Golf

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 247, 16 July 1935, Page 14

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BRITAIN'S RYDER CUP TEAM: BRITISH WOMEN HAVE SAILED (Notes By, Niblick.)

Keen interest will attach on both sides of the Atlantic to this year’s inatch for the Ryder Clip between teams of professional golfers representing Great Britain and the United States, which is to be played in America .n September. The contest was instituted in 1927, and is played for every two years, and so far both sides have scored two wins. Britain regained the cup.at Southport in 1933, by winning by GJ games to 54. A Hardened Campaigner.

C. A. Whitcombe is a hardened campaigner on the British side, as he represented Great Britain against America in 1927, 1929, 1931 and 1933. Thirty-nine years of age. he has won numerous big championship events in England, including the “Daily Mail” tournament in 1924, the “Yorkshire Evening News” tournament in 1926 and 1928, the Gleneagles tournament in 1927, and the “News of the World” tourney in 1928 and 1930. He came third in the open championship this year, and finished fourth in 1932. fifth in 1922 and 1927. and sixth in 1923. He will captain'the British team this year. Percy Allis, who is a year younger than his captain, has represented Great Britain in international matches since. 1929, when he played against America in the Ryder Cup match, as he did again in 1933. He has been prominent in the British open for the past few years, finishing third in 1931. fourth in 1928. 1929 and 1932. and fifth in 1923. He appears to have a mortgage on the German open championship, as he carried off that title in 192 G, 1927,1928. 1929 and 1933. He also won the Swedish championship in 1931, and the “News of the World” tournament in 1933. Ho is a powerful driver. John Burton represented England against Ireland in 1933. in which year he won the Manchester and professional championship. He holds the professional record for the Porthcnwl links with 67. He is 32 rears of age. James Busson, wh'o is 28 years of age. served as a professional in the United States in 1930 and 1931,. He has the unique distinction of having holed tee shots twice in one round. This was at Painswick Glos, at the sixth (100 yards) and the seventeenth (2GO yards'). He is a long driver.

Evening News” tourney, when he broke the record for the Sand Moor course with 67, going out in 33, and returning in 34. He had three 2’s, two 3’e, ten 4’e, and three s’s on his card. Alfred Padgham has represented England in international matches since 1932. when he played against Scotland, and he played for Great Britain against the United States in 1933. He came second in the British open this year, with rounds of 70, 72, 74 and 71, being only four strokes behind the winner, A. Perry. Among Padgbam’s many triumphs are the “News of the World” tournament in 1931, and the Irish open championship in 1932. He came, fourth in the Open Championship in 1932, and was fifth in 1933.

British Women’s Team. New Zealand golfers have been singularly fortunate of late. We have had within the space of a year visits from Australian men’s and women’s teams, a team of British men amateurs, and Gene Sarazen, the world-renowned American professional.

And this year we are to enjoy a visit from a team of British women players, who are now on the water. The British team is a strong one, and will fully test the strength of Australian and New . Zealand women’s form, Mrs. Walter Greenlees is an experienced player, -with a long list of successes to her name. She won the Ayrshire ladies championship in 1930 and 1931. and the West of Scotland championship in 1932. She was a bronze medallist in the British ladies’ championship in 1931 and 1933, and a bronze medallist in the Scottish ladies’ championship in 1932. Mrs. Greenlees represented Scotland in international matches in 1925, 1930, 1931, and 1933. She holds the record for Crudon Bay with 75, and has done the fourth hole at Troon in one She is an adept at pitching. Though still in her ’teens. Miss Pam Barton, who has been runner-up for the past two years in succession for the British women’s open championship, will be one of the most interesting personalities of the team. Miss Jessie Anderson was girl champion in 1933, and, like Miss Phyllis Wade, has bfign in the forefront of women’s golf at Home for the past two years. Title Retained. Miss Joan Hammond, who visited New Zealand with a theatrical company a few months ago. and had some play on Wellington links, retained her title as champion of New South Wales last week by defeating Mrs. Clive Robinson, after a great struggle at the 37th hole. Mrs. Robinson, who was Australian champion in 1933, was 1 up at the end of the morning round, and 5 up at the 23rd, but Miss Hammond staged a remarkable recovery. Mrs. Robinson captained the Australian team which took the Tasman Cup from New Zealand at Auckland last year.

AV. J. Cox, the Addington professional, came ninth in the British open tins year, with rounds of 76, 69, 77, and 75. Of burly build, Cox was assistant to Henry Cotton at the' Waterloo Club, Brussels, for a time, and finished two strokes ahead of Cotton when he did a 6S in the “Yorkshire Evening News” tourney a few weeks back on the Southport links. The cables informed us that F. Jarman had been selected as a member of the British team, but this is more likely to be E. AV. Jarman, of Prenton, who finished fifth in the Southport tournament a few weeks back. He was in brilliant form in the first round of the “Yorkshire