaf nh ’ bU f s ° dld Woon . a tenacious ™ alch , Player. However, Durry P??v£d d 3 at th atC ? y? te a Perfectly?u at v the four teenth. At the fn?lt te £?fV\ Durry’s second stopped fully 30ft from the pin. It lay beside e +t’ w *fh undulating ground for part of the way to the hole. Woon was well on with his second but Durrv calmly chipped up. The ball ran .sweetly up to the P hole and dropped • u-*a* C' of- Russley was not hitting the ball well for some time met W - W ’ Smith , 6f Tili! i r^ n ?. 1- ' However, a very well-nlaved l and’ e when he q tCl? tß' gave him a «hance, ana wnen Smith’s second at thr» eleventh hole scurried into a bunker Watson seemed to be swinging the way - However. Smitfo exploded out accurately, and Watson “ al Se erin PU “’ to give Smith a r „ f ri P °f the game. H. J. Grosset was never ahead in his i game with D. E. Collins,. and. was 3 fni^/h ith v*4. Ve play * However, he ™? a « k tenaciously, and the match aid not finish until the nineteenth igreen.

. The present amateur champion, D. L. Woon, of Hamilton, was in unbeatable form against W. Crisp, of Miramar. ; He si-ored biriiws at the sixth, seventh, eighth, and tenth holes, a run that- left rX}t P w r be . hind - and the game ended with Woon two under at the twelfth. Charles Plays Durry The afternoon game'between Charles and Durry was excellent entertainment. Charles, hitting his tee shots and irons harder than he appeared to be hitting them earlier, and putting verv boldly for the back of the cup, won an early lead. Durry, also a stylist, and a player with a particularly deliberate swing—never once, even under stress, did he hurry it—clung to Charles tenaciously after starting with two s’s. At the fourth, Charles seemed certain to make his lead two when he holed a 20ft putt for his birdie 3, but Durry holed one of equal length to halve the hole.

Charles was the longer hitter, and at the par-5 seventh he found the green with his second, played from the rough. Durry, however, approached and chipped with the certain touch of the master, and Charles could not establish the commanding lead he sought. Durry, squaring the match at the seventh, holed a 15ft putt for a birdie and a win at the eighth, and he was out in 34, one under scratch.

At the tenth both were within an ace of scoring birdies again, but then came a brief period when Durry’s play on he greens fell from grace. He preferred to roll the ball up, where Charles hit it to the cup, and twice in quick succession he was short. The game see-sawed to the seventeenth, when it reached Its zenith. Charles was round in 70, and Durry in 71 —a wonderful match. / Stanley Beats Gladlng Glading was 2 .up until Stanley, at the fifteenth, played to within Sin of the hole on, this elevated green. They almost had birdies at the sixteenth, and halved the seventeenth in birdies. At the last hole Glading’s second stopped barely short of the green, and Stanley’s second, hooked slightly, struck a bank and flew away at right angles from the green. His recovery shot was magnificent—it left hir beside the hole, and Glading, chipping short, failed to hole his' putt. So to the nineteenth, where Stanley obtained his 4 in text-book styld. Glading drove into the rough at the right, and failed to reach the green with his second. In the professional championship, B. Crampton, of Australia, had two comfortable wins. A. Murray, who had been in wretched form throughout the tournament, at last found touch in his match with James Galloway. N. H. Fuller, playing well, was still unable to get clear of J. H. Rogers, and a missed putt of minute length lost him the nineteenth. E. A. Southerden’s defeat was most unexpected, and so was that of A. E. Guy, who, 1 up at the turn against Cox, came home in 34—two under scratch—and was still beaten. Cox, a former West Coast player, is anything but heavily built, yet he hit the ball very well, and his chipping was almost ludicrous in its accuracy. His homeward figures against Guy were: S.S.S.: 44453 3 454 Cox: 3 4 4423344 In the amateur championship tomorrow morning, Charles will meet Silk, Smith will play Horne, Lowes will meet Andrews, and Stanley is drawn against Woon. The Press Association reports the following results today:— AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP First Round R. J. Charles (Masterton) beat G. E. Wilson (Waipukurau), 5 and 4. J. D. Durry (Otago) beat J. H. Woon (Shandon), at the nineteenth. jB. M. Silk (Wanganui) beat A R Kitto (Wanganui), 4 and 2. R. C. Murray (St. Clair) beat F. T. Gordon (Poverty Bay), 2 and 1. W# W. Smith (Titirangi) beat D. C. Watson (Russley), 3 and 2. a ~ » D. E. Collins (Wellington) beat H. J. Gosset (Christchurch), at the nineteenth. K. S. Glendlnihg (Manawatu) beat I. Dyer (Grange), 2 and 1. „ „ W. G. Home (Wellington) beat N. V. Edwards (Titirangi). at the twentysecond. A. S. Jameson (Manor Park) beat G, L. Taylor (Hamilton), by default. J. H- Lowea (Napier) beat P. G. .F. Smith (Akarana), 2 up. R. A. Court (New Plymouth) beat D. G. Leng-Ward (Manawatu). 2 and 1. J. N. Andrews (Hamilton) beat E. W. Young (Titirangi). at the nineteenth. R. H. Glading (Hamilton) beat R. D. Wilson (Gore). 4 and 3M. W. Stanley (Russley) beat N. F. Dowden (Akarana), 1 up. N. H. Amon (Paraparaumu), beat T. M. Stout (Miramar), 5 and 4. * Di. L. Woon (Hamilton) beat W. C. Crisp (Miramar), 7 and 6. ✓ Second Round Charles beat Durry, 1 »up. Silk beat Murray, 3 aiid 2. Smith beat Collins, 4 and 2. Horne beat Glendining, 2 and 1. Lowes beat Jameson, 1 up. Andrews beat Court* 5 and 4. Stanley beat Glading, at the nineteenth. D. L. Woon beat Amon, 3 and 2.

PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP First Round 1 B. Crampton (Bjeyerley Park, N.S.W.) beat G. T. Seccombe (unattached), 4 and 3. J. A. Paterson (Tauranga) beat R. A. Jackson (unattached), 6 and 5. J. H. Rogers (St. Clair) beat N. H. Fuller (Christchurch), at the nineteenth. S. E. Cox (Auckland) beat A. E. Guy (unattached), 3 and 1. A. W. Jensen <Maraenui) beat E. A. Southerden. (Napier), 2 and 1. A." Murray (unattached) beat James Galloway (unattached), 6 and 5. J. B. Tunnell (Wanganui) beat N. D. Hayden (unattached),'3 and 2. G. E. Hudson (Palmefston North) beat F. X. Buckler (unattached), 2 up. Second Round Crampton beat Paterson, 3 and 2. Cox beat Rogers. ,at the twentieth. Tunnell beat Hudson, 2 and 1.. Murray beat. Jensen, at the nineteenth. Draw for Plates . The draw for the amateur and profes- ' sional plates is:— Amateur.—Leng-Ward v. P. G. F. Smith, ■ Kitto v. Glendining, Court v. Dowden, Murray v. Stout, Durry v, Amon, J. H. . Woon v. Edwards, Glading v. Jameson, Watson v. Collins. Professional.—Rogers ,v. Buckler, Southerden v. Jackson, Hudson v. Peterseri, Guy v. Jensen.