LADIES' GOLF FINAL

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 6

LADIES' GOLF FINAL

WON "ON 38TH GREEN

MRS. DODGSHUX BEATS . / MISS KAY

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. /The final o£ the New Zealand ladies' golf championship was played between Miss 0. Kay (St. Clair, 'Dunedin) and Mrs. Dodgshun (Otago Club) at the Shirley links yesterday. The match resulted in a win for Mrs. Dodgshun on the thirty-eighth1 green. The golf of both players was excellent, but Miss Kay did not play up to her. best form of the tournament. Golfing conditions were little short of perfect, with an overcast sky and a slight nor'-west breeze.

The play in the first round was good, although hardly up to the standard set in earlier matches of the contest, and the approaching was not o£ a consistently deadly nature. Miss Kay was perhaps the better of the two from the tee, but on the greens their work was about on a par, Airs. Dodgshun's putting being rather better than that of her opponent. If this round had any persistent feature running through it, it must surely have been the approaching, which was not at all like the clean, regular work which both players produced in.r-earlier games. Both players started off with a bad hole, Mrs. Dbdgslmn fluffing a brassie and Miss Kay getting into a bunker, but the first was wan by Miss Kay, 5-6. The second and third were well played by both, and on the fourth tee Mrs. Dodgshun was 2 down. She lost this hole through getting into difficulties, but at the fifth Miss Kay's lead was reduced when Mrs. Dodgshun chipped to within four feet of the pin, winning the hole 5-6. Although hey opponent had been bunkered at the next hole, Miss Kay was laid stymie, and it was halved. The seventh and eighth holes were halved with fairly steady play on both sides. The card was squared by Mrs. Dodgshun at the ninth with another great chip to the pin. Miss Kay laid her ball dead too, but it was not good enough. Neither putt was up to the standard at the tenth green, and the score remained all square. ; Mrs. Dodgshim pulled into a bunker at the next hole, and it was won by Miss Kay with a perfect four. Both the twelfth and thirteenth were halved with fair play on both sides.

Miss Kay drove a beautiful long straight ball at the fourteenth, but her masliiu ran through, and after Mrs. Dodgs-hun had driven into the rough and failed to get on in two, the hole was won by Miss Kay,,making her 2 up. The next was played perfectly by Mrs. Dodgshun, who won it 3-4. Miss, Kay won the sixteenth rather luckily. Mrs. Dodgshun nearly sank a miraculous putt at the seventeenth, and she won the hole 4-5. The last hole of the morning round was halved,-both players going steadily for a four. This round left Miss Kay one up.

THE SECOND ROUND.

After lunch Mrs. Dodxshuu caino out on wonderful form, and although after the thirty-sixth the game was still all-square, it was evident that her putting was superior all the way. In approaching they were alike, but Mrs. Dodgshun was continually outdriving her opponent, and her play was a marked improvement on that of the morning. Starting out on the second round both ployed good drives and seconds, Mrs. Dodgshun landing herself in an awkward lie against a bunker,, but regaining her position with an excellent shot, ehe wan the hole 4-5, and the card was all-6quare. Miss Kay was stymied on the next green, and the hole was halved at the next short hole. A slightly superior drive from Mrs Dodgshun won her the hole, 2-3. Miss Kay got across the green and out of hounds at the twenty-second, losing the hole and putting herself 2 down. After having bunkered- at the twentythird, Mrs. Dodgshun extricated herself with a pretty shot and the hole was halved in 5. The next hole was won by Miss Kay, 5-6. Another stymie prevented Miss Kay from halving in 4 'at the twenty-fifth, and she fell back to 2 down Again the next hole was halved in 4 Mrs. Dodgshun pulling into the rough' but recovering with- a fine shot. "The Crossways" is a sliort hole, but Miss Kay failed to make the green. She lost the hole in 4-3, and was thus 3 down at the turn.

The next hole was one of the finest of the day. Both players were on in 3, Mrs Dodgslnm playing a fine second and the long putts went down clearly for fours ou« under bogey. Two more long putts went down on the twenty-ninth green and the players halved the hole in V Miss Kay won the next hole in 4 after a fine drive and a magnificent approach The thirty-first and thirty-second holes were halved in 3 and 5 respectively, aud the holes were similarly played by each | A bunker at the nest cost Mrs. Dodeshini the hole. After a halE at the thirty-fourth Miss Kay- won' the thirty-fifth with a good drive, a well-played second, qnd two putts, as against Mrs. Dodgshun's 5 Ihe match was now all-square, and both the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh were halved, the latter after a,magnificent putt from Mrs. Dodgshun. Trouble with a bunker near the thirty-eighth green cost Miss Kay the match. Mrs. Dodgshun's card in the morning read:—Out: 63365645' -40. In: 564453744-42. Miss Kay's morning card was:—Out: 533566453—40 In: 544444554—39. >

Mrs. Dodgshun went out in 36 and camp home in 39. Miss Kty did not .hole out a* Land's End," but' took 35 for the eight holes going out. : She came in in 36.