TITLE FOR 7th TIME

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33671, 22 October 1974, Page 34

TITLE FOR 7th TIME

Miss C. Sullivan (Coringa) continued the monopoly she has held on the women’s cham-pion-of-champions title during the last 10 years when she won it for the seventh time — the last three in succession — at Rangiora yesterday. Miss Sullivan won the title at her first attempt in 1964 and yesterday she finished 10 strokes ahead of the Canter-

bury representative, Mrs N. D. Cullen (Russley), over 36 holes. Miss Sullivan played superb golf in the morning round dropping only two strokes. She began with a par and lost shots on the second and third holes, but they were the last she was to drop for the remainder of the round. With flowing tee and fairW’ay shots and sure putting she reeled off 15 pars to finish the morning round in 76 —four strokes ahead of Mrs Cullen. In the afternoon wind and rain made conditions unpleasant for the 29 club representatives. Miss Sullivan admitted to being cold, but it was only over the last few holes that her game faltered. As in the morning round she dropped two strokes on the first nine holes. But on the inward nine she dropped two shots at the par-3 thirteenth when her drive went high in the air into the strong wind. She required two chips to get on the green and two-putted. At the seventeenth she dropped another stroke when she missed a 3ft putt, and she also lost a stroke at the eighteenth. Miss Sullivan won the national women’s match-play title last month and is probably the best golfer in the country at present, but she is

unavailable for representative play. She was recently appointed secretary-manager of the Coringa club and she said yesterday she would have less time to play from now on. “I will take things as they come next year,” she said. Like Miss Sullivan, Mrs Cullen’s best round was in the morning with an 80. She had an unhappy first nine holes in losing four strokes, but improved by dropping only two on the next nine. In the wind and rain in the afternoon she had halves of 43 for an 86. Mrs D. Lavery (Amberley) was third and Mrs R. Hyde (Cheviot) was fourth. Play on the testing Rangiora course was made more difficult when water began to lie late in the afternoon. Leading scores were:— 156—Miss Sullivan, 76, 80. 166—Mrs Cullen, 80, 86. 171—Mrs Lavery, 86, 85. 176— Mrs Hyde, 88, 88. 177— Mrs J. Wood (Harewood), 89. 88. 179—Mrs W. Storey (Rawhiti), 88, 91. ■ ________ 1