AMATEUR GOLF FINAL

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 10

AMATEUR GOLF FINAL

DEFEAT OF WETHERED MID-ENGLAND GOLF (Specially written for "The Evening Post" by Donald Grant.) ■ Once again the younger school of golf has prevailed over the older. Last year, at Hoylakc, Dr. Twcddell in tho final defeated D. E. Landale quite decisively, and now on Saturday last T. P. Perkins beat Roger. Wcthcred in the final. Tweddeli is about fifteen years younger than Landale, who is 42, and Perkins, 23 years of age, is six years the junior of AVcthered. « , In my notes which appeared on Saturday last I ventured to think that AVethered, Perkins, M'Qallum, and Lang would be the semi-finalists. We know that the first two have been beaten, but we have been left without any news about tho other two sumi-finalists. Wethered was the favourite, I should say, as he was last year, but Tweddeli beat him then by 4 and 3, and now Perkins has disposed of him by 0 and 4. This is the greatest achievement yet recorded by T. P. Perkins, but it looks as if he might achieve greater things yet. This victory in the amateur championship puts Perkins into the British Walker Cup team as leading player. In the past two years he has established himself as one of the best half-dozen players in Britain, and this latest victory has marked him down as the first. Last year he was English champion, and he may still possess that ti£le, for the result of the English championship played in April has not been communicated to us. In the open championship, 1927, his aggregate for the 72 holes was 300, which enabled him to tie with W. B. Torranco as first amateur. T. P. Perkins is a product of the golf of midEngland, being a member of the Castle Bromwieh Golf Club. It is a curious fact that Dr. Twoddeil, last year 'a champion, also represents the Midlands, as does Erie Tiddian, the boy champion. Perkins is a long driver, and very accurate in pitching and putting. He seems to bo what is called a "natural golfer." Eoger Wothered is the. only golfer who has twice in the past four years figured among tho last eight in the championship. Last year he reach.cd the semi-final, and this year the final. Wethered's greatest years' were the years 1920-23, and his greatest triumph was in the championship of, 1923 at Deal, when he played magnificent golf. About his Walker Cup match with Ouimct in 1923 Bernard Darwin writes: "For sustained excellence of golf between two amateurs I have nover seeii it excelled, I hardly think equalled, and Mr. Ouimet's finish, by which he managed to halve the match, was beyond all praise. To be 2up with three to play at St. Andrew's, to finish with three 4's ami only to halve the match, this was Mil.l Wethered's fate, and it seems a hard one. Mr. Ouimet finished in 343." In 1921 AVethered tied with Jock Hutchison at 29G for the title of open champion, but ho lost the play-off. He has played in practically every representative iuternational match, both for England, and for Britain, since 1921. He is 29 years of age, and should be a force in first-class golf for another twenty-nine. I notice that the final was an allEnglish event. Although there wore fivo Scots in the' last eight, none of tho fivo could equal Perkins, and AVothered for power and experience. lustralian Tress Association—tJuitee) Scrrlc*. LONDON, 26th May. In the amateur golf championship final, Perkins, who was 2 up at the end of the morning round, defeated Itoger AVethered by 6 up to 4 to" play.