Girl Golfers Who Toured N.Z. Prominent In Britain

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28362, 22 August 1957, Page 15

Girl Golfers Who Toured N.Z. Prominent In Britain

UEW sports teams which have x visited New Zealand in recent y.eafs made such a good impression as- the British junior women golfers who toured New Zealadd in 1£55. Their popularity was won not only through their skill, but through their Impeccable course manners and their sportsmanship. Four of the five young women are still prominent competitors in British tournaments; Gillian Atkinson, now Mrs Clark, is not playing at present, for the best of reasons. News of members of the team has been received by Miss Helen Buchanan, of Little River, from Miss Enid Wilson, who was British women's champion for three years in the early 1930'5. Recalling the Home international matches. Miss Wilson said Scotland beat the other three teams. England was beaten 4-3, with two English players, both one up with one to play, having to be content with halves. Bridget Jackson lost to Philomena Garvey, but won her other two matches. Dropped “Veronica Anstey played in the first match, against Wales, and lost heavily to . Elsie Brown,” said Miss Wilson. “She was withdrawn from the side. She seemed to have lost her nerve badly. Janette Robertson well and won all her three matches. Dorothea Sommerville won two and halved one. “The match between Bridget Jackson and Janette Robertson was the best of the championship at Gleneagles,” said Miss Wilson. “They met in the second round, and Bridget’s second shot to the

460-yard eighteenth was an absolute corker. Poor Janette was well and truly slated by the Scottish press for losing, and they told her in no uncertain terms that she must amend her grip. “Margaret Nichol, the girl who beat Dorothea in round two, is the Northumberland county champion—a lovely swinger of the club, but very frail. “Veronica Anstey had a lucky draw, but had to bestir , herself and finish well to get by until she met Bridget Jackson. They went crazy on the greets, and

, between them had 27 putts on the i first five holes; Bridget 45 and ! Veronica 43 at the turn, yet playt ing well up to the greens. Then ■ they decided to amend, and came » roaring in in 35 apiece. “The climax was on the seventeenth. Bridget’s drive, with a shade of drift, was caught in a ' bunker. Veronica had a bad , hook into the most terrible place ; on the hillside. With a miraculous ' recovery she got out sideways on to the fairway, put her third I on the green, and canned a putt 1 of 30 feet for a 4. Bridget had i' a putt for a half, but did not make it. The eighteenth they • halved in fours. Veronica played ' not so well in the semi-final t against Miss Garvey (who won the title); she had spent all her shots against Bridget.” Miss Wilson also wrote of the ’ South-eastern championship at ’ Moor Park. It was won by Angela Ward, who, on a course with a standard scratch score of 75, had rounds of 72, 72, 71, and 70. Miss Ward’s 72 holes were made up of an eagle, 22 birdies, 41 bogeys, seven one-over’s, and one two-bver.