PROFESSIONAL GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 4

PROFESSIONAL GOLF

ROEWAMPTON TOURNEY

LONDON, April 7,

In the Roehampton professional golf tournament semi-finals, Lacey boat Perry, Hand 2, and AVhitepmbc beat Kenyon, 4 and 2. In the final, Whitcombe beat Laccy, 7 and' 5.

Roehampton, the first ■ important professional golf tournament of tho season, finished as it began with remarkable figures. Whitcoinbe took the load oarly in the final, and turned for homo 3 up with a score of 37 to -10. He made certain of- tho match by winning the next four in 2, 3, 3, 3- to Lacey'a .4, 4, 4, 4. ' Whitcombe won by wonderful pitching and putting. Lacey missed a foot putt at a critical point. Neither Ms

nor Perry's play, compared .with their games on Pridny. ' '

The earlier rounds provided great thrills. Tho biggest surprise was the defeat of King, hero of tho qualifying stages. In the morning he had an astonishing victory. He was 2 down at the eighth, and then made a marvellous finish, his figures for the lust nine holes being 2, 3, v, 4, 2, 5, 4, v, o, which was six. under, bogey, : but in the second round ho crashed badly. .He was 4 down at tho turn, going, out in 4U ami never again found touch.1

Lacey had a great day. He defeated Mitchell in the morning and Cotton in Iho afternoon after a desperate affair ending at tho -nineteenth. Laccy is one of the new school and a. long hitter. lie recorded a number of colossal drives with a steel-shafted driver, the head of which is mado of a special kind of metal. . One drive was 275 yards against a stiff wind.