N.Z. Women Sth In World Golf

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30563, 5 October 1964, Page 23

N.Z. Women Sth In World Golf

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) PARIS, October 4. New Zealand slipped back to equal eighth place after the third round of the women’s world amateur team golf championship, at the 5933-yard St. Germain course, near Paris, yesterday.

With 18 holes to play the New Zealand teain. on an aggregate 467, is 27 strokes behind America, the leader. The New Zealanders were tied with South Africa. Mrs Jean Mangan was the top scorer for New Zealand today, with a four over par 77.

Out in 37—two over the card—she dropped strokes at the par three second hole after overshooting the green, and also at the fifth.

Two three putts—at the twelfth and eighteenth—and a wayward iron shot at the thirteenth cost her strokes on the return journey. Began With Birdies

Miss P. Harrison, who took 78, failed to get her par at three of the four short holes. Three times she missed the green and at the 175-yard fourteenth she also threeputted.

Miss J. Butler started well with two birdies but was quickly brought back to earth with sixes at three of the next four holes. Her confidence undermined, she dropped strokes at each of the three holes from the seventh for an outward 41. She took the same number of strokes for the back nine in which she carded her fourth six, at the 525-yard fifteenth. With 18 holes to play, the new championship has turned into a battle between the

powerful American teanf and France. The United States, with an aggregate 440, leads France by one stroke. England is third on 446, Canada fourth (460), Sweden fifth and Australia sixth (462). One Sub-80 In the second round on Friday, Miss Butler was the only New Zealander to break SO. She was out in 39, four over par. She had an inward 39 and a round of 78. Mrs Mangan, driving indifferently, also took 39 to the turn but made her worst slip at the short fourteenth where her tee shot hit an oak tree and ricocheted into a bunker, costing her a five. Upset by this she took a six at the fifteenth but steadied to finish in 3,4, 5, for an inward 41 and an 80. One stroke worse was Miss Harrison whose outward half of 40 included a run of six successive fives from the second.