Auckland easily wins Russell Grace title

Press, 9 May 1980, Page 20

Auckland easily wins Russell Grace title

PA Hastings The Auckland women’s golf team won its fifth consecutive Russell Grace interprovincial teams’ championship when it beat WaikatoKing Country, 4-1, in the final round played at Hastings yesterday. The win gave Auckland an unbeaten record for a maximum 12 points to head off Canterbury and WaikatoKing Country who finished second-equal on nine.

The Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay team, although beaten in two round-3, finished in fourth position to improve on its fifth placing in- last year’s championship at Lochiel, Hamilton. Auckland dominated the tournament from the start, and out of 30 individual games, it dropped only 5J matches.

The team’s performance was epitomised .by its No. 1, Mrs Cherry Kingham, who for the first time in eight Russell Grace championships had six straight victories.

Mrs Kingham was unbeaten at the 1975 event, played at Invercargill, and the 1978 championship at Waitikiri, but this year was the first time she has recorded six wins from six matches. Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay’s No. 1, Kaylene Burns, was the only other player in the field to record six wins and she took the Eileen Nutt Memorial Badge for the best performance at the tournament from Mrs Kingham after a count-back on individual winning margins. Only, three other com-

petitors in the field of 80 players finished the tournament unbeaten. They were Canterbury’s Mrs Vai Cullen, a veteran of 31 Russell Grace championships, Bay of Plenty-Thames Valley’s Kaye Johnson and Northland’s Elizabeth Boleyn.

Canterbury performed solidly throughout the tournament and deserved its second placing, an improvemeht on last year’s performance when it finished third. The North and South Island women’s golf teams to compete at Miramar in a 54hole stroke tournament at Queen’s Birthday week-end were announced after the tournament. They are;—

North.— Janice Arnold (Waikato-King Country), Kaylene Burns (Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay), Jo-Ann Coffey (Waikato-King Country), Cherry Kingham, Kaye Maxwell ' (Auckland) and Brenda Rhodes (Bay of Plen-ty-Thames Valley); Reserves: Alison Hasey, Jocelyn Glanfield (Auckland). South. — Sue Bishop (Canterbury, Liz Douglas (Southland), Melanie Irvine (Otago), Debbie Randell (Nelson-West Coast-Marlbor-ough), Jan Scandrett (Otago), Anne Seed (South Canterbury). Reserves: Alison Bond (Canterbury) and Robin Low (Southland). ROUND SIX Canterbury v. Nelson-West CoastMJrlborough Mrs V. Bishop beat Miss D. Randell i up; Mrs A. Bond beat Mrs J. Parkes 4 and 3; Mrs S. Haydon beat Mrs B. Win 3 and 1; Mrs J. Ross heat Mrs A. Adams 3 and 2; Mrs N. D. Cullen beat Mrs J. Liddle 4 and 3. Can-

terbury 5, Nelson-West CoastMarlborough 0. South Canterbury v. Northland Mrs J. Kcllahan beat Mrs : A. Butler 1 up: Mrs N. Seed lost to Mrs S. Wells 2 down; Mrs J. Knight beat Mrs S. Gray 3 and 2; Mrs B. McCone lost to Mrs G. Dalbeth 6 and 5; Mrs H. Hames lost to Miss E. Boleyn 2 and 1. Northland 3, South Canterbury 2. Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay 5, Taranaki 0; Wellington 4. Mana-watu-Wanganui 1; Waikato-King Country 3. Bay of Plenty-Thames Valley 2; Auckland 4. Otago 1, ROUND SEVEN Canterbury v. Hawke's’ Bay- ' Poverty Bay Mrs V. Bishop lost to Miss Kaylene Burns 2 and 1; Mrs A. Bond beat Mrs D. Coles 2 and 1; Mrs S. Haydon halved with Miss Simpson; Mrs J. Ross beat Mrs G. Petersen 2 and .1; Mrs N."D. Cullen beat Mrs D. Hembrow 2 and 1. Canterbury 3>, Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay 111. Southland v. Nelson-West Coast; Marlborough Mrs W. R. Douglas lost to Miss D. Randell 4 and 2; Miss R. Lowe beat Mrs J. Parkes 4 and .2; Miss K. Allen beat Mrs B. Win 1 up; Mrs R J. Bishop Jost to Mrs A. Adams 1 down; Miss S. Taylor lost to Mrs J. Liddle 3 and 2. Nelson-West Coast-Marlborough 3, Southland 2. ■' South Canterbury v. ManawatuWanganui Mrs J. Kellahan beat Mrs J. Avling 3 and 2; Mrs N. Seed beat Mrs S. Symonds! 2 up; Mrs J. Knight beat Mrs C. Stewart 1 up; Mrs B. McCone lost to Mrs G. Westwood 4 and 3; Mrs H. Hames beat Mrs L. O'Connor 4 and 3. ' South Canterbury 4, Manawatu-Wanganui 1 . : ■ Auckland 4, Waikato-King Country 1: Bay of Plenty-Thames Valley. 3. Northland 2; Wellington 4, Taranaki 1.

Final points, with individual wins shown in brackets, were.— Auckland 12 <24J), Canterbury 9 (19), Waikato-King Country 9 (16). Hawke’s Bay 8 (21)„ Northland 8 (18?.i, Otaao 7 (.16)'. Bay of Plenty-Thames-Valley 6’(16), Wellington 6 (15!.). South Canterbury 6 (15). Nelson-West Coast-Marlborough 6 (12.1). Southland 1, ManawatuWanganui 0 (6), Taranaki 0 (4).