Exciting golf from women

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34123, 8 April 1976, Page 32

Exciting golf from women

Sue Boas’ w iH play, Sue Bishop and Jeanette] Kinnaird will meet Rose- 1 mary Farquhar in the (semi-finals at Shirley] this morning of the Can-] terbury women’s golf ] (championship. The final, (will follow this after-1 (noon. ] There was some close and 'exciting golf in the quarterj finals yesterday afternoon, (after the first round of | match play in the morning 'had produced clear winners ] in seven of the eight games. The one exception was the 'match between Sue Haydon ; and Moana Lavery. Mrs Laivery was three up after seven holes, but Mrs Haydon

fought back with a ven- 1 Igance and she, in turn, was (three up playing the fourteenth. j i Mrs Haydon’s advantage! (has been cut to one hole by the eighteenth, but three [putts on the last green cost] 'her the game. The nineteenth was squared and Mrs] I Haydon gave up in despair' (on the twentieth when she (failed to come out of ai bunker on the fourth at-] tempt. ' All four quart er-finals' [were interesting, but for (high drama none could] measure up to thg contest] (between Miss Kinniard and; I the more experienced former title-holder, Vai Cullen. Mrs Cullen was four up 1 after 11 holes and although] (Miss Kinnaird had looked' ' impressive in the morning. : her chances of overhauling | such a competent player ap- i peared remote. However,; four birdies — three on four! holes — in conjunction with! some great putting had Miss I Kinnaird one up playing the i eighteenth and she com-!

'pleted her triumphant recovery by winning that hole, too. | It was a great return to ■ form by Miss Kinnaird, who, by the win, may have dissolved any doubts about her (right to a place in the | Canterbury .Russell Grace team, to be announced this afternoon. The strangest .thing of all, perhaps, was ! that even while the game ] was slipping from her grasp [Mrs Cullen was still playing her usual steady game. ] Sue Boag continued her (fine form in the morning 'with a six and five victory. She had four birdies and .was one under the card. In i the afternoon, she did not 11 play quite so well, with her i putting, in particular, slipping. 1 She also had a tenacious | opponent in Mrs Lavery to 'contend with and although [Miss Boag finally won three [and two, Mrs Lavery kept [the game alive for a long i time with her accuracy off I the tee. Courage Mrs Bishop beat Judith Parkes two and one, but the lithe Mrs Parkes earned high ; marks for courage and the ; loss should not have dimmed her Russell Grace prospects. I? stomach upset, probably (caused by something she had eaten/made the round a | very trying one for Mrs i Parkes, but in spite of her (discomfit she played some (superb shots. ! On the par three eleventh.

.for example, she collected a 'birdie with a magnificent (drive to within a metre of' the flag — and this was' .minutes after she had 1 (suffered a bad attack. ] Mrs Bishop cleverly executed a testing approach shot from behind trees to] ■ win the match on the seven-] teenth green, although [Mrs Parkes very nearly took ■ the game to the eighteenth [before she narrowly missed her birdie putt. ■ Mrs Farquhar survived in! [a close struggle with Judy [ Davidson. Miss Davidson [was two up after three (holes, but Mrs Farquhar improved sharply to win the next four. After 11 holes, 'Mrs Farquhar was one up and it was not until the sixteenth that Miss Davidson (got on terms. [ However, Mrs Farquhar 'immediately went ahead again with a par four on the ■ seventeenth and Miss DavidIson’s last chance went when (she dropped short with her [birdie putt on the eighteenth green. ( Results:FIRST ROUND ! Miss S. Boag beat Mrs R. Clin- ; ton, 6 and 5; Mrs D. Lavery beat ■ Mrs S. Haydon at the 20th; Mrs. S. Bishop beat Mrs D. Ritehie, ( 5 and 4; Mrs J. Parkes beat Miss' S. Grigg, 4 and 3; Mrs N. Cullen, beat Mrs J. Parker. 6 and 5; Miss J. Kinnaird beat Miss D. Woodhouse, 6 and 5; Miss J. I ; Davidson beat Miss L. McClurg, j ; 6 and. 4; Ms R. Farquhar beat I ; Miss P. Marks, 3 and 2. SECOND ROUND Miss Boag beat Sirs Lavery. 3 1 and 2; Mrs Bishop beat Mrs! Parkes. 2 and 1: Miss Kinniard j 'beat Mrs Cullen. 2 up; Mrs; Farquhar beat Miss Davidson, 11 up. i