SIX SUCCESSIVE BIRDIES Dunk One Behind Golf Leader

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31262, 7 January 1967, Page 15

SIX SUCCESSIVE BIRDIES Dunk One Behind Golf Leader

(New Zealand Press Association!

TAURANGA.

After a second round of which he will not retain many fond memories, M. Roesink, of Holland, held a one-stroke lead over the Australian champion, E. W. Dunk, in the New Zealand professional golf championship at Mount Maunganui yesterday.

In contrast to his awesome display of power hitting in the first round Roesink failed to produce the same accuracy off the tees.

Bat in spite of his lapses, he still managed to card a one-under-par 72 for a two-round total of 138. Dunk followed his 70 with a 69, which included a spectacular run of six successive birdies. The South Australian, D. J. Sullivan, and L. Sharp, of New South Wales, shared third position on 140. Pair Of Eagles Eagles at the first and fifteenth holes helped Sullivan to a fine 69, following his first round of 71, while Sharp, the epitome of steadiness has scored 70s in both rounds. Next is L. Thomas, of Western Australia, on 141, while three players—F. A. Molloy, Auckland, and two Englishmen, A. Jacklin and G. B Wolstenholme follow on 142 The title winner last year, R. R. Newdick, of Auckland, with rounds of 73 and 70. is still within striking distance of the leaders. The Dutch Canada Cup

player, A. van Pinxten, has withdrawn from the tourna-

ment with an ankle injury. He played yesterday under difficulty and could only manage an 81. , Leading Amateur The former Wellington Freyberg Rose Bowl player, K. Carter, now of Tauranga, is the leading amateur, on 147, with rounds of 73 and 74. Roesink was involved in a dispute on the seventeenth fairway where his tee shot lodged behind a small unmarked tree. He claimed that he was entitled to lift out as the tree was under six feet in height However, consultation wiiu an umpire revealed that a local rule, which supersedes the Rules of Golf in a case such as this, allowed lifting only when the tree concerned had a marker attached. Roesink finished one over for the par-three hole. Accurate Driving

There was no hint of the smooth efficiency which was to mark Dunk’s later play when he dropped a stroke on each of the first two holes, with poor putting. He played to the card on the next three and birdied the sixth. A long put gave him another birdie at the par-five eighth and he was down in two on the short ninth. Then followed four more birdies, in a display of accurate driving and short iron play unmatched in the tournament to date. Only once in this brilliant sequence did Dunk fail to place his tee shot down the middle of the fairway. At the 503-yard fifteenth an uncharacteristic slice left him with a large pine tree blocking his view of the pin. Undeterred by this misfortune, Dunk calmly took a driver from his bag and with another slice, intentional this time, curved the ball around the tree and left himself with a 3ft put, Jacklin was all calm efficiency in his round of 69. He reeled off a string of long, straight drives and followed them up with neat iron play and steady putting. His outward half of 34 in-

eluded three birdies, while on his one-under-par homeward leg of 35 he also birdied three times.

There was a polish about Wolstenholme’s performance which was lacking in the first round. He played steady par golf over the first nine for 37 but came home in 32 with the help of four birdies.