FERRIER HAS TWO CLOSE MATCHES

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 11

FERRIER HAS TWO CLOSE MATCHES

British Amateur Golf ONLY OVERSEAS PLAYER LEFT IN FIELD By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, May 28. Genii' i sunshine and a light breeze favoured players in the fifth and sixth rounds of the British amateur golf championship. In the fifth round, Ferrier beat C. W. Timmis, 1 up; Cameron (U.S.A.) beat H. G. McCallum, 1 up; Ewing beat Wethered, 2 up; Thomson beat Brown, 6 and 4; Jamieson beat Dr Scroggie, 3 and 2: Martin beat Lind say at the 21st; Middleton beat Arana (Spain). 2 and 1; Walker beat Turnbull. 5 and 3: Peters beat Bentley. 2 and 1; Tolley beat Aitken, 5 and 4; Dykes beat McKinlay, 2 and 1; MacDonald beat Lyle, 2 and 1: Kyle beat Ridson, 2 and 1; Haggard beat Fraser Lee, 3 and 2; Hill beat A. S. Anderson, 2 up, Sweeny heat Storey, 2 and 1. In the sixth round Ferrier bear Sweeny, at the 21st; Hill beat Haggard. 2andl; Dykes beat MacDonald, 3 and 2: Ewing beat Cameron. 5 and 4; Martin beat Middleton, 3 and 2; Thomson beat Jameson. 1 up; Peters boat K. S. Walker. 2 up: Tolley beat Kyle, 2 and 1. The first surprise of the day was Wethered’s downfall at the hands of the Irishman, Cecil Ewing. Both drove a prodigious length hut when 1 up with five to play 'Wethered developed a disastrous hook whereas Ewing's long approach play was immaculate. The English champion. Bentley, was 2 down at the turn against Peters. He putted brilliantly on the homeward Journey, but his second shot landed in the roadway at the seventeenth and cost him the match. Golf Not Notable. Both Ferrier and Timmis played a little wildly in their match. Ferner turned 1 up after going out in 37. his figures being 545444434. Timmis took 3S. Ferrier was 2 up at the tenth but Timmis squared (he match at the thirteenth, where he holed a 20-yardcr for a 3. Ferrier became dormie 2. At the seventeenth he played a wild second, which ran through the green, across the road, and jumped the railway wall. Timmis won the hole easily. The las'; hole was halved. The match was not notable for quality. Ferrier’s homeward score was 39, the figures being 444444474, giving him an aggregate of 76. Timmis had an aggregate of 75. The Ferrier-Sweeny match attracted a large gallery. 'The first four holes were halved. Ferrier’s short game was faulty and Sweeny twice visited the rough. Ferrier won the fifth, Sweeny picking up after failing to get out of a bunker. Ferrier turned 1 up. The out-journey scores were: Ferrier 454554434—38, Sweeny 454571434—40 Ferrier was too strong with his second shots at the tenth and eleventh and Sweeny won both holes and took the lead. Ferrier, however, squared the match at the twelfth with a birdie 3 and took the lead again at the thirteenth, where Sweeny was in the rough. The next two holes were halved. The Australian won the sixteenth, to become dormie 2. Then at the dog-leg seventeenth he tried to cut off the corner and drove into the railway sheds. lie teed up again, and again landed out of bounds. His third was all right but Sweeny’s drive was down the fairway and when Sweeny played a safe second Ferrier picked up. He would probably have taken p. Finish of Long Struggle. Ferrier hit a colossal tee shot to the eighteenth, outdistancing the American by 40 yards, but Sweeny bad the better approach, landing thrqe yards from' the hole. He sank the putt for a 3, squaring the match. The home-, ward scores were: Ferrier 443454494 — 41, Sweeny 435454553—38. The nineteenth and twentieth were halved in par figures but the Australian won at the twenty-first when lie sank a long putt. Ferrier is the only overseas golfer remaining in. He meets Dykes in the quarter-final to-morrow. Tile best golf to-day was played by Hector Thomson. Ewing, also, continues to display sensational form. Thomson js now favourite for the title, with Tolley and Ferrier equal as second fancies. Tolley’s colossal driving to-day thrilled the spectators He hit pome shots which, aided by the | wind, were 340 yards long. Such • mighty hitting has not previously been seen at St. Andrews. FERRIER REACHES SEMI-FINAL Morton Dykes Beaten (Received May 30, 1.15 a.m.) London, May 29. In the quarter-finals Ferrier beat Morton Dykes, 3 and 2.