Golf nearly sabotaged
The Canterbury representative, Jim Lapsley, survived a determined bid to sabotage' his final round, to win the Nelson 54-hole stroke golf championship at the week-end. After teeing off at the tenth hole at the Nelson Club’s course, Lapsley watched with disbelief as a youngster on a bicycle shot across the course, picked up his ball and made off. But his frantic pedalling was not up to the speed of the sprinting Lapsley, and the youngster, seeing a ven-
gearice-bent Lapsley bearing down on him. decided to capitulate and handed back the ball. Lapsley went on to make the par five for the hole and returned a last round score of 77. This, with his two earlier rounds of 73 and 72 gave him a six-over 222 for the three rounds, and the title. The former Southland Freyberg representative Kevin Downie (Greenacres) was runner-up, five shots away on 227, with Peter Fox (Greenacres) third, with 230.
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