GOLF

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 237, 21 June 1926, Page 9

GOLF

-— WEEK-END CLUB MATCHES D. Q. WHYTE’S BRILLIANT ROUND 4 Golf was played among tho various clubs over tho week-end and under ideal conditions, and in one case at least (that of D. 0. Whyte) a phenomenal card was returned in a bogey match, MIRAMAR CLUB The handicap bogey match played nt Miramar resulted as follows: —D. 0. Whyte (2), 6 up; L. J. Egleton (12), i up; K. Duncan (2), 3 up; G. Magnus (9), and A. G. Williams ( 1 1), 2 up; H. Turner (15), J. 11. Drake (scr.), and C. H. Armstrong (5), 1 up; A. A. Stichbury (2), M. J. Crombie (7), and T. V. Crease (9), all square; A. D. S. Duncan (plus 2), and J. L. Fetloy (2), 1 down. J SIX UP-ON BOGEY D. O. Whyte, playing at Miramar in tho bogey handicap, played phenomenal golf, going round in 75 (nis card including a 6 at the first hole and n 7 at tho eighteenth hole). Ho finished 6 up on bogey, and his handicap has now been reduced to scratch. HUTT CLUB Tho following were the leading cards in a Canadian foursome, played by the Hutt Chib:- m ,■ t P. Wagg and Jack Wagg (a), i up; G. D. M. Goodwin and G. I. Dawson (8), 3 up; W. P. Coles and G. Findlay (13), 2 up; B. E. A. Jones and S. R. Riddler (14), . 2 up; L. A. Brookes and H. F. Manning (9), 1 up; M. Evans and A. M. Cousins (9), all square; J. A. Mitchell and E. C. E. Holinwood <9), al) square; E. C. Gorton and D. A. Ewen (12). all square; K. R. Mason and A. H. N. Smith (11), 1 down; A. J. Park, and I. C. Hemery (11). 1 down; W. Zander and C. Sander (14), 1 down, JOHNSONVILLE CLUB A bogey competition held by the Johnsonville club on Saturday rvas won by D. Swift, 1 up. An all-day inter-club match was played nt Johnsonville against Manor Park resulting in a win for the home team. A four-ball match was played in the morning and singles in the afternoon. •Results (home team mentioned first): Four-ball: Froome and Hawkes beat Cooke and McKenzie. 3 and 1;, Swift and Ellis lost to Stamp-Taylor and Butler, 3 and 2; Tomlinson and Hendry beat Williams and Ronald. 5 and 4: Pearson and Clapcott bent Norton and Barnard, 2 and 1; White and Gibson lost to Tremayne nnd Pankhurst. 2 and 1: Tressidar and Alexander beat Pone and Sherwood, 3 nnd 2. Singles: Froome and Cooke, nil square; Hawkes heat McKenzie. 1 u.p: Swift lost to Stamp-Taylor. 5 and 4; Ellis beat Butler. 3 and 2; Tomlinson beat Williams, 3 and 2; Hendry and Ronald, all square; Pearson beat

Morton, 4 and 3; Clapcott beat Barnard, 3 and 2; White and Tremayne, all square; Gibson lost to Pankhurst, 5 and 1; Tressider beat Pope, 6 and 3; Alexander beat Sherwood, 8 and 6. LADIES’ GOLF Following is the result oi a match between Waiwetu Ladies' Golf Club and Ranui Ladies’ Golf Club, played cn Saturday, Waiwetu, players being mentioned first: - Miss Robinson lost to Miss White, 2 down; Mrs. Evison beat Miss W. Davies, 3 up and 2; Miss Walters beat Miss Turner, 5 and 3; Mrs. Parkinson beat Miss F. Davies, 4 and 3; Miss A. Gaynor beat Miss Fair, 4 and 3; Mrs. Adamson beat Mrs. Murray, 1 up; Mrs. Whitehead lost to Miss Avery, 6 and 4; Miss Hanson beat Mrs. Bath. 4 and 3. Out cf the total number of games played, Waiwetu won six and lost two. CHALLENGE MATCH HAGEN BEATS MITCHELL London, June 18. Abe Mitchell (Britain) and Walter Hagen (U.S.A.) are playing a £5OO challenge match of 72 holes. Mitchell was 3 up at the end of the first round, and 4 up at the end of 36 holes. The American took the lead at the sixth hole, but Mitchell squared at the next, and took the lead at the eighth. Hagen won the ninth hole, turning all square. Four halves followed, Mitchell winning the fourteenth hole, halving the fifteenth. He also won the sixteenth and seventeenth holes, and halved the eighteenth. Mitchell won the first hole in the afternoon, halved the second, won the third, halved the fourth, picked up bis ball at the fifth hole, only 4 up, but recovered this at the ninth hole, turning 5 up. Hagen, winning the tenth and fourteenth holes, reduced his deficit to 3, but after halves to the eighteenth hole, where Hagen lay in a water-log-ged bunker, Mitchell finished the day 4 up. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . (Rec. April 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 19. Mitchell and Hagen were all square at the ninth hole in the third round. Hagen won the round, one up. Hagen won the match, 2 up and 1 to up.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP BRILLIANT PLAY BY B. JONES London, June 18. The open golf championship, for which 11, including F. z Popplewell (Australia), T. Howard (Australia), J. H. Kirkwood (U.S.A.), and ten amateurs, have qualified, begins at St. Annes-on-Sca (Lancashire), on Wednesday. Eighteen holes will be played on the two opening days (Wednesday and Thursday), after which players who are fifteen strokes and upwards behind the leader will be eliminated, and the remainder will play the last thirty-six holes on Friday. Excepting Howard, the Australian competitors—Kirkwood, Popplewell, Carnegie Clark, and Sinclair —had the disadvantage of playing in heavy rain, but made the best of their difficulties. A feature of the qualifying stage was the phenomenal brilliancy of Bobby Jones, whom Harry Vardon, Joshua Taylor, and Harold Hilton describe as the greatest golfer of all time. The newspaper “Star” describes ■ Jones’s play as the finest exhibition of golf in the whole history of the championship. He gave a magnificent example of the unison of head, heart, and hands. The “Evening News” declares he is "super-perfect-” The writer could . not recall another competition where an amateur in thirty-six holes returned only one s.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.