WOMEN'S GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1937, Page 11

WOMEN'S GOLF

PLAY AT HERETAUNGA

PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Given colour by the presence of

the Australian team, the Wellington women's provincial golf championships opened at the Heretaunga course this morning. A fair breeze was the sole tnarring feature, for the course was in very good order and the greens hard and true. Some of the greens, in fact, were inclined to be a little too hard, particularly for the Australians, who found that their habit of playing high stop shots was inclined to be disastrous, with the ball kicking through.

The outstanding feature of the morning's qualifying round was a 77 by Miss Cheyney, scored after a poorish outward run of 41. She started with a. 6 at the par 4 first hole, and lost another. stroke to par at the third; where she took a 4, She won one back at the fifth with a well-played 2, but again at the eighth and ; ninth she dropped strokes with a 6 and 4 respectively. Coming in, she dropped a stroke at the short fourteenth, picked it upj with a good 3 at the sixteenth, and with another very good 3 at the seventeenth finished with a par 5, for an inward run of 36.

Another of the Australians started in record-breaking style. She was Miss E. M. Hutton, who completed the first nine in 34, including 27's at the third and ninth, where her tee shots landed close to the pin each time. Her card for the first nine was as follows: — 452434552. Coming home the tale was different. She had a disastrous 7 at the twelfth after escaping from a diffi* cult lie in a bunker, and taking three putts, and on the last four she finished badly with 4, 5, 6, 6 for an inward run of 44 against the par of 37. The Tolhurst sisters, Mrs. Sloan Morpeth and Miss Shirley Tolhurst, both played pretty well, 1 although they could not quite settle to their best form. Miss Tolhurst took 40 each way, including two 6's in the first nine, and another on the run home. Neither of the two hit a particularly long ball; instead they chose the middle of the fairway andj were accurate with all clubs. ■ '

An emphasis on accuracy, if any emphasis were needed, was given by Mrs. Guy Williams, who partnered Miss Hutton. Mrs. Williams after three-put-ting a • good deal on the first nine for an outward run of 48, produced better form coming home and kept them straight down the funnel for an triward card of 40. The most'. successful of the prominent New Zealand competitors was Miss V. Fleming, who scored an 81, The round could have been at least one stroke less—probably more—for she missed an easy two-foot putt, but the rest of the time Miss Fleming was hitting them well though she could not reproduce her practice form of I the last two days, when she took 77 and 76. The former New Zealand titleholder, Miss White-Parsons, was not in the best of form, nor could Miss Kernot, the present Australian champion, master her drives .sufficiently to be accurate with it;' Miss Kernot is slight and small—not much over five feet— but she punches the ball crisply, and with a greater knowledge of the conditions, undoubtedly will be dangerous. Miss Hornabrook, of Wairarapa, was one of the "notable players to crash. She had two disastrous holes, taking nine at one and eight at another. The following are the scores:— FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND. Miss Cheyney (Australia), 77; Miss E. M. Hutton (Australia), 78; Miss S. Tolhurst (Australia),- 80; Miss V. Fleming, 81; Mrs. S. Morpeth (Australia), 81; .Mrs. "A. D. Latham, 81; Miss Buchanan, 82; Miss Wray (Australia), 83; Miss White-Parsons, 84; Mrs. Slater, 84; Miss Nutt, 84; Miss Wheeler, 85; Miss Kernot (Australia), 85; Mrs. Russell, 86; Mrs. McKiUop, 87; Mrs. A. Martin, 87; Mrs, Guy Williams, 88; Mrs. Welton-Hogg, 88; Mrs. Lewis, 88; Mrs. Spiers, 88; Miss Petrie, 89; Miss Griffen, 89; Mrs. Godby, 90; Miss S. Collins, 90; Mrs. H. Pearce, 90; Mrs. Foreman, 91; Mrs. Weston, 91; Mrs. Farr, 91; Miss G. Brodie, 91; Mrs. Mcßae, 91; Mrs. Gregory, 92; Miss Hornabrook-, 93; Mrs. Turnbull, 93; .Mrs. Ashe, 94; Miss Hannan, 94; Mrs; Blackley, 94; Mrs. Hunt, 94; Mrs. Winstone, 102; Mrs. J. Williams, 82; Mrs. Whatley, 84; Mrs. D. Stout, 86; Mrs. Brodie, .87; Mrs. Treadwell. 88; Miss Young, 91; Mrs. Menzies, 92; Mrs. Wiren, 93; . Mrs. Whyte, 96; Mrs. Park, 96; Mrs. Morris, 96; Mrs. Gault, 96; Miss Trolove; 97; Mrs. Mackenzie, 97;' Mrs, M. Macfarlane, 99; Mrs. Roe, 101; Mrs. Denton, 104; Miss iNicolson, - 105; ■ Mrs. L. Hunter, 109; Mrs. Schnieder, 93; Mrs. Tripe, 94; Mrs. Kingsland, 94; Mrs, Seddon, 97. Early scores in the second qualifying round were as follows:—Miss Kernot, 79; Miss Buchanan, 81; Mrs. Morpeth, 82; Mrs. Guy Williams, 82; Miss Wray, 85; Miss Tolhurst, 88; Mrs. Weston, 92; Miss Lucas, 100; Miss Hornabrook, 103.