AMATEUR GOLF

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 11

AMATEUR GOLF

N.S.W. Championship BRINSDEN DEFEATED Bettington beats Ferrier By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Rec. June 23, 8.20 p.m.). Sydney, June 23. The semi-finals in the State amateur golf championship were played to-day and resulted:— Dobson beat Brinsden, 5 and 4. Bettington beat Ferrier, 3 and 2. The New Zealander, Brinsden, gave Dobson a great game, but struck the New South Wales player right on his game. Both were in the bunkers at the first hole. Brinsden played out into the second bunker, but halved the - hole in 4. Dobson topped his second s at the next and Brinsden won 4 to 5. Dobson took three putts at the third ■ and Brinsden won by par 3 to 4, to ; become 2 up. Brinsden was in the bunker with his second at the fourth hole, while Dobson’s second was a yard from the pin. Dobson won with a birdie 3. The match was squared at ■ the fifth, when the New Zealander’s drive was caught in a bunker. The ■ sixth 'was halved in par 3’s. At the : seventh Brinsden’s approach was nearly buried in a' bunker, Dobson winning 5 to 7. Brinsden was again in the bunker at the eighth and failed to get ■ out, Dobson going to 2 up. At the ninth Brinsden brilliantly negotiated a stymie from six feet to gain a half in par 4’s. Brinsden was again bunkered at the tenth. The New Zealander recovered to within four feet of the pin, but missed the putt and lost the hole 4 to 5. Dobson 3 up. A great second at the next put Dobson on the green. Brinsden had a long putt for a half. The ball went in and out again. Dobson 4 up." The twelfth was halved in par 4’s after Brinsden had just missed a forty-footer for a win. Dobson went 5 up at the thirteenth, taking only one putt. A good approach putt by Brinsden gave him a win at the next in par 3to 4. The fifteenth was halved in orthodox s’s. Dobson topped his brassy at the sixteenth, Brinsden winning sto 6. Dobson was now 3 up. Brinsden missed a very easy putt at the seventeenth for a win. A half resulted. Brinsden pushed out his second at the eighteenth and Dobson won 4to 5. Dobson was 4up at lunch time. Dobson Increases Lead. A good approach putt gave Brinsden the nineteenth 3to 4. Brinsden was in trouble with hip drive at the twentieth and lost the hole sto 6. Dobson still 4 up. The twenty-first was halved in par 3’s. At the twenty-second Brinsden’s second was deeply buried in the pot and Dobson won the hole sto 6. Dobson now 5 up. Brinsden hooked his drive into the grass at the twemy-third and then drove his brassey into a deep bunker. He recovered well, however, and downed a ten-foot-er for a win 4 to 5, Dobson taking three putts. Dobson 4 up. Both were on the green at the twenty-fourth with their tee shots. Brinsden ran down a long putt for a birdie 2 and a win. Dobson 3 up. Dobson retaliated at the next hole by sinking a fifteen-footer for a birdie 4 and a win. Dobson 4 up. At the twenty-sixth Brinsden holed a six-yard-er for a half. Dobson went to sup at the twenty-seventh, when the New Zealander missed an easy putt. The twenty-eighth was halved in par 4’s. Brinsden reduced the margin to 4 by winning the next 4to 6. He also \ notched the thirtieth 4to 5. Dobson 3 up. Dobson hit the flag with his approach at the thirty-first and holed out for a birdie 4 and a win. The match finished on the thirty-second, Brinsden taking three putts and Dobson winning the hole 3 to 4 and the match 5 and 4. Bettington’s Fine Play. Bettington revealed the best golf in his career to defeat the champion Ferrier. At the end of the first nine holes Bettington was 4 up. The other five holes were halved. Ferrier won his flr§t hole at the tenth, but Bettington won it back at the eleventh. At the thirteenth Ferrier holed out a fortyfeet chip shot for a half. At the 'end Of the first 18 holes Ferrier was 5 down. His long game was all right, but he was playing his approaches badlv. The approximate strokes for the round were: Bettington, 70; Ferrier. 77. About 2000 people followed the game after lunch, considerably hampering the players. Ferrier started sensationally, sinking a thirty-footer for an eagle 2 at the nineteenth, and be gained another 2at the twentieth. He was now only 3 down, an'd that was the difference at the turn. Ferrier won the twenty-eighth and Bettington the twenty-ninth. The next two were halved. Ferrier won the thirty-second after Bettington was in the bushes. Ferrier was now 2 down with four to play. The thirty-third was halved. Bettington recovering brilliantly and sinking a long putt. The end came at the thirty-fourth, when Betrington holed a very long putt for a birdie 4 and won the match 3 and 2. The finals will be played on Saturday over 36 holes. RANA WAGG’S- LAPSE Play in the Foursomes COMMENT ON GAMES Commenting on the New South Wales foursomes the Sydney "Referee” says:— Harry Hattersley and Mtrvyn Garland are the foursomes champions of New South Wales. They took the title after a tie with two other members of the Manly (N.S.W.) club. Erie Apperly and Walter Sturroek. The game was played uu the Royal Sydney chib’s course, and each pair had an aggregate 150 over 36 holes. In the play-off of 18 holts the winners were round in 79 to the other pair’s 86. This further taste of blood may revive Hattersley’s enthusiasm for the” game. No one in the country could hold this young man if he would only harness his power to his clubs in a slightly more reliable way. Garland now holds two State foursomes titles, having come home a winner with Brown in the \>u< onsland »vent last month. Foursomes, says the “Referee,'’ after a general description of the contests, is ■ a peculiar game. There is apparently some one characteristic which is essential to make a really good foursome player. It is most probably imp: rturbability. Those that have it are not ' upset by their own or their partner's bad shots, and are able to take the rough , with the smooth. Bettington and Cutler, after a 76 m I the morning, had a fine chance. On their own course they looked to be well , in it. They had better figures to the < fifteenth after lunch than they had to 11

the same spot in the morning—and finished with 79. Rana Wagg and Harold Black (New Zealand) will never clean a ball on the green again without close scrutiny of the iocal rules. Wagg wiped the ball on the twelfth green. It cost them two strokes —after which, to use Wagg's own expression, they “blew up.” They took 46 coming home after being out in 36. Their fellow countrymen Silk and Hornabrook were solid with two 77's. but lacked brilliancy. The way they putt and drive, these two boys, aged 21 and IS respectively, should have been higher up the list. But this is foursomes. , The winners. Hattersley and Garland, looked like having a meteoric score over the first IS holes. Their start w.i3, 3, 3. Such a run is dangerous. A 7 at the par 3 sixth stopped them and they finished the round in 78. They blasted the ball from one bunker on one side of the green to another, the other

side and back again. The redoubtable Fawcett a counle of years ago put on a 9 at that hole.