SIX IN DUCKPOND

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32764, 15 November 1971, Page 24

SIX IN DUCKPOND

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PALM BEACH. Alvin Liau, of Singapore, who established some kind of a record with an 18 on the par-4 thirteenth hole in the World Cup golf tournament on Saturday, declined an invitation to visit the press room and re-live the agony. He said he thought he would “just wander off into the sunset with a length of rope and take a ‘Singapore stretch’.” Liau’s tee shot on the dogleg hole split the middle of the fairway and left him only a short iron to the green. At this point,

he shanked six consecutive shots into the pond before putting his fourteenth stroke into the bunker fronting the green. He blasted out and, of course, three-putted. “The club kept turning in this heavy grass,” he explained. “But it was a good experience, although not one I ever care to repeat.” Liau said that after his nightmare on the thirteenth, he “kind of lost interest in the round and just knocked a lot of putts around.” The Singapore player had a 55 for the second nine, and a 98 for the round.