GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 64, 12 September 1924, Page 8

GOLF

MIDDLEMORE TOURNEY

SEMI-FINALS IN THE AMATEUR

MOSS'S GOOD POSITION IN

PROFESSIONAL.

(BT TELEORAPH.) (From "Baffy," "The Post's" Special Reporter.) : OTAHUHU, This Day. In the morning round of the amateur semi-final match between Gunson (Maungakiekie) and L. Quin (Eltham), neither playo.fl up to previous form in the competition, and failed to break 80 for eighteen holes. Each showed distinct weakness,. Gunaon being erratic^ frequently; with his tee ahots, and Quin conspicuously poor in putting. Gunson took : the first hole in 5 t0.6; the next was halved in 5; the third was secured by Gunson in 4 to 5. Then at the fourth the Aucklander pulled his drive over the plantation fence, and his penalty ball i was lost in a muddy gulch. He gave up | the.hole. Gunson. took the sixth in 4 |to 5, halved the seventh in 3, and'won the eighth in 5 to 6. The ninth was halved in 5, leaving Gunson 3 up at the turn. The tenth and. eleventh were taken -well by Gunson in 3 to 4.and 4 to 6 i respectively. The twelfth'was halved in 5._ Quiii, whose green work had improved, got the thirteenth in 2 to 3,. with I a beautiful long: putt, and also took the. i fourteenth and fifteenth each in.4 to 5. The remaining three holes were each halved in 5. the round finishing Gunson 2 up. ' The feature of the Goss-Lusk match was the number of short pulta missed, by the former, while several times holing Jong ones. Gosb won the first hole, but lost the second after missing a. 2ft, 6iu putt tor a"4.--However, at the third' he sank an Bft putt, and this ancL.the next two holes were halved, Goss missing a 2ft puttfor a win at the eighth. Lustwon the ninth in 5 to 6, making tho game all-square at the turn. Goss missed a foot putt for a. win at the tenth, and drove into the shrubs at the edge of: the river bank at the next, costing him a penalty stroke. Lusk...won the hole, becoming 1 up, but lost; the twelfth through' striking trouble in the rough—all-square. : Lusk won the thirteenth,, fourteenth, and fifteenth, Goes each time missing short putts for- a i. Goss won the sixteenth, playing a pretty approach.: putt. The seventeenth was halved, and Goss, getting a really beautiful tee shot, the second best of the round, won the eighteenth, leaving him l.down on the ; morning's play. Iti was not very impressive: golf, Lusk's score for tho round being 81 and Goss'b 83. : ,■ Moss played: splendid golf against M'lntosh in ,tho professional final, and led 5 up at the turn and 3 up at the eighteenth. . M'lntosh missed .several putts;early in the round, but improved in putting later..