GOLF

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 4

GOLF

> „ — MIRAMAR CLUB. On Saturday afternoon the men's fours?m? n, cOllll6O^ 0!! with the Miramar bolf Club was decided. The best cards returned were:—P. B. Cooke and J. L. tStout, 1 down; L. D Hurst and N. Cheney, i own. M> w Horton and W. A. Kennedy, 2 down; N. A. Robieson and H. S. Hislop, 3 down; W T Wynyard and W. Barr, 3 down; G. O. Sutton and H. *B. Tomlinson, 4 down; T. H. Glendining and Major Hughes, 4 down. Playing off the ''tie," Messrs. Cooke and Stout won, with "a card "all square" with bogey. CHRISTCHURCH CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP. WON BY WRIGHT. (BT TELEGRAPH—PRPSS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 11th July. The final round of the Christchurch Golf Club's championship was played to-day at the Shirley links in excellent weather, B. B. Wood and H. E. Wright playing off in the afternoon. There was fi large number of spectators, and con,4kleruble interest was displayed in the proceedings. In the first round the two players were all square at the turn, after ovnn gome;, each registering 40. Wood won the *onth holo with' 4 to 5, but Wright succeeded in equalising the next with 5 to 4. Even play followed at the twelfth, but at the thirteenth Wright succeeded in gaining a lead which he held until the fifteenth hole, where WooU got level again. The next two were halved, and the last hole was won by Wright with 6 to 4, leaving him with a lrad of one up at the eighteenth. Wright started off in the second round with a lead of 1 up, and at the turn had increased his lead to 2 up. Even going resulted up to the tenth hole, which was halved with 5—5. Wright won the eleventh hole with 6. to 4, and Wood the noxt with 3to 4. At the thirteenth hole Wood was again successful, leaving him with 1 down. The fourteenth hole was halved in 4's, and Wright won the next with 5 to 6, giving him a lr-ad of 2 up. The sixteenth hole*was halved, but in tho seventeenth. Wright won easily, thus winning the championship with 3 up and 1 to play.