NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 13

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Telegraph) • (Special to the "Eveninu Post.") AUCKLAND, September 28. Such a complete reversal of form as was given by . the contestants in the second half of the women's golf final this after-, !. noon' it would be difficult to imagine. Whereas Miss Gaisford suddenly struck form, her opponent played but two holes without mistake, and once she had slipped into, errors at the opening few holes she ..never recovered. Hole after hole was taken by Miss Gaisi'onl in golf which was practically flawless, while hole after hole the title-holder's errors continued. .Still tho gallery were astounded that Miss Gaisford should retrieve a deficit of & down in five holes and become as many up herself after eleven holes had been played. Miss Kay's troubles commenced at the first hole, when; sin; was hunkered with her second, but her loss here to Miss Gaisford's sound 4 did not seriously affect her lead. At the 'next, however, where the fairway is divided by a road which 111 ---• seconds have to carry, .she socketed tin1 vital shot, and again Miss Gaisford got » Bound -1. The gallery gasped with surprise when the player who had displayed such outstanding brilliance practically, throughout tho tournament socketed ' another second at the third hole and dribbled the next along the ground. It was the beginning of the cud. Miss Kay appeared to have got a respite when she apparently stymied her opponent with her first putt at the short third hole, but it was not to be. The umpire measured the difference between tho two balls, and it was not the requisite six inches. Miss Kay had to lift, aud the putts of about a foot were conceded. An awkward putt was left Miss Gaisford on the next green, and when she holed it Miss Kay missed a smaller one and the'game was square. At the next Miss Gaisford, whoso putting had been unerring,, got down an eight-footer for a half. Miss Kay showed more confidence with a good approach at tho short seventh., and got the half in the next two holes. She was outplayed on the green. So it went1 on, and at tlie eleventh Miss Kay was- 4 down and nothing but a mirae'e could save* her. lint it was not to bi\ for Miss Gaisford, though sit a disadvantage through the fairways at the

next two holes, maintained her fine approaching and putting at the next two holes, halving them. She then erred with her tee shot at the short fourteenth, but Miss Kay could not t.-ike advantage of the opening. She replied with a wretched shot much short of the green, and it was only the fact that Miss Gaisford was weak with her approach and was trapped in the bunker that enabled Miss Kay to take the hole, her only one. Her pitch to the next was better than her opponent's, but it was Miss Gaisford who chipped in and got down in one putt, and a remarkable game was over.

The quality of the winner's golf is evidenced by the fact that she was out in 30 to bogey 37, against her morning effort of 41, while she was one under tho scratch figures coming home. Except for her lapse at the fourteenth, it was the only occasion during tho tournament that she had produced her true form, and it was a truly brilliant effort. Miss Kay, game little fighter that she is, could not do anything right. She pulled her approaches in a most extraordinary manner, and it is perhaps no wonder that she seldom shaped as if she were going to hole a putt.