NEW OPEN CHAMPION HAS HAD MANY SUCCESSES

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28099, 15 October 1956, Page 13

NEW OPEN CHAMPION HAS HAD MANY SUCCESSES

The new open golf champion of New Zealand, H. Berwick, is no stranger to New Zealand courses. He is a member of the Australian amateur touring team and was in New Zealand with another Australian team four years ago. On that occasion he was runner-up in the open to the Auckland professional. A. Murray. Berwick, who is 33, is a building contractor. He began his golf when he was at secondary school, and his introduction to the game was not the product oi heredity. He lived in Mascot in Svdney, near The Lakes course, and there, he said on Saturday. almost everyone played golf. The game was tremendousiv popular, and even the postman on his round would be asking, during the tournament, for the latest scores at almost every house he visited. Berwick is the present Australian amateur chamnion. In the final this ye.ar he beat W. Edgar, another member of the Australian team. He won the New South Wales title in 1954 and 1955. and on the first occasion beat B. Crampton, now a nrominent professional and Australian open champion, in the final. He was naturally pleased to have won the event, said Berwick. He liked the- course, which reouired good golf. The fairways and rough were properly • defined, as they should be, and he did nqt say that merely because he had won. Berwick thinks it is unlikely he

will be back in New Zealand to defend his title next year. He is very much a family man, with three girls, aged nine, eight, and seven, and a “very welcome” boy of four months old.