GOLF No N.Z. Players In Aust. Finals

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30274, 29 October 1963, Page 17

GOLF No N.Z. Players In Aust. Finals

(N.Z. Preu Arrociotton— Copyright) MELBOURNE. October 28. New Zealand golfers, Ross Newdick. a favourite, Terry Leech and Brian Boys were eliminated in the second round of the Australian amateur championships this morning. Ross Murray put up a battle before losing the longest match of the tournament to Queenslander Sommie Mackay at the twentysecond hole, in this afternoon’s third round.

Both players were on the card all the way, but it was Mackay's ability always to put his first putt near the bole and sink bis second, that gave him the match. Murray was square at the sixteenth and the pair halved five tense holes in a row before Murray three-putted from 20 feet to lose on the twenty-second. In the morning round 20-year-old South African Johnny Hayes toppled Ross Newdick at the nineteenth. N Hayes, who has shown great florin, managed to hold the more experienced Newdick to take the match.

New Zealand's young Brian Boys was not able to match lihe experience and ability of the Australian topline amateur, Phil Billings, and was beaten five and three. The other New Zealand youngster, Terry Leech, was beaten four and three by a Victorian country player, Robert Cowan. The internationals in tomorrow’s quarter-finals are

Britain's Ronnie Shade, who meets John Hayes, and another South African. Derek Kemp, who wiU play the Victorian inter-state representative. Ralph Judd. The Australians in the quarter-finals are Kevin Donohoe, Phil Billings, S. Mackay, and E. Booth.