Another £3OO Added To Golf Circuit Starting Today

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30222, 29 August 1963, Page 20

Another £3OO Added To Golf Circuit Starting Today

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Aug. 28. Prize-money totalling £3OO will be awarded to the leading players competing in the seven New Zealand professional golf tournaments over the next six weeks. The prizes are additional to the £12.050 which will be at stake on the circuit, which begins at Chamberlain Park tomorrow. Points at each tournament will be allocated on the basis of 10 for first place and sealing down a point for each place to one point for tenth placing. Leadens at the end of the tournament series will be paid £75 for first place, £5O for second, £4O for third.

£3O for fourth, £2O for fifth, £l5 for sixth, and £lO for each of the remaining places. Ttie leading New Zealand professional will receive £3O in addition to any money he may win in the points competition proper. These awards are being made by the Palmerston North firm, which is promoting a two-day tournament at Hokowtaitu next week. Top flight New Zealand and overseas players will be - challenged to attempt attacking golf in the sponsored £2OOO tournament at Cham- i berlain Park tomorrow. The head greenkeeper, Mr . E. Tiers, believes several of the 80 entrants will better 70, in spite of the scratch score of 72 for each of the tournament’s four rounds. “Holes have been placed slap in the middle of the green,” he said. “The players will find they can go for their j

shots. The greens at the 174 yd thirteenth and 116 yd second—both bogey 3’*—will be watered today to make them hold. “We haven’t had our usual rainfall,” said Mr Tiers. "The greens are pretty fast.” The American professional. Ron Howell, will not play in the first tournaments, the secretary of the New Zealand Professional Golfers' Association (Mr N. Hayden) said today. “Unforeseen circumstances have forced Howell to withdraw from the early tournaments but he will probably join the circuit for the later ones,” he said. E. J. McDougall (Auckland) has withdrawn from the tournament at Hokowhitu and has been replaced by P. Weber (Manawatu). who yesterday was the top qualifier in the boys’ championship at Shirley.