Turner has best round

Press, 9 November 1984, Page 44

Turner has best round

NZPA staff correspondent Hong Kong

Greg Turner produced the best round out of 152 players from 38 countries in the world amateur golf team championships yesterday.

Turner fired a five-under par 67 to help New Zealand reach a creditable sixth place over all after the first day’s play. His brother, Glenn and his father, Alf, were on hand to watch a competent performance which included seven birdies from the 21-year-old Otago player who showed the skills honed over two and a half years on the competitive United States college circuit.

“I played well,” said Turner, who with yesterday’s round staked his claim to the individual best player’s title in the team championship for the biannual Eisenhower trophy, which will run over three further rounds this week. Turner birdied the first hole, and while getting his only bogey on the second, stayed cool and made par on every subsequent hole until he birdied the tenth. He followed up with birdies on the twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth and the tricky eighteenth, whose combination water and sand traps have undone several golfers at the Royal Hong Kong Golf club’s Fanling course.