WINTER CUP GOLF

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 31, 31 October 1932, Page 10

WINTER CUP GOLF

Victory for Harold Black BROTHERS IN FINAL Win at Sixteenth Hole HUTT CLUB’S TOURNAMENT With a score of three up and two holes to play, H. A. Black, of the Miramar Club, defeated his brother, J. L. Black, of St. Andrew’s Club, Hamilton, in the final of the Hutt Golf Club’s winter cup tournament on Saturday afternoon. The semifinal play in the morning resulted in the elimination of A. G. Sime, of Westport, and T. K.McGregor, of the Hutt Club. From a /golfing point of view the weather was satisfactory, the finalists playing over moist fairways that led to sleek and true putting greens. In the semi-finals H. A. Black de* feated T. R. McGregor by 3 and 2, and J. L. Black accounted for A, G. Sime by 7 and 6. McGregor was a trifle uncertain from the tees in the early part of the game, and was 3 down at the turn. Though he came home in 36 he did not win a hole all’ the..way, as every one was halved till the game was finished. Black came back in 37 ; sinking many long putts. J. L. Black had rather an easy win over Sime. Black was very steady, going out in 36 and finally standing dorinie 8. Sime began to come back on his long game toward the end, and won a hole, but it was evident he wae feeling the effects of the game, having plaved comparatively little golf of late. The final between the Black brothers was followed by a fair-sized gallery, which was well repaid with an exhibition of good golf. It was a critical gallery, one which endeavoured to analyse those technical defects which make even the best-intentioned golfers sometimes go wrong. Runner-up Starts Well. J.L. started well and won the first hole in 4to 5. Steady s’s halved the second, after both players had been in the rough to the left of the fairway. Well-played 3’s were carded for the well-bunkered short third of 180 yards. At the fourth J.L. hooked his drive out to the left, and H.A. pushed his tee shot out to the right Both were on the green in 3, but J.L. had laid a stymie which H.A. was unable to negotiate. Winning the hole in 4to 5, J.L. went down the fairway to the fifth two up. There he ran through the green, and by sinking a seven-foot putt H.A. won the hole. The sixth made the game all square, H.A. holing out in 4to 5. J.L. struck trouble at the next, finding a bunker guarding tjje green. He chipped out too strongly and ran past the pin right through the green. Holing out in 3, H.A. took the honours, thus making him 1 up. He won the eighth in 4 to 6, and with a half in 4’s at the nine turned for home 2 up. On In Two At Tenth. Both players successfully piloted their way through the maze of bunkers guarding the tenth to reach the green in two. Fours halved the hole. J.L. made an error of judgment at the eleventh, where he found the bunker with his tee shot. He over-ran the green with his second. H. A. Black was on with his drive, and, sinking a six-foot putt, was down in 2 —one stroke under bogey. This gave him a lead of 3 up. Fours halved the twelfth hole. ... It was the putter that let both players down at the thirteenth, and s’» halved the hole. Both wtre equidistant with their drives down the fairway approaching the fourteenth hole. H.A. hooked into the rough to the left of the green with his second, and J.L. ran through the green and oyer the bank on the far side. Taking his niblick, H.A. chipped up beautifully to within-six inches of the pin, winning the hole in 4 to 5. The game now stood dormie 4. By winning the fifteenth in 5 to 6, however, J.L. managed to keep the game alive, and dormie 3 they went to the sixteenth. By halving that hole for 3, H.A. won the match 3 and 2, and with it the Hutt Winter Cup.