GOLF SENSATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 125, 28 May 1936, Page 9

GOLF SENSATIONS

SEVERAL CLOSE CALLS

FERRIER WINS AT 19TH

THE BRITISH AMATEUR

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graph—Copyright. (Received May 28, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, May 27.

The first sensation of the day in the British amateur championship was Tolley's lapse against the. Welshman Roberts. Tolley went out with a majestic 36 and there was then' a landslide in Roberts's favour. Tolley went all to pieces. Roberts,, by taking three putts at the seventeenth, permitted Tolley to square the match. Tolley missed a 3ft putt at the eighteenth but at the nineteenth sank a seven-yarder for the match. . *

A great crowd accompanied Ferrier (Australia) against Braddon, a member of the advertising staff of a London evening newspaper who was essaying his first championship. He plays a beautiful ball and is very accurate in his approach play. Both went out in 38 and turned aIL square. Ferrier lost the next three holes, being off the line with his drives, but won the next two through Braddon taking three putts at each green. Ferrier holed a fouryarder at the fifteenth and a: threeyarder at the sixteenth, getting halves, and downed a f our-yarder at the seventeenth, squaring the match. The eighteenth was halved when Ferrier failed to sink a three-yarder. "DESPERATE STRUGGLE." j Both had magnificent drives at the nineteenth and both had superb seconds to within four yards from the pin. Ferrier had the first putt and laid the ball just on the cage of the hole. Braddon seemed nervous and. took three putts of short distances, so that Ferrier won. He was visibly showing, signs of strain. He Said: "It was a desperate struggle, and I was * lucky to get through." The Scottish champion Hamilton went down to the former Oxford champion Morrice. The English champion, Bentley, had a very tough fight to beat the Irishman Gill. FOURTH ROUND SURPRISES. The defeat of Jack McLean in the fourth round was most surprising. Sweeny, a London-American, was 3 up at the eleventh, and was then dormy 2. McLean won the last two and halved the nineteenth, but Sweeny won, the twentieth.

Dr. Tweddel's defeat was also surprising as he has just been chosen as captain of the British Walker Cup team against America. Thomson played brilliantly and was five under 4's for the sixteen holes.

Ferrier gave a magnificent display against Howell, who has eight times been the Welsh champion. The Australian simply overwhelmed the Welshman,/ driving with enormous length and with his second shots covering the pin. Ferrier was out in 34, his figures being 434444434, and turned. sup He did the next four holes in 4344. Howell made some slips, occasionally taking three putts, but was devastated by his opponent's finer golf. The golfing writer of "The .Times" says that Ferrier is obviously a most effective, though not- a pretty, golfer Nevertheless, handsome is as handsome does. He playeH unbeatable golf. WRETCHED CONDITIONS. . A howling icy wind from the sea made conditions at St. Andrews utterly wretched If or today's play, and every hole played differently. Golfers were wrapped up as if it wac mid-winter. It was St. Andrews in its sternest mood and the conditions obviously meant that many unaccustomed to such severity would be blown out of the championship. Results of the day's play are:— THIRD ROUND. Graham Smith beat Bryant, 2 upCameron beat Yardley, 5 and 4; Lyons beat Collins, 1 up; McCallum beat White, 4 and 3; Murray beat Mitchell. 1 up; Ewing beat Shepherd, 4 and 3Wethered beat Bloomer, 4 and 3; Waterson beat Morrison, 2 and 1Chambers beat Illingworth, 3 and 1; Lindsay beat Stables, 1 up; Budd beat Oppenheimer, 4 and 3; Martin beat Marshall Moffatt, 6 and 4; Patrick beat Brown, 1 up; Middleton beat Erskine, 3 and 2; Arana beat Tipping, 3 and 2; Whitaker beat Vlandy, 2 and 1; Scroggie beat Black, 1 up; Gordon beat Simpson Smith, 5 and 4; Jamieson beat Campbell, 3 and 1; McMaster .beat Rusk, 3 and 2; Macpherson beat Buckley by a walk-over; Brown beat Prosser, 6 and 5; Thompson beat Brock, 7 and 5; Mitchell beat Brown, 3 and 2; Brodlie beat McKenzie, 2 and 1; Walker beat MacGregor, 1 up; Ferrier defeated K. Braddon, at nineteenth; Turnbull beat Shaw, 5 and 3; Rutherford beat. Ashworth, 5 and 4; McKay beat Henriques, 2 and 1; Bentley beat Gill 1 up; Peters beat Thirsk, 1 up; Morrice beat Hamilton, 4 and 3; Tolley beat Roberts, 1 up; Kyle beat Davenport, 6 and 5; Armstrong beat Harrison-at the twentieth; Gowland beat Grey, 3 and 2; Aitken beat Delaney, 5 and 4; Penning beat I. W. Griffiths, 5 and 4; Pram beat Sutherland, 5 and 4; Risdon beat Grant, 6 and 5; Rankin beat Guest, 1 up; Haggard beat Anderson, 4 and 2; Holden beat J. A. Griffiths, 4 and 3; Fraser-Lee beat Watson, 4 and 3; Hill beat Bourn, 1 up; Dr. Tweddell beat Stevens, 4 and 2; McLachlan beat Cowley, 4 and 3; Anderson beat the Hon. Michael Scott, 5 and 4; Sweeny beat Lord Hope, 5 and 4; McLean beat Mackintosh, 4 and 3; Crawley beat Craddock, 2 and 1; Storey beat Robertson, 3 and 2; Timmis beat Wood, 6 and 4; McGloin beat Parkinson, 4 and 3; McKinlay beat Torrace, 3 and 2; A. R. McCallum beat Smyth, 3 and 2; Dykes beatf Anderson, 1 up; Lyle beat Hartley, 3 and 1; Williamson beat Harris, 3 and 1; Macdonald beat Fiddian, 1 up;Glegg beat Todd, 1 up; Howell beat McCredie, 1 up. FOURTH ROUND. Ferrier beat H. Howell, 7 and 5; H. G. McCallum beat Lyon, 2 and 1; Ewing beat W. Murray, 3 and 2; Wethered beat Waterson, 2 and 1; Lindsay beat Chambers, 5 and 4; Turnbull beat Rutherford at the nineteenth; Bentley beat McKay, 6 ajid 5; Peters beat Morrice, 5 and 4; Tolley beat Armstrong, 4 and 2; Aitken ibeat Gowland, 4 and 3; Cameron beat Smith at the twentieth; Martin beat Budd, 3 and 1; Middleton beat Patrick, 5 and 4; Arana beat Whitaker, 2 and 1; Scroggie beat Simpson, 3 and 2; Brown beat Macpherson, 2 up; Jamieson beat McMaster, 3 and 2; Thomson beat Mitchell, 3 and 2; Walker beat Brodlie, 4 and 3; Hill beat Dr. Tweddel 4 and 2; Kyle beat Panning,-3 and 1; Risdon beat Pram, 4 and 3; Fraser-Lee beat Holder, 2 and 1; Sweeny beat McLean at the twentieth; Timmis beat Micklem at the nineteenth; McKinlay beat McGloin, 2 and 1; Dykes beat A. R. McCallum, 4 and 3; Lyle beat Williamson, 4 and 3; Macdonald beat Clegg, 6 and 4; Anderson beat McLachlan, 3 and 2; Storey beat Crawley, 1 up; Haggard beat Rankine, 1 vro. ......... . j