WOMEN'S GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1931, Page 11

WOMEN'S GOLF

RESULT OF SEMI-FINALS

MISSES KAY AND GAISFORD

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

ROTORUA, This Day

By winning their respective semifinals to-day, Miss O. Kay (Duncdin) and Miss B. Guisford (Marton) will contest the final of the New Zealand ladies' championship to-morrow. Both wins in the semi-finals were easy. Miss Gaisford beat Mrs. Guy Williams (Masterton), G and 0, and Miss Kay accounted for Miss E. M. Upton (Auckland), 7 and 6. Mrs. Williams did not win a hole, and Miss Upton only took two from Miss Kay.

Miss Kay took the first three holes in one over bogey figures, and the next two in bogey. The fourth was halved in s's, but three putts cost Miss Upton the fifth, which Miss Kay did in a "birdie." Miss Kay struck bunker trouble at the sixth, and took 5 for the bogey 3 hole. Miss Upton, with a 3, reduced the lead to 3 up. Miss Kay was now well in form, and took the next four in succession, with a "birdie" at the short ninth, where Miss Upton was laid a stymie,-and knocked her opponent's ball into the hole for a 2. Miss Kay took three putts to hole out at tho eleventh, which went to her opponent. Miss Kay, still 6 up, got a bogey at the next, to win the hole and tho match.

A notable feature of Miss Gaisford'a play against Mrs. Williams was her splendid long driving. She consistently out-drovc her opponent throughout, and steadily piled up a lead, to take the match at the thirteenth. Mrs. Williams was off form r 1 her putting was particularly patchy. On- several occasions she missed comparatively easy ones, the ball lipping tho cup no less than throe times. Miss Gaisford took the first and second holes in fours. Sho did a fine hole at the long fifth, holing a "birdie" to stand 3 up. Sho was on the edge of the green in two, covering 485 yards. Miss Gaisford won thi) short sixth in a bogey three, but Mrs. Williams improved over the next two long holes, which were halved in one over bogey. The ninth and tenth were won by Miss Gaisford in bogey, but Mrs. Williams was unlucky with her putts. The next three holes were halved in even pegging, and Miss Gaisford, with her lead of 6 up, took the match at.the thirteenth.