RESULT OF FOURSOMES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 14

RESULT OF FOURSOMES

OTAGO PAIR GET HOME SOME EXCELLENT GAEDS (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. The Dominion foursomes championships to-day saw the Wellington brothers, Jack and Harold Black, put up a line score in their morning round for the rest of the field to shoot at. In a way it was a repetition of Saturday afternoon, when five different players had chances of equalling the 305 which' Shaw had handed iv To-day the local couple, Dr. Ross and C. B. Wight, picked up five strokes on the two Blacks, and-, finished in-the. aggregate three strokes aW- of them. Another pair, Morpeth amTMacbeth, also started two strokes behind the Blacks and picked up three strokes on them; in the afternoon, finally leading them by one stroke. Simo and B. V. Wright, whose morning. round had been. 78, also had a chance for the foursomes championship in the afternoon, but they failed a tew holes from home. Rain fell in heavy showers all day, and the wind was fitful. After the rain of the previous twenty-four hours there a good grip on the greens, and putting to-day was a different matter from what it has been in the previous week. J L. and H. A; Black were the second couple to.start iff-the amateur foursomes, They made few. mistakes the whole way round, and, of course, yoked well together, doing a 75. Here are their figures:Out: 444454414—37. In: 30544433&-3 S. For the two 6's coming in they made up by the two birdie 3's at the 10th and l<th. FURTHER GOOD CARDS. Close .on . their heels came Ross and Wight, whose card was spoiled by a 5 at the'third .(205 yards); and by two G s on the'inward journey. On the other hand, they, had a birdie 3 at the ninth (320 yards) and a birdie 2 at the J7tn (KU yards).; Details:— Out: 455344553-t3S. In: 464635425—39. With their 77 they took second place. Presently Morpeth and Macbeth, both players'from-the North, joined them in second •place: \Thoir 77 likewise showed two 6's coming in, along with a birdie I at the fourth: Their .figures were:— : . Out: 553254445-37. ' In: 454034446—40. ', ' Sime arid B. V. Wright played .steady golf for a:7B. Sime missed a couple ot putts, ;but also holed a couple, of long ones, including a ten-yarder on the second green for a. birdie. 3. . These werel the. leading scores at luneli time:— , j. L. and H. A. Black 75 Ross and Wight >J Morpeth -and Macbeth '' Sime and Wright '8 THE AFTERNOON'S PLAY. In "the afternoon the lasfci three couples set oufto:eatch.up the Blacks. The Wellington brothers got away well with four 4's, but they took 40 to reach the turn. Coining in they had three 3's but also a 6 and two 7's for 42, and so their aggregate of 157 was. easier to overtake, and the Otago couple closely following them achieved this with steady golf, marked, however, by putts occasionally missed. Their second round was:— Out: 444444455—38. In: 465534444-39. This 77 put Dr. Ross and wight at once;in the lead with 154. The question was: Would Morpeth and Macbeth beat that? A small .group of spectators, despite the weather, were following this couple. The open champion and his part-ner-seemed to be well set for the best round of the day. A birdie 3 at the second, gave them some help, and their figures to the turn were 434344544—35. With 4 5 5 for the first three holes coming in they seemed to have.a 75 well within their range. Then came the eras!}. Macbeth' put his drive in the rough at the thirteenth. Morpeth put it out into the hollow 100' yards from the green. Their third was just short. Their fourth just got.oii, and they then took four putts and put an 8 on their card. After that they: were 3 4 '5 4 to the seventeenth, where they' were only 5 over 4's for the round. They needed a par 4 for the last hole! in order to tie with.. Ross and Wight. Morpeth hit a long drive, but pulled it in his effort for distance. . The ball found the ditch which- separates > the eighteenth fairway from the first. They had to pick up, incurring-a penalty stroke. A 6 at 1 thatl hole gave them, a 79. Morpeth,holed,a. 12-footer for a 3 at the fourteenth' and 10ft. for a 4 at the fifteenth. .' .■'• ■.... _ . With a fighting chance still luring them on, Sime and -Wright reached the twelfth green in 3 over 4's.. If they could, do the ]aßt six holes ■, in even 4's they would finish in 75 and oust' Ross and Wight by one stroke. They-failed to grasp their opportunity whSn ■; a. couple of s's and a• 6' crept on to • their card, although they finished with two .fine ,45.... THE PROFESSIONAL MATCH. The professional foursomes championship partook of the'natnre ofa^chase'also, for the Galloways, fattier and son, although the "Auld Yin" looks young enough for 40, played so well together that they handed in a 74 in the morning. Here are the details: — Out: 444444454—37. In: 343444645-37. An ordinary par 4 at the sixteenth would have given them a 73. A. .T. Shaw and J. A. Clements' had a 75. Details:— Out: 353454445—37. In: 454544534—38. The Galloways declined in the afternoon and took 82, while Shaw and Clements supplemented their 75 with a good 77, winning with the aggregate of 152.