Golf victory would be good wedding present

Press, 9 November 1988, Page 72

Golf victory would be good wedding present

PA Auckland Victory in the New Zealand women’s golf championship would make a fine wedding present for Jan Cooke, of Tauranga. Cooke, who marries lan Higgins in three weeks, plans to move to Auckland, where her fiance is a greenkeeper at the Middlemore

course. The 23-year-old, runner-up in the strokeplay championship on Sunday, progressed yesterday to the matchplay quarter-finals in which she will play Jan Oliver (Lochiel) today. Cooke yesterday was given a tough secondround match by one of the youngest players in

the tournament, 16-year-old Lisa Aldridge, of Paraparaumu. Aldridge, a left hander, was level at the ninth, but by the fifteenth Cooke was two up. She looked likely to take the match on the next hole when Aldridge hit her second out of bounds. Undaunted, the Kapiti

College sixth-former played an immaculate iron to the green with her second ball and holed the putt. She escaped with a half as Cooke three-putted. Cooke missed another short one on the seventeenth and stood on the eighteenth tee only one up. A par gave Cooke the

match. “I was defensive all day,” she said later. Results:— First round: T. Hanson (Hutt) bt S. Farron (Manawatu) 5 and 4, S. Muldoney (Whangarei) beat A. Bond (Russley) 4 and 2, K. Pearce (Aust.) beat L. McFadgen (Hastings) 6 and 5, L. Douglas (Christchurch) beat J. Cook (Aust.) 3 and 2,

S. Higgens (Hamilton) beat M. Brooking (Muriwai) 2 and 1, J. Oliver (Lochiel) beat L. Shaskey (Waitikiri) 3 and 2, L. Aldridge (Paraparaumu) beat P. King (Akarana) 2 and 1, J. Cooke (Tauranga) beat A. Brabyn (Wanganui) 4 and 2, E. Cavill (Aust.) beat A. Laing (Grange) 5 and 4, J. Leech (Titirangi) beat D. Smith (Motueka) 3 and 2, L. Phillips (Blenheim) beat C. Kingham (Auckland) 4 and 3, I. van Steenbergen

(Flaxmere) beat H. Booth (North Shore) 3 and 1, L. Fairclough (U.K.) beat L. Sanko (Hastings) 6 and 5, M. Harper (Otago) beat J. Furby (U.K.) 3 and 2, J. Scandrett (Otago) beat T. Doonan (North Shore) 2 up, J. Little (Hamuranu) beat D. Woodhouse (Waitikiri) 2 up. Second round: Hanson beat McDowney 7 and 5, Pearce beat Douglas 1 up, Oliver beat Higgens 1 up, Cooke beat Aldridge 2 up,

Cavill beat Leech 5 and 4, van Steenbergen beat Phillips 3 and 1, Fairclough beat Harper 2 and 1, Little beat Scandrett nineteenth. Plate elimination: Farron beat Bond 2 and 1, McFadgen beat Cook 4 and 3, Brooking beat Shaskey nineteenth, King beat Brabyn 2 and 1, Smith beat Laing 5 and 4, Booth beat Kingham 5 and 4, Furby beat Sanko 3 and 2, Doonan beat Woodhouse 1 up.