NOTES ON THE PLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1932, Page 3

NOTES ON THE PLAY

A close match, was seen Between the No. l's. Drake was in fine form, and completed the outward journey in the excellent figure of 34, with a thirty-foot putt for a 3 at the sixth as about the only bit of luck in it. His card out was 443443453, and he was 2 up at the turn on Duncan, who started with a 6. The tenth and eleventh were halved in 4's, but both were in trouble after their seconds at the twelfth, which was halved in 6's. Duncan took the next in 5. The next two were halved in 3's, Drake saving himself from a tee shot that landed just on the top of the bank at the fifteenth by a splendid approach. Drake topped his drive at the sixteenth, and his second was a trifle wide, but he laid his third dead only two inches short of the hole from the edge of the green. Duncan, however, from a fine drive, played a masterly second which gave him a 3, and the match was square. Duncan played the better mashie shot' at the seventeenth, but Drake's approach putt stymied him, so close to the hole that he could only play safe, and the hole was halved in 4's. Drake's second put him in a better position on the eighteenth green, but Duncan laid his third eighteen inches away, while Drake's long putt overran, and he missed the return, Duncan winning 1 up. Whyte was 2 up at the turn. He was stymied twice, but got down. Black was stymied once, but failed to negotiate it. Whyte was out in 37 and back in 35. Aplin had the better of his game with Page all through. He narrowly escaped paying a penalty at the fifteenth, where his tee shot scraped the pin and stopped a foot past. He was out in 38 and back in 37.

M. Blundell was 2 up on H. McLean going to the thirteenth, but hooked his drive into the rough on the eighteenth fairway and put his second into the bunker under the trees. A long putt, however, gave him a half in s's. Some good golf was seen in the match between Petley and J. Duncan. Petley did a 73, out in 37 and back in 36. Duncan nearly holed his second at the first, which he took in 3, going out in 37. Petley was 1 up at the turn, and came back in 454443345, taking three putts on the last green.