PROVINCIAL GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 102, 3 May 1933, Page 11

PROVINCIAL GOLF

THE SEMI-FINALS

MISS BARNS-GRAHAM BRILLIANT

The semi-finals of the Wellington Ladies' Provincial Golf Championship were decided in steady rain at Heretauuga this morning. This afternoon Miss Barns-Graham (Gisborne) meets Miss Fleming (Christchurch) in tho final. The golf, considering the conditions, was good. Following avo the results: — Miss Barns-Graham beat Miss Hanson, 8 and 7; Miss V. Fleming beat Miss Rutherford at tho nineteenth. NOTES ON PLAY. Miss Fleming is a collected, steady golfer whose play is always rather betfor than it looks because it is so effortless. Her long gamo was almost invariably straight and her approach chips were particularly deadly, seldom more thaii three feet from the pin and never more than five. Miss Rutherford is a more spectacular player, hitting a tremendous drivc> and playing most of her seconds with an iron, with which she gets tremendous length. A hook troubled her long game today, and was responsible for most of her lost holes. She was very good round the greens. At the turn, Miss Fleming was 1 up after a hole-and-holo run out in which she was 42 and Miss Rutherfoid 44. Miss Rutherford took the tenth witha long putt in 3, squaring the game, and takincj the eleventh in 5, was 1 up. Miss "Fleming was short of the twelfth in 3, and Miss Rutherford was down the bank.. Miss Fleming, approaching the better, won the hole in 5, squaring tho game. Miss Rutherford hooked her second into the trees at the thirteenth, and plcyed two shots amongst them, getting out well short of the green, which she reached in 6, and conceded the hole, making Miss Fleming 1 upThe fourteenth was halved in 3. Miss Rutherford duffed her mashio shot at the fifteenth, and was down tho bank. She played two shots without much improving her position,* finally conceding tho hole, making Miss Fleming 2»up. ' , Miss Fleming hit practically her only poor • drivo at the sixteenth, though clearing the rough across the week. Her next,, a beautiful spoon shot, shaved the pin and ran over the bank into the bunker at the back of the green. A trifle strong getting- out, she took 6, Miss Rutherford .taking a lließ 4 and standing only-1 dovn._ The seventeenth was halved in 5. Miss Rutherford's third was well on tho eighteenth green, but Miss lleming pushed out her mashie from the wet rough and landed in tho bunker, out of which she was wide and too strong with her fourth, Miss Rutherford taking the hole in 5 and squaring the match. They went on to the nineteenth, which both reached'nicely in 2, Miss Rutherford on tho back of the green and Miss Fleming about tho same distance away, but pin high. Miss Rutherford overran her approach putt, while Miss Fleming's lay on the lip of the hole, slightly closing it to Miss Rutherford, Who missed her putt, the match ending in Miss Fleming's favour. The cards read: — Miss Fleming: Out, 464544564—42; in, 465634656—45. Miss Rutherford: Out, 504446664— 44; in, 35683645 j—4s. . * Miss Barns-Graham played very fine 20lf, winning the • first threo , holes from Miss Hanson, and going out in 41, to stand 5 up .'it th« turn. She did the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth m consecutive- 4's, nnfl the match finished 8 and 7. Miss Hanson, who has not struck'hrr bost fovm this tourney, evidently suffered tho strain of such a high-class competitor.