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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 18

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E.G. WHITCOMBE CHAMPION

The final of the Wellington Golf Club's championship was won yesterday by P. G7Whitcon.be, who defeated J. D. G. Duncan, lup over 36 holes.' Whitcombe is only eighteen years* of age, and the fine golf he has played throughout the championship is a further instance of the success of young golfers over more seasoned players, which ia one of the most hopeful signs of New Zealand golf today. Whitcombe played well in the morning, and was 3 up going to the fourteenth. He hit a beautiful No. i iron, which, however, ran through the green past the bunker into the rough. Duncan was short with his tee shot, but ran his ball up to within four feet of the pin. Whitcombe's niblick shot.landed nicely on the green, trickled on, and went in for a 2, making him 4 up. The fifteenth and sixteenth were halved. Whitcombe was on the back of the seventeenth green in 2 and took the hole in 3. He went in to lunch 5 up, having taken 39' out and 36 back. vAt the twelfth in the afternoon Whitcombe was 4 up. Whitcombe pushed out his drive at the thirteenth, but was on tho edge of the green in 2. Duncan, with two nice shots, was '.ell on the greenj and got, his 4, reducing his leeway to 3 down. Winning the fourteenth, he was! 2 down. The pin was right at the back of the fiftteenth green, and Duncan's tee shot, a trifle strong, ran up the bank and pitched on the top. Whitcombe's fine maßhie shot lay eight feet past the pin, but he was short with his putt, and missed the next. Duncan's approach from the top of the bank laid him practically dead, and he went on only 1 down. Duncan pushed out his tee shot towards the creek at the sixteenth, while ' Whitcombe was down the middle. Duncan played a, nice shot to within eight feet "of the pin, but Whitcombe chipped up to within three feet, and holed his putt, Duncan missing his. Duncan won the seventeenth, leaving Whitcombe dormie 1. Whitcombe's second found the rough at the eighteenth, but lay well, and a fine approach enabled him to halve 'in 4, winning 1. up. In the final of the intermediate championship, V7A. Ward beat T. W. Williams, 2 up. The final of the junior championship was won by J. H. Miles, who beat W. E. Fussell, 5 and 4. A mixed foursome bogey handicap for Lady Bell's bowl and the Challenger Cup was played at Heretaunga on Saturday, and was won by Mrs. W. E. C. Gregory and G. T. Dawson with a score of 1 down. The following are the best cards handed in:-—Mrs. W. E. C. Gregory and G. T. Dawson, 1 down; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. D. Bell, 3 down; Miss* M. Whyte and D. O. Whyte, 5 down; Miss Dyer and W. E. C. Gregory, 5 down; Miss C. Young and J. D.G. Duncan, 5 down.