KIRK-WINDEYER GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 7

KIRK-WINDEYER GOLF

HONOURS EVEN IN SINGLES

FOUESOMES DECIDE

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrißht. SYDNEY, 16th June. Winning two of the four' singles matches, New South "Wales won the Kirk-Windeyer Golf Cup from New Zealand to-day. The singles resulted:— Ferrier beat Silk, 2 up. Bettington beat Wagg, 5 up. Hornabrook beat Thompson, 5 up. Black beat Withy combe, 4 up. v Having, won both the foursomes the previous day, New South Wales lifted the cup by four, matches to two. Although selected to play to-day, Brinsden asked to be dropped, so Black played in his place. The match of the day was between Silk, the New Zealand stylist, and Ferrier, the New South Wales: hard-hitting champion. Despite a strong cold westerly wind, a large gallery followed the game. •

Silk won tt^e first two holes, and the third was halved. Ferrier. got one back at the fourth, and the next two were halved. At the sixth Ferrier holed oat from a bunker. The match . was squared at the seventh, where Silk drove into the bushes, and then out of bounds. The eighth was halved. Silk missed a short putt at the, ninth, to be 1 down. The next three were halved in par figures. Silk squared'the game at the thirteenth, whichV he took-in 5 to 6. Putting lapses at the sixteenth and the eighteenth greens by Silk made him 2 down at .lunch, the fourteenth,. fifteenth, and. seventeenth being halved. A RARE STRUGGLE. In the afternoon a rare struggle was witnessed. Three putts by Silk gave Ferrier the: nineteenth.. The twentieth was halved, and the twenty-first was won by Silk in 3 to 4. Ferrier took threeputts at the next, a half resulting. Similarly Silk had three putts at'the twenty-third, .but gained,a' half. Silk was stymied'at the next and holed Ms opponent's ball. . '

Ferrier was then 3 up.. At the twenty-fifth t the New Zealander topped his brassie shot, but, sinking a long putt, halved the hole. 'The next two were halved in par fours. An'.exeellent approach at the: twenty-eighth' reduced Silk's leeway to 2.'After, two more halves in. par fours, Silk chipped back dead at the thirty-first, to win i:\ 5. to 6.. Silk 1 down. Silk's putting again let him down when Eerrier won the , thirty-second. A great second .and well-judged approach putt gave the New; Zealander a win at the next. Silk 1 down. The thirty-fourth went to Ferrier, after Silk had-visited a bunker. The. penultimate.hole was halved in:4's "and the last :ir. siT Honours were even as regards lengths' of drives. Silk played his approaches excellently, but/ his putting was faulty. DEFEAT OF RANA WACKJ.

Bettington played sterling golf against. Wagg during : the morning round, and finished: seven up at lunch. His long game was excellent, and 'id turned, four up with an approximate stroke round of 36. Wagg struck trouble at the bunkers going out, and lost the fourth, ..fifth, .seventh, eighth .and. ninth on the inward line.' Wagg explored a bunker at practically everjr: hole. ■ The New, Zealander; did slightly better, in the afternoon, but Bettington: had ihe match wpaatihe thirteenth}'being-six up and five. He eventually 'finished five up! The "winner lit 'some"''tremendous drives.'1" ";"■.':' "J'?;v.<r.<,.>:;t:., ; ; • .-■- ■■■ .- ■"; WITHYCOMBE PUTTS BADLT. Withycombe 's' poof showing" in. the morning' round against Black was due solely to his bad putting. Taking, three putts on the first, fourth, and fifth, he was then two down. He won the seventh and the eighth to square the match with' two and four respectively, but again took three putts at the ninth to turn .one down. .Black won the first three hqles on the homeward journeywith two birdie threes and a par four,and went further ahead when he won the thirteenth. Withycombe, however, won. the next three,.only to lose the seventeenth, being three down, at the interval..- Black played ;a steady game in the afternoon. ; Withycombe's long game was splendid, but again Ms; patting was weak, "and tKe New Zealander eventually ran out a winner by_ four up.-' v .: ■ ■ .- .:' •■' ■ '■'■■•■ ;'■ -■■'-■ ' HOENABEOOK BEHiIANT. Thompson, who' is usually a model of steadiness, started disastrously against Hornabrook, losing the; first four • holes through wild shots.. Hornabrook could easily have been six up at the.turn, as he missed several short putts The New Zealander went out in 36/ leading, by four up. . .: ■■.'-~.'.-v;-"-: "'.'■■ ■:'-•':■.'. Thompson improved .coming iome winning the,, twelfth ani the fourteenth.. Hornabrook won the seventeenth.with a par three, but lost the eighteenth; He should have been, more1 than' two up at lunch. In the afternopttjHpfnabrook continued. his great form, and increased his margins 5 up to register the best win for the holders of the.cupl