N.Z. Equal Fifth In Women’s World Teams Golf Title

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30562, 3 October 1964, Page 10

N.Z. Equal Fifth In Women ’s World Teams Golf Title

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

PARIS, October 2.

The powerful French team, with, a total of .147, gained a one-strok< lead after the first round of the 72-hole women’s world teams golf championship over the St. Germain course, Paris, yesterday.

The United States and Britain were tied for second place, on 148, with Canada one stroke away, fourth. New Zealand and Belgium shared fifth place with Australia. The national junior champion, Miss J. Butler and the 1962 national stroke champion, Miss P. Harrison, ■ both had 77’s for an aggregate of 154. Mrs J. Mangan, New Zealand’s third player, shot an eight-over-par 80. The best two scores in any one round count for the title, the winner being the team with the lowest 72-hole total. The 20-year-old Miss Butler, from Auckland, had a oneover 3j for the first nine, losing a stroke with a poor chip shot at the 380-yard.par four, where she had a five. Her inward nine holes in 41 included going out of bounds at the tenth hole, and some poor putting and loose iron play on the list three holes. Miss Harrison, from Hamilton, also was out in 36, making her only mistake at the 344-yard fifth hole when she overshot the green for a five. She also came home in 41 after taking three putts at the thirteenth for a two-over six, and slicing her tee shots at the fifteenth and seventeenth, to take fives at each hole. Mrs Mangan, from Palmerston North, was four over the card at the turn, with 39, in spite of a birdie two at the 129-yard second. She had bogey figures at the first three holes of the last nine, dropped strokes at the next two with poor.

iron shots, and then lost two more strokes at the sixteenth and eighteenth holes because of shaky putting. Miss Dalgleish proved herself the heroine of the Australian side, in spite of her seven-over 79. The 33-year-old Sydney player hursed a pulled muscle in her right shoulder throughout the 18 holes and at times appeared in pain. She pulled the muscle during practice at the week-end and has been receiving medical treatment daily. “It caught me a few times today, but I can’t really blame

the pain for all my score,’ she said. Mrs J. Thomas returned a magnificent one-under 34 for the first nine holes. She was two under the card after seven holes, with birdies at the 306-yard first and 330yard fourth holes. Poor putting and some wayward drives into the heavilywooded roughs caused her to lose strokes on the homeward journey, and she finished with a 75. The third member of the Australian team, Miss G. Corry, from Brisbane, also had a 79, after being four over par at the turn.