EXCITING GOLF AT ST. ANDREWS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 207, 29 May 1936, Page 11

EXCITING GOLF AT ST. ANDREWS

Play in Bad Conditions FERRIER HAS DESPERATE STRUGGLE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, May 27. A howling icy wind from the sea made conditions at St. Andrews utterly wretched for to-day’s play in the second and third rounds of the British amateur golf championship, and every hole played differently. Golfers were wrapped up as if it was mid-winter. It was St. Andrews in its sternest mood and the conditions obviously meant that many unaccustomed to such severity would be blown out of the championship. The first: sensation of the day was Tolley’s lapse against the Welshman Roberts. Tolley went out with a majestic 36 and there was then a land slide in Roberts’s favour. Tolley went all to pieces. Roberts, by taking three putts at the seventeenth, permitted Tol ley to square the match. Tolley missed a 3ft putt at the eighteenth but at the nineteenth sank a seven-yarder for tlie match. A great crowd accompanied Ferrier (Australia) against Braddon, a mem her of the advertising staff of a London evening newspaper, who was essaying his first championship. He plays a beautiful ball and is very accurate in his approach play. Both went out in 38 and turned all square. Ferrier lost the next three holes, being off the line with his drives, but won the next two through Braddon taking three putts at each green. Ferrier holed a t’ourvnrder at tlie fifteenth and a three yarder at the sixteenth, getting halves and downed a four-yarder at the seventeenth, squaring the match. The eighteenth was halved when Ferrier failed to sink a three-yarder. Critical Last Hole. Both had magnificent drives at the nineteenth and botli had superb seconds to within four yards from the pin. Ferrier had the first putt and laid the ball just on the edge of rhe hole. Braddon seemed nervous and took three putts of short distances, so that Ferrier won. He was visibly showing signs of strain. lie said: “It was a desperate struggle, and I was lucky to get through.” The Scottish champion, Hamilton, went down to the former Oxford champion Morrice. Tlie English champion. Bentley, had a very tough fight to beat the Irishman Gill. The defeat of Jack McLean in the fourth round was most surprising. Sweeny, a London-American, was 3 up at the eleventh, and was then dormy 2. McLean won the last two and halved the nineteenth, but Sweeny won the twentieth. Dr. Tweddel’s defeat was also surprising as he has just been chosen as captain of the British Walker Cup team against America. Thomson played brilliantly and was five under 4’s for the sixteen holes. Ferrier gave a magnificent display against Howell, who has eight times been the Welsh champion. The Aus traliah simply overwhelmed the Welshman, driving with enormous length and with his second shots covering the pin. Ferrier was out in 34, bis figures being 434444-134, and turned 5 up. He did the next four holes in 4344. Howell made some slips, occasionally taking three putts, but was devastated by his opponent’s finer golf. Third Round. Results are: Graham Smith beat Bryant, 2 up; Cameron beat Yardley, 5 and 4; Lyons beat Collins, 1 up; McCallum beat White, 4 and 3; Murray beat Mitchell, 1 up; Ewing heat Shepherd, 4 and 3; Wethered beat Bloomer, 4 and 3; Materson beat Morrison, 2 and 1; Chambers beat Illingworth, 3 and 1; Lindsay beat Stables, 1 up; Budd beat Oppenhe’mer 4 and 3; Martin beat Marshall Moffatt, 6 and 4; Patrick beat Brown. 1 up; Middleton beat Erskine, 3 and 2; Arana beat Tipping, 3 and 2; Whittaker beat Vlandy, 2 and 1; Scroggie beat Black, 1 up; Gordon beat Simpson Smith. 5 and 4; Jamieson beat Campbell, 3 and 1; McMaster beat Rusk, 3 and 2; Macpherson beat Buckley by a walk-over: Brown beat Prosser, 6 and 5; Thompson beat Brock, 7 and 5; Mitchell beat Brown. 3 and 2; Brodlie beat McKenzie, 2 and 1; Walk er beat MacGregor, 1 up; Ferrier defeated K. Braddou. at nineteenth: Turnbull beat Shaw, 5 and 3; Rutherford beat Ashworth. 5 and 4: McKay beat Henriques, 2 and 1: Bentley beat Gill. 1 up: Peters beat Thirst, 1 up: Morrice beat Hamilton. 4 and 3; Tolley beat Roberts, 1 up; Kyle beat Davenport, 6 and 5; Armstrong beat Harrison at the twentieth; Gowland beat Grey. 3 and 2; Aitken beat Delaney. 5 and 4; Penning beat L. W. Griffiths, 5 and 4; Praia beat Sutherland. 5 and 4; Risdon beat Grant, 6 and 5; Rankin beat Guest, 1 up; Haggard beat Anderson. 4 and 2; Holden beat J. A. Griffiths. 4 and 3: Fraser-Lee beat Watson, 4 and 3; Hill beat Bourn, 1 up; Dr. Tweddel beat Stevens. 4 and 2; McLachlan beat Cowley, 4 and 3; Anderson beat the Hon. Michael Scott. 5 and 4; Sweeny beat Lord Hope. 5 and 4; McLean beat Mackintosh. 4 and 3: Crawley beat Craddock, 2 and 1; Storey beat Robertson, 3 and 2. ■“minis beat Wood, (i and 4: McGloin beat Parkinson. 4 and 3; MeKinlay beat Torrace, 3 and 2: A. R. McCallum beat Smyth, 3 and 2; Dykes beat Anderson. 1 up: Lyle beat Hartley, 3 and 1; Williamson beat Harris, 3 and 1; Macdonald beat Fiddian, 1 up: Clegg beat Todd, I up; Howell beat McCredie, 1 up. Fourth Round. Ferrier boat H. Howell, 7 and 5; 11. G McCallum heal Lyon. 2 and 1 : Ewing beat W. Murray. 3 and 2; Wetliered bent Waterson. 2 and 1: Lindsay beat Chambers, 5 and 4: Turnbull beat Rutherford at the nineteenth; Bentley beat Mf-Ktiv. 6 and 5: Peters beat Morrice 5 and 4: Tolley beat Armstrong. 4 and 2; Aitken beat Gowland, 4 and 3; Cameron beat smith at the twentieth: Martin beat Budd. 3 andl: Middleton boat Patrick, 5 and 4: Arana beat Whitaker, 2 and I: Scroggie beat Simpson, 3 and 2; Brown bea* Macpherson. 2 up: Jamieson beat McMaster. 3 and 2 - Thomson boat Mitchell. 3 and 2; Walker beat Brodlie. 4 and 3: Hill boat Dr. Tweddel. 4 and 2; Kyle beat Penning 3 and 1 : Risdon beat Plain. I and 3: Fraser-I.eo boat Holder. 2 and 1; Sweenv beat McLean at the twen tielh: Timnds heal Micklem at the nine teenth MeKinlay boat McGloin, 2 and 1: Dykes beat A. R. McCallum. 4 and 3: Lyle beat Williamson. 4 and 3: Mae dona’ld bent Clegg. 6 and 4: Anderson beat McLachlan. 3 and 2; Storey bea: Crawley, I up: Haggard beat. Rankine. 1 up.