FINE MUSEUM CLASSIC

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33058, 27 October 1972, Page 24

FINE MUSEUM CLASSIC

Strict adherence to doctor’s orders is to be commended. And if there is anyone who should subscribe to this view, it is Mr L. Brown, a 27-year-old Christchurch commercial traveller.

After more than three months in hospital, Mr Brown was advised by his doctor to take up golf, and get into the fresh air as much as possible.

He started playing in March, and soon earned his handicap of 36. He is now on a mark of 31—and he has the best individual round in the hundreds which have been played in the Museum Golf Classic competition. He joined the Everglades club, and entered the Museum Classic as a member of a team from New Zealand Farmers, Ltd.

In August, he returned a card of four over the standard scratch score. Early in September, he improved on this with an all-square card. On the last day of the month, he was eight under standard scratch —a score of 86, a net 55. ONE UNDER But his score has not put his team in the lead. There has been a card returned from only one other member of the four, and his team’s score at present stands at one under. The final cards have to be returned by November 9. The organiser, Mr M. Smith, has been busy checking cards and assessing scores. His task is not yet complete as teams still have some players with a round to play; the final result will not be

known until about the middle of November. The winning team will be flown to Queenstown by Mount Cook Airlines, Ltd, and will be guests for four days at the Frankton Motor Hotel, and have the use of a station wagon provided by Tasman Rentals, Ltd. One of the best rounds played in the competition—although in terms of strokes under scratch it was not spectacular—was by N. M. Pitches, who is playing for a St Andrew’s College team. On the old course at Harewood, he was three under his handicap of four. He scored 72, one under the card. Pitches, a senior cricketer for the last three seasons, was out in 37, equal with the card, and home in 35, one under, finishing the round with four successive birdies.