WEEKEND PLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 11

WEEKEND PLAY

WELLINGTON BEAT HUTT

Conditions on Saturday afternoon were pleasant for the interclub golf matches, Wellington v. Hutt, Wellington w.on by 13 games to 8, with 3 games squared, but Hutt was successful in the Crawford Crescent. , - . The following are the results, Wellington players iiist mentioned in each case:— A TEAMS AT HERETAUNGA. S. G. Longuet lost to Raua. Wagg, 1 °A. D. S. Duncan and W. K. Cook, all tqj alß. Parker beat W. G. Fisher, 0 and 5 E. S. Toogood lost to W. G. Home, 1 "j^W.. Ward ..lost to 'H. K. Adamson, " Gr" t!" Dawsonboat S. Hogg, 3 ; and 2. G. A. Mills beat C. N. Armstrong, 2 P. Gi Whitcombe lost to J. Shelly, 4 and 3. ■ ■ ' . " „ „ _ , . E. Page beat LA. H. Symes, 5 and 4. P. Savage beat'L; C. Hemery, 6 and i. L R. Hill beat J. A. Ronalds, 7 and 5. J. C. Peacock" beat A. M. Cousins, 8 Wellington, "Vi games; Hutt, AV2 games. - In the Crawford Crescent, played between the first eight, Wellington.won 3% games and'Hutt AVz games. ■ .- B TEAMS AT HUTT. H. P. F^Blundell lost to H. W. .Cormack, 3 and 1; R. B. Smith lost to J. H. Grace, 5 and Z; E. D. Blundell beat V. Jervis, 2 up; M. Blundell beat ■P. Anderson, 3 and 2;. JR. A. Whyte and A.E. Park, all square; P. G. Webster beat E. Partridge, -5 and 4; AY. A. Kiqly lost to C. Zahara, 2 and 1; P. E, Richardson lost to I A. Macallan, 3 and 2; V. A. Ward and L. Gihnour, all square; P. M. loung beat P. B. Bryden, 2 and 1; G. H. Whiteombe beat J. N. Kauch, 2 and 1; Dr R. Welton-Hogg beat G. A. Burgess,-2 and 1. NOTES ON PLAY. . There were. evidences, of very heavy lain,, and most.of the bunkers held a. lot of water, but the course, though heavy, was free of surface water. .Both Wagg aud Longuet drove well out to the right at the first, and Wagg, discovering he had played his opponent's ball, Louguct dropped another into the rough near Wngg s divot.. His shot found a dry.: bunker,; to the right of the gr.eeii, and, though he played a 'difficult' shot well to the green, he failed to get the long, one down, and Wagg was 1 up, having got a nice 4. Lohguet's half-topped second found the cross-bunker at the second. . Wngg was off the line to the right, and finally took the hole in 5 to '6, standing 2 tip. Wagg played n beautiful chip out of the _ left bunker to the pin to, get a halt in 0 at the next: .The-foiirth was halved in..4's, the fifth in 3's, aud;the sixth in ,s's. Wagg pushed out his drive at the seventh on to the second fairway, failed "to get his ■brassie shot well up, and, striking the top of the cross-bunker, went only some fifty yards. His third was a fine recovery to-the green, but Longuet-was on -in 3 in: a better position,? and won the hole 4'to 5. AVagg's low second at the long eighth fell in deep water in the, crossbunker. Taking a penalty sti'oke.Jie dropped behind the water. He hit his fourth down also,- remaining in the rough near the bunker. His fifth, a long one, was down the bank towards the ninth tee, but his. clever 'chip placed him > well on the green in three pretty, shots, and down in 4, squaring the match. •;.'-■ ... Wagg sliced badly into the creek almost hole-high at the ninth, the ball lying in three feet of water, and he conceded the hole, which Longuot took in a drive, a neat chip, and a- three-foot putt, leaving him lup at the turn. ■.-..' Good- drives and chips saw the tenth halved in perfect 4's. ■'. AVagg's second kicked into, the right bunker at the eleventh, the ball lying dry, but in' a deep rut cut by stormwater in the sand. Longuet was short in 2. Playing a neat two-foot niblick side shot out' to the green, AVagg laid his fourth-three feet from the cup, but. missed the putt for: a half in 5, and was 2 down. , .-.,,,.. AVagg's long second shot at the twelfth splashed into, eight inches, of water in the bunker near the green, but, wading in, he played a fine recovery to the green. Longuet missed a long putt for a win in 4 by a whisker, and the hole was halved in s's. . Longuet's drive at the thirteenth .just missed finding the bunker, in which he had to stand awkwardly to play his second,: a fine iron to within a chip of the green. AVagg hooked his socond in amongst the trees, and the hole was halved in s's. The next was halved,in 3's. Longuet failed to get up the bank from the fifteenth tee, and AVagg took the hole in 3. His long putt .at the sixteenth hit the back of the hole, and stopped just beyond it, a half in 4's resulting. AVagg's tremendous drive at the seventeenth lay on the bank between the bunkers in front of' the green,' he played a beautiful approach, and was down in 4 to Longuet's 5, squaring the match. Longuet's second found the bunker to the right at; the eighteenth, and though he played t a fine niblick shot, the ball.landing just on the top of the bank, and rolling' down to within three feet of the pin,-Wagg, whose fine1 iron second, dead on the pin, lay on the back of-the green, sank a twenty T footer for a 3, and won his match, owing it to fine recovery shots after topped shots, slices,, and hooks. He came back in 37. Longuet was 38 out and 39 back, and played the steadier golf. Page was 3 up. at the turn, and his finished card was 77. ' Dawson was playing very, well.. He got. a 3 at' the second; and was' 3 up at'the turn. ' . • . . Parker did a 15, coming back in 37. He was 3 up at the turn':1..; p i Duncan was dormie 2 when Cook squared a close match. , Peacock was out in 37, and six up at ! the turn. . ■Savage was out in 37 and finished with a 75., He. was 3 up at -.the turn.'.. : Home, was a couple of- holes- to the good at the turn. His finished card was 77. ■■ ;,. ...:• ~' ,; ;' • '