DROVE INTO GEYSER

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 290, 2 September 1933, Page 9

DROVE INTO GEYSER

Golf Hazard at Rotorua CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Rotorua, September 1. ' The Rotorua Golf Club’s open championship was won to-day by H. B. Lusk (Auckland), who defeated F. Fryer East Coast) 6 and 5 in the flnal match, which was played under perfect golfing conditions. It was a triumph of steadiness for the veteran Lusk, who never deviated from his game over the whole distance. Fryer drove a particularly long and accurate ball throughout, but his putting was patchy, and this lost him the match. He turned 4 down at the 18th, and Lusk maintained his game to win comfortably. There was an unusual coincidence during the match when Fryer hit his tee shot at the ninth into a small mud geyser which had erupted in a hazard on -the ninth green. ,He took three to get out, and gave up the hole. On the second round in the afternoon he did exactly the same thing, the ball landing In a scrape left at his first visit. He again took three and gave up the hole. , ( ' The winner, Lusk, was a runner-up in tlie championship last year, and will compete in the New Zealand veterans’ . tournament, which opens here on Tuesday. Record entries have been received for this event, in which veteran golfers from all parts of the Dominion will compete. . The Thermal Cup was' won by' the youthful Bulls player, N. Amon, who defeated W. Greenbank (Akarana) by one putt on the 36th after a very close and interesting match.