GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 11

GOLF

IN BETTER WEATHER PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS MANY CLOSE GAMES Conditions wero good for the .first round of the Wellington amateur provincial championship at Heretaunga to-day. Tho weather, which threatened to continue unkind, lifted to a dull day without wind, and the course was in better order than on tho first day, the greens and fairways being more even, while the golf was exciting. It is seldom that so many games go past tho 18th hole in championship play, and tho cards wero on the wholo better than is usually seen in such close games. FIRST EOUND. ' G. Colbeek (Middlemore) beat E. O. Chesney' (Wellington), 3 and 1. J. B. Parker (Wellington) beat H. J. Shanks (Mornington), 1 up. J. T. Tucker (Wellington) beat J. W. Ward (Wellington), 1 up at the 19th. H. A. Black (Miramar) beat J. B. MacEwan ("Wellington), 1 up at the 19th. A. D. S. Duncan . (Wellington) beat V. G. Ehind (Wellington), 5 and 4. L. D. Hurst (Miramar) beat H. P. Bluiidell (Wellington), 3 and 2. D. O. Whyte (Wellington) beat E. 0. Hales (Wellington), 1 up at the 20th. Rana Wagg (Hutt) beat J. H. Drake (Miramar), 1 up at tho 19th. NOTES ON PLAY. The game between Black and MacEwan was closely fought, MacEwan squaring the game at the 18th. Black was only 1 up at the turn, after going out in 39. Black won the 10th in 4, MacEwan the 12th in 4, and Black the 13th in 4, but MacEwan won tho next two in 3's. The 16th and 17th were halved in 4's. MacEwan won the 18th in 4, sinking a long putt. Blaok won the 19th in 4. Chesney and Colbeek had a close tussle. The Hutt player had the best of the game in ' the early stages and was 2 up at the sixth, but Colbeek had squared the match at tho turn and won the next two holes. He took the fifteenth in 2, and, though Chesney took the sixteenth in 3, tho game ended in Colbcck's favour at the seventeenth —3 and' 1. ... .■ Parker and Shanks had a^ close game, Parker winning 1 up with cards respectively of 74 and 77. Parker >yas-3 up at tho turn, but Shanks won tho eleventh, thirteenth,' and fourteenth, squaring the match. Parker won the fifteenth in 2, and tho sixteenth in 4, and finished 1 up. Parker got a 2 at tho fifth, and both took the seventeenth in 3. Tucker and Ward wont to tho nineteenth, whore Tucker won. Ward was 2 v pand 4 to go, but Tucker came back with good figures, and won his match. ' ;. ; Duncan was 2 up on Bhiivd at the turn, and won 5 and 4. Whyto won at the twentieth from Hales. Botli were out in 39, and the match was squaro at tho turn. Hales won tho twelfth. Whyto won tho thirteenth and fourteenth, and was then 1 up. ■ The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth were halved. Hales won the eighteenth in 4, and squared tho match. The ninteenth was halved in 5, and Whyte won tho twentieth in 4. Hurst was 1 up at the turn on Blundcll, after an even run. Tho twelfth saw him 3 up, but his opponent won the thirteenth. Hurst won the fourteenth, and the fifteenth and sixteenth wero halved, Hurst winning 3 and.2 after a run of good play, coining back in 35. Wagg and Drake had a spirited battle.' Wagg was lup nt tho turn, and later found himself 2 up and 4 to go. Drake won tho fifteenth, whero Wagg took threo putts. Tho sixteenth was halved in 3. Drake won tho seventeenth, whore Wagg again had trouble on tho groen. Both missed oasy 4's at Hie eighteenth, and went on, Wagg winning tho nineteenth in 3.