All-Southland golf final

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33962, 1 October 1975, Page 32

All-Southland golf final

(N.Z. Press Association) NAPIER. The final of the national women’s amateur match-play golf championship at the Waiohiki course, Napier, today will be an allInvercargill affair.

It will be between Robyn Low, aged 20, of the Queen’s Park club, and Elizabeth Douglas, of the Invercargill club.

Mrs Douglas yesterday was two under the card to beat Kay Maxwell, the top New Zealand junior, in the quarter-finals, and was one under the card when she accounted for Miss Sue Boag, of Waitikiri, at the fourteenth in the semi-finals. In her 5-and-4 win against Miss Boag, Mrs Douglas was perhaps guilty of three poor shots during the whole round.

Miss Boag gave away the match on the fourteenth when' she three-putted the par-3 hole.

Miss Low, who has once beaten Mrs Douglas, and has lost to her twice, played some excellent shots close to the greens yesterday. The best was on the ninth when she played a 60-yard 8-iron to within a foot of the pin to birdie the hole and square with Sue Ritchie of Geraldine, at the turn. Miss Low was helped to a 2-and-l win by casual putting by Miss Ritchie. Sue Bishop, of Russley, was beaten in the third round by Miss Low.

AUSTRALIANS BEATEN The last of the Australians in the championship went out in the third round. The team captain, Vai Gmeiner, was beaten 1 up at the nineteenth by Miss Boag after she was unable to sink a 10ft putt, and Mrs Helene Gosse lost to Miss Ritchie. Two leading golfers of the last few years—Jean Whitehead, of Manawatu, and Una Wickham, of Tauranga — were beaten in the New Zealand plate, Miss Whitehead by Miss S. Johnson, of Rotorua, and Miss Wickham by Gillian Bannan, of Titirangi.

Earlier in the day the defending match-play champion, Cushla Sullivan, of the Coringa Country Club, was also eliminated from the plate by Ann McHardy, • of Hastings. Besides the championship, the finals of the Wardell Rose Bowl and the New Zealand Plate will be played tomorrow.

N.Z. amateur match-play championships.—Third round: R. Low (Invercargill; beat S. Bishop (Russley), 2 and 1; S. Ritchie (Geraldine) beat H. Gosse (Australia), 1 up; S. Boag (Waitikiri), beat V. Gmeiner (Australia) at the 19th; E. Douglas (Invercargill) beat K. Maxwell (Grange), 1 up. Semi-finals: Miss Low beat Miss Ritchie, 2 and 1; Mrs Douglas beat Miss Boag, 5 and 4.

N.Z. Plate.—Third round: D. Seiringer (Manor Park) beat K. Permezel (Australia) at the 20th; G. Bannan (Titirangi) beat U. Wickham (Tauranga), 3 and 2; A. McHardy (Hastings) beat J. Miles (Australia) at the 19th.

Waddell Rose Bowl. — Semifinals: C. West (Pukekohe) beat J. Hornabrook (Wellington), 6 and 5; J. McLean (Pukekohe) beat J. Hembrow (Hastings). Plate. — Semi-finals: J. Glanfield (North Shore) beat A. Mullany (Napier), 5 and 4; A. Mackelyne (Westown) beat B. Gill (Paraparaumu), 1 up.