SEAFIELD GOLF TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 28, 28 October 1926, Page 12

SEAFIELD GOLF TOURNEY

J. GOSS BEATS H. L. BLACK. Dominion Special. Wanganui, October 27. The Seafield amateur golf championship was played this afternoon between J. Goss (Wanganui) and H. L Black (Hutt). The first hole was halved m Us. Black won the second in 4to 5. Goss won. the next in 5 to 6, Black the next with a 4 and the fifth in 5, leaving him 1 up. Goss got in a ditch at the sixth with bis second, Black taking the holo. Black. 2 up. The short seventh was halved in 3. Goss won the eighth with a bogey 4. The ninth was halved in s’s and the tenth in bogey s's. The eleventh was halved in bogey Us. Goss won the twelfth in bogey 3. . At the thirteenth Goss drove into The Quarries.” picking out with a penalty of 1 stroke. Black also played badly and the hole was- halved in 6. Both played good firsts and seconds at the fourteenth, the hole being halved in 5. At the short hole Goss took three putts nnd lost the hole. Black, 1 up. Both played well at the next hole, which they halved in bogey 5. At “The Problem” Goss threw away a flood chance of squaring the match by missing a 3ft. putt for 4 and he was still 1 down. At the eighteenth both drove well. Goss put his second nicely on the green, Black being well to the right. Goss took the hole in 4 and squared the match. At the nineteenth Goss both drove well and nlayed his second on to the edge of the trreen and chinped to within 2in. of the hole. Black, however, holed a sft. nutt for a 4. Playinir at the twentieth, both again drove well. Goss’s second found him 2vds. from the edge of the green. Black smothered his second. Go«s chipped on to the green and holed his putt for a 4, taking the match nt the twentieth.

The- final game for the Springvale Cup between J. Aldred ami T. Howie was won bv the Aucklander. Aldred, by 3 up and 1 to play.