HUTT GOLF TOURNEY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 10

HUTT GOLF TOURNEY

THE SEMI-FINALISTS

SOME CLOSE GAMES

Though most of the games in the second round of the Hutt Winter Cup, at the Hutt Golf Links yesterday, were never long in doubt, none of them were walk-overs. The semi-finals to-mor-row should prove interesting. Perfect weather yesterday made all the competitions pleasant, and the course improved every hour. SECOND ROUND. D. 0. Whyte beat W. G. Fisher, 3 and 2. D. C. Collins beat H. K. ■ Adamson, 3 and 2. M. Duncan beat W. G. Martin, 1 up. K. Wagg beat R. G. Hayward, 4 and 3. Why te led 3 up at the turn from W. G. Fisher, but the latter, having taken the- ninth in 2, came back in a. string of good holes, beating bogey on handicap over seven holes, and kept his position, Whyte winning 3 and 2. AVhyte's card was 79 and Fisher's 84. Adamson is always a hard proposition, and gave his shorter handicapped opponent some anxious moments. Collins was 1 up at the eighth, but put his tea shot in the lako at the short ninth, getting under the ball.' This put him on his mettle, and Adamson gradually dropped back. Duncan met a good1 golfer in, Ma?tiu. Both play a good long game, with the advantage to Duncan in iroil play, and so the. game was really decided round the greens. Duncan was 2up at the turn, but Martin played very steadily j thereafter, and at the seventeenth Duncan's lead was reduced to .1 up. Martin found the bunker at the last hole, and got barely out. Duncan was too strong with his approach. putt from a perfect iron shot, and missed his 4, winning by 1 up. Wagg had occasional jolts from Hayward, but was never seriously in danger. Collins meets Whyte, and Duncan | meets Wagg, in the semi-finals to-mor-row morning. The final will be played in the afternoon. GROUP COMPETITION. The first and second rounds of the group competition were played.yesterday. First Round. First Group:—J. Jameson beat F. C. Bunny, 3 and 2; M. J. Crombi-e beat G. H. Scott, 2 and 1; E. B. Coote beat W. Coles, 1 up; J. Broad beat 31. Blundell, 3 and 1.

Second Group.—D. Bohan beat J. G. Hughes, 3 and 2; C. Watt beat W. C. Wedderspoon, 5 and 4; T. Pain beat 11. N. Burns, 3 and 2; G. C. Phillips beat W. M'Ghie, 2 and 1. Third Group.—T. Kincaid beat E..J. Atkinson, 3 ana 2; A. James beat S. A. Wiren, 3 and 1; H. Hanson beat L. Monkman, 2 and 1; E. S. Johnston boat E. Jones, 1 up. Second Bound. First Group.—J., Broad beat E. E, Coote, 5 and 4; J. Jameson beat M. J. Cronibie, 5 and 4. Second Group.—D. Bohan beat C. Watt, 2 and 1; D. C. Phillips beat T. Pain, 1 up at the twenty-first. Third Group.—T. Kincaia beat A. James, 1 up; B.1 S. Jo%nston beat H. Hanson, 1 up at the twentieth. Tho finals will be played to-morrow. BOGEY COMPETITIONS. T. Payne and E. G. Hayward tied in the morning bogey 2 down. Hayward won the play-off. W. G. Fisher was thii. winner of the afternoon bogey. BUSY DAY TO-MORItOW. Plenty of competitions await visitors to-morrow, when tho excellent spacing of the holes for length will- probably have it try-out with a full number of players.