WOMEN'S GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 135, 4 December 1935, Page 13

WOMEN'S GOLF

WELLINGTOW'icLUB CHAM-

PIONSHIP

MRS. WILLIAMS: WINS

In spite of poor approaching and erratic putting, Mrs. Guy Williams who was very much off her game, dofeated Miss Maud Wheeler in the final of the Wellington Golf Club's women's championship contest, played at Heretaunga today, at the nineteenth. T|m cards were not good. Mrs. Williams took 46 out and for the teu holes on the return journey she took 49. Miss Wheeler took 43> and 53.

Mrs. Williams won the first hole in 5 to 6, but she had a poor tee-shot at the next, and putted too strongly, her opponent taking the hole 5 to-6. Miss Wheeler took 3 to Mrs. Williams's 4 at the short third, but Mrs. Williams got one back with a bogey 4 at the fourth. At the next Mrs. Williams pulled hers out into the bunker, while her opponent lay through the green, but made a splendid recovery, taking the'hole from Mrs. Williams 5 to 4: Mrs. Williams, hit her opponent's ball into the hole at the sixth, and "she lost the seventh also through striking the bunker just short of the green. Miis Wheeler was in the. rough with her second at the long eighth, but was well out. Unfortunately, she pushed out her next into a bad lie in the rough to the left of the green. Mrs. "Williams, however, failed to take advantage of her opponent's mistakes, taking 7 to Miss Wheeler's 6. . She got one back at the ninth, however, with a bogey 3 to 4, and Miss Wheeler turned 3 up. - .

Mrs. Williams had a beautiful iron at the tenth, which lay just througti the green, and. her opponent took two to get out of the. bunker to the.left, and Mrs. Williams took the hole 5 to 6. The next two were halved in 6's, and the thirteenth was even woise, Miss Wheeler taking 7 to Mrs. Williams's 6. They halved the fourteenth in 4's. Mrs. Williams's chip was far' too strong, and had it riot struck the pin it would have landed; through the green. At the next. Miss Wheeler failed to get up the bank, and Mrs. Williams, whose ball" lay a few feet only from the pin, took the hole in 3" to 4 to square the match. They halved the sixteenth in s's, but Mrs. Williams lost the seventeenth, where Miss Wheeler's second was on the green. Miss Wheeler struck the trees with, her tee-shot at the eighteenth, and had to play but on.to the fairway at right angles, and Mrs. Williams won the hole 5 "to 6 to square the match again. At.' the' nineteenth Mrs. Wheeler sliced her tee-shot into the rough, and her third lay.short of the green, and Mrs. Williams, who was just short, of the green for 2, took the hole in 4 to 6 to win the match',, The winner failed repeatedly on the. greens,! and her approach shots were unreli-' able. Miss Wheeler put up a very solid fight against her opponent. , . ' .

Miss Joyce Nathan played good golf to beat Mrs. B. Todd, 6 and 5, in the final of the junior championship, standing 4 up at the turn.. . ' ..'

In the final of the Ward Cup, Mrs. Turnbull beat Miss- Ward, 5 and 4.

In the third round yesterday, Mrs. W. Turnbull beat Mrs. Warwick Blundell, Mrs. Guy Williams beat Miss Bell, Miss M. Wheeler, beat Mrs. Stott, 'and Miss;: Ward beat -Mrs.c Spiers .■;■■ In the semi-finals. Mrs. Williams beat Mrs. Turnbull and Miss Wheeler beat Miss Ward. i-. • ■'..-.-