BRILLIANT PLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1933, Page 7

BRILLIANT PLAY

LADIES' GOLF TITLE

MISS KAY THE WINNER

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WANGANUI, October .19.

Playing a brilliant game and approach ing the greens with almost uncanny pre eision, Miss 0. Kay maintained her morning lead of 4 up on Miss B. Gaisford at the eighteenth to end the match at tha thirty-third green, 5 up and 3 to play. Miss Gaisford's long game was exceptionally good. She outdrove Miss Kay at several holes, but her iron seconds were frequently misplaced and were several times in trouble.

■ At the first green in the afternoon round a missed putt by Miss Gaisford enabled Miss Kay to halve, but Miss Gaisford won the-next when Miss Kay's .putt stayed on the lip. The twenty-first was: a sensational hole. Both were on the green with their approach seconds, Miss Kay only six inches from the hole. Miss Gaisford's Jong putt halted on. the lip of the hole for fully ten seconds. Miss Kay sportingly waiting for the wind to oblige, and the ball rolled in. . ■ t

The next two were halved, but Misa Kay had a birdie 4 at .the twenty-fourth, and won the twenty-fifth when Miss Gaisford pulled her second and third into tha rough. Miss Gaisford won a hole back at the next when Miss Kay missed a puti;,l but Miss Gaisford was bunkered at th« twenty-seventh. After halving the next. Miss Kay won "Long Tom" in a birdie .4.' Miss Gaisford %yon the short twelfth when Miss Kay's putt went in and out.'

Miss Kay approached to six feet, from the pin at the thirty-first, but missed the putt, the hole being halved, but she sank a 15-footer at the thirty-second for a half, to become dorniy 4. The end came at the thirty-third, ,when Miss Gaisford over-ran a, long putt and missed tha putt back, Miss Kay winning the hole in a perfect 3.