GOLF

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27676, 4 June 1955, Page 11

GOLF

PALM BEACH TOURNEY PETER THOMSON TIES FOR SECOND PLACE (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) GREAT NECK (New York), June 2. Peter Thomson, the Australian holder of the British open golf championship, tied for second place with Tommy Bolt at the end of the first round of the fourteenth Palm Beach round-robin golf tourney at the Deepdale Golf Club today. The leader was Ed Furgol. Scoring in the round-robin is by points, a player receiving or conceding one point for each stroke of difference between his score and that jof other players in his foursome. Thomson and Bolt each had a 1-unaer-par 69, compared with a 72 by Doug Ford and a 73 by Ted Kroll, the other members of their foursome. Thomson and Bolt each received three points from Ford and four points from Kroll, for a plus score of seven points. Furgol had a plus score of eight points. He returned a par 70 against 72 by Bob Rosburg and 73 each by Shelley Mayfield and Johnny Palmer. Sam. Snead, the defending champion, had a 2-under-par 68, but because of the low scoring in his foursome he gained only five points. , . <. Sixteen players are taking part in the event.

PICKWORTH BEATS PHILLIPS

PROFESSIONAL TITLE IN AUSTRALIA

(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m. ) BRISBANE, June 3. The Victorian, Ossie Pickworth, had 10 birdies in another exhibition of almost machine-like golf to defeat long-hitting Frank Phillips, 8 and 7, to win the Australian professional match play title at Indooroopilly today. Pickworth, aged 38, has been four times Australian open winner, and now has won the national professional match play championship three times. Phillips outdrove Pickworth on all but three holes but could not match the Victorian’s accuracy from tee to green nor his outstanding chipping and putting.

BOBBY LOCKE “ NOT RETIRING ”

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 2. The South African, Bobby Locke, three times winner of the British open golf title, dismissed as “completely untrue reports from Sydney that he will retire this year. . . Arriving from Australia at the London airport tonight, Locke said: ‘This is to be my last long hard season. In future I shall choose my tournaments like Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. I shall play in the British open for five more years. He said that his immediate plans are to play in the Daks tournament at Sunningdale, on June 8. and later in the Yorkshire Evening News” tournament.

YORKSHIREMAN’S BIG DAY AT ST. ANNE’S

(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 2. Alan Slater, a 36-year-old Yorkshireman, who has never succeeded in winning his county golf title, was the hero of the Loyal Lytham and St. Anne s course today, when he scored two great victories over top-ranking Americans to reach the last eight of the British amateur championships. Slater, slimly built, showed typical Yorkshire grit. He first gained a 2 and 1 victory over Dale Morey, the 1953 run-ner-up in the American national championship. Then he won a one-hole triumph over Jimmy McHale, a reinstated amateur, who figured in the 1951 Walker Cup side. The day’s play left five Britons in the last eight to challenge three Americans for the title.

The British players, in addition to Slater, included Joe Carr, the 1953 winner, and Philip Scrutton, both Walker Cup men. RAKAIA LADIES’ TOURNAMENT The draw is as follows: 8.15 a.m.: Miss J. Wilson, Mrs H. P. McCay, Mrs A. Law, Miss T. Cowan. 8.20: Miss J. Hanrahan, Mrs Porter, Mrs Freeman, Mrs Rutledge. 8.25: Mrs N. K. Wilson, Mrs J. Andrews, Mrs C. Wood, Mrs R. B. Knight. 8.30: Mrs Forrester, Mrs Robilliard, Mrs J. H. Grigg, Mrs D. Williams. 8.35: Miss J. Thomas, Mrs Hartnell, Mrs K. Cooper, Mrs E. Hood. 8.40: Mrs Caithness, Mrs G. Grigg, Mrs E. Williams, Mrs Drummond. 8.45: Miss S. Grigg, Mrs G. P. Anderson, Mrs Ridgen, Mrs Bonnington. 8.50: Miss V. Fleming, Mrs L. A. Watson. Miss White-Parsons, Miss B. Langley. 8.55: Mrs Freeth, Mrs Olliver, Mrs Langley, Miss R. McAdam. 9 a.m.: Mrs N. Toomey, Mrs D. Barclay, Mrs Bowron, Mrs A. Kingscote. 9.5: Mrs T. Waters, Mrs Rowe, Mrs E. Duncan. 11.50 a.m.—Mrs J. O'Connell, Mrs Kilworth, Mrs McFedries. Post entries will be accepted. —Advt. CHRISTCHURCH GOLF CLUB OPEN DAY, MONDAY, JUNE 6 DOMINION CUP (FOUR-BALL BOGEY HANDICAP) Entries will be received at the course and players will be sent off in order of arrival, commencing at 9 a.m. —Advt.

There are no special Dunlop 65 Golf Balls, each Dunlop 65 is a special. * —Advt

Photographic Competition.— The slide gaining 'highest marks in the third colour slide competition held by the Christchurch Photographic Society, Was exhibited by L. A. Thomas. The judge was Mr Mathieson Beaumont, of Dunedin. Other results were: B grade aggregate, L. A. Thomas; C grade aggregate, R. M. Monteath.