HUTT WINTER TOURNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 12

HUTT WINTER TOURNEY

WARD CHAMPION

Following the defeat of that steady match player and former New Zealand amateur champion H. A. Black yesterday morning in the Hutt golf tourney, G. B. Ward upset some calculations in the afternoon by winning the final in the Hutt Winter Cup contest against K. Jeffcry, who had put out J. L. Black> perhaps the most consistent match player in the Wellington district, in the earlier stages. Ward showed a pronounced fighting spirit, and, though troubled with a slice on the fairways, made some fine recoveries against Jeifery, Jeffery's game was characterised by fine seconds to the green, whether with iron or wood. Ward had somewhat the advantage in length. Troubles on the green or in the bunkers saw tho first hole halved in 6's. Jeffery won the second in 4, but put his' iron tee shot into the trees at the third, hit a tree with his second, and lost the hole to Ward, who was down in 3. Jeffery took the lead again at the fourth, where Ward was bunkered. Jeffery was on in 2 and down in 4. Ward missed a sevenfooter for a 3at the fifth, which was halved in 4's. The sixth, where Jeffery topped a wooden second, and Ward sliced widely with his second, was halved in s's. The, seventh was halved in 4's, and the eighth, where Ward missed a four-footer for a win, in s's. Jeffery hooked from the ninth tee over on to the eighth fairway, while Ward, a left-hander, sliced his- second outside the flanking bunkers, but both were on in 3, Jeffery's ball not tour feet from the cup. Jeffery's putt hit the hole ..and ran over, a half in s's resulting. Jeffery was out in 41 to Ward's 42.

Ward was robbed of a win at the tenth, where he was'stymied, when a couplo o£ feet from the hole, and a half in s's was recorded, -the sixth half in succession. Jeffery's tee shot at the eleventh was only just on the green, while Ward's lay pin high to the right, and Ward squared the game here with a3to a4. Jeffery was on the twelfth greeu iv 2, and it looked like his hole, as Ward's second was across the green in long grass, but Ward chipped up well, and sank a tenfooter for a half in 4. Ward sliced his second badly at the thirteenth, while Jeffery was just short of the green, but both were on in 3, and a half in s's followed.

Ward sliced from the tee into the rough at_ the next, and -only just reached the fairway with his second, but played a fine third to within 12 feet of the pin. Jeffery found the bunker with his second, was short out, and ran past the hole with his fourth. Ward ran down the long putt for a win in 4 to 5, and took the lead.

At this critical stage Jeffery pushed his drive out into the gorse, and put his second into the rough only a few yards further on. The ball lay in long grass, but he took his wood to the third shot, and only gained some fifty yards. His fourth found the sixteenth fairway. His fifth, over-ran the hole. Ward was nicely on.in 3, and all but sank a, thirty-footer for a 4, standing 2 up. Jeffery got one back at the sixteenth, where Ward missed the longer of reasonable putts for a ,3, and squared the game at the seventeenth, where he was on the green in 2, while Ward was bunkered. Ward's- superior length throughout was demonstrated at the eighteenth, where his drive was well ahead of Jeffery's, and his second was on the back of the green, while' Jeffery's was short. Jeffery's chip was too strong, running into the rough at the back of the green, and he overran the hole getting out. Ward was down in a neat 4, and holds the Winter Cup-for the year.