Miss Booth In Golf Final

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32382, 22 August 1970, Page 10

Miss Booth In Golf Final

(N.Z. Press Association— Capgrlght) SYDNEY. The New Zealander, Miss Heather Booth, yesterday reached the final of the Australian women’s golf champion* ship at Royal Sydney, gaining a twohole victory over the former South African champion, Mrs I. Blumberg.

Miss Booth has never won a national singles event of consequence, including the New Zealand title, but she was runner-up in the 1966 Australian championship to Gail Corry. Yesterday Miss Booth finished her match at the eighteenth with a 15ft putt for a beautiful birdie three. She had skied her tee shot

and had to draw her 4-wood round trees to hit the green in regulation figures. Mrs Blumberg, who had been one down at the seventeenth, hit her approach through the green into a bunker. Final Opponent In the 36-hole final today, Miss Booth will meet the 1967 Australian champion, Mrs J. Perkins, who beat Mrs D. Thomas, the leader strokeplay qualifier, with a 12ft birdie putt at the 21st Mrs Thomas recovered sensationally from four down at the ninth to square the match at the eighteenth. It seemed certain Mrs Thomas would win the match at the nineteenth when she put a wedge shot to Ift from the pin for a birdie. However, Mrs Perkins, showing the courage of a true champion, sank a 7ft putt for her birdie. Once again Mrs Thomas appeared the - winner at the twentieth when Mrs Perkins duffed her approach shot, but Mrs Thomas missed her 12ft putt for a birdie. Mrs Perkins then played a magnificent 5iron to the part three 21st and sank her second birdie putt in three holes to win the match.