Nelson Post For K. D. Foxton

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31329, 28 March 1967, Page 15

Nelson Post For K. D. Foxton

K. D. Foxton, a prominent figure among Canterbury golfers for the last decade, will leave Christchurch next week to take up a position as professional to the Nelson Golf Club at its pleasant Tahunanui course.

. For the last 18 months he has been professional at the Templeton Country Club—his first appointment after leaving the amateur ranks. Foxton built an outstanding record of success in his games for Russley in the Woodward Cup competition and for Canterbury in the Freyberg Rose Bowl. He was beaten only 16 times in 60 Rose Bowl matches, and only 14 times in 65 Woodward Cup games. At the peak of his form,

in 1962, he won six club open tournaments, the North Canterbury stroke title—which he held for eight successive years—the Canterbury match play championship and the provincial men’s foursomes event He will be remembered chiefly, however, for two shots —a chip from the edge of a bunker at the seventeenth and a 14ft putt at the eighteenth—which were instrumental in Canterbury winning the Freyberg Rose Bowl at Waitikiri in 1965.

Foxton's vast store of golf-

ing knowledge and his friendly manner made him an instant success as a professional, and he has had a very happy association with the Templeton club. He sees a challenge awaiting him at Nelson, for the district sorely needs a professional. Now that Nelson has supplied all the members of the 1967 Buller-Westland-Marlborough-Nelson Rose Bowl team. Foxton's presence at Tahunanui will be all the more valuable.