EXHIBITION MATCH

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 100, 1 May 1939, Page 16

EXHIBITION MATCH

PLAY AT MIRAMAR

YON NIDA BEATS SHAW

Shaw was hot', at ""his best in the exhibition .golf match,at .Miramar on

Saturday afternoon, and yon Nida beat him 4 and 3. A gallery of some 300 golfers followed the match. Shaw seemed to lack punch in his. long game, was seldom on the line with his chips, and missed a number of comparatively short putts. Had it not been,that he sank several long ones, his margin of defeat would have been larger. His swing from the tee was as delightful as ever, but somehow he was just not clicking round the greens. Yon Nida, in better weather, with faster fairways and greens, did not play as good a game by three strokes as in the fourball last week, though then it was pouring. Teeing up was allowed on Saturday, perhaps to save the fairways, but these were in quite good enough condition to have allowed the players to play off the turf. One of the amazing things about yon Nida's short game was his chips to the pin. They seemed never to deviate six inches from the line. He outdrove Shaw, and there was more sting in his irons. Yon Nida's second at the first was in the rough to the right, but he was down in 4 to 5. The second was nicely halved in 4's. At the third yon Nida sliced into the bunker with his second, while Shaw's second was a little short. The hole was halved in s's, Shaw's tee shot was a good distance short of the green at the fourth.' Yon Nida overran with his approach putt. Here Shaw nearly sank a thirty-footer, but the ball just scraped the lip, yon Nida taking the hole in 4. TWO LONG DRIVES. Yon Nida was on the 295-yard fifth green from the tee, and down m 3. Shaw hooked his drive here into the rough, narrowly missing the ditch, and took 5. Shaw won the short hole, where vonjtfida was bunkered, in 3. Driving with the wind, yon Nida drove over 300 yards at. the seventh, but Shaw was also on in 2, and the hole was halved in 4's. Both pushed out their drives at the eighth a bit but yon Nida's chip was inside Shaw s, and he took the hole in 4 to 5 making him 3 up. When Shaw pushed out his second at the ninth into the bunker, and yon Nida's perfect second let him get down in 4 to 5, yon Nida was 4 up, having gone out in 36 to Shaw s 41. Turning 4 down, Shaw then pulled back a couple of holes, sinking a tenfooter at the tenth, and a thirty-five-footer at the eleventh, reducing his deficit to 2 down. Yon Nida pushed out his tee shot at the twelfth some forty yards off line, but recovered well,, and Shaw, missing a six-footer for his 3, was 3 down again. Yon Nida had an unpleasant hole at the thirteenth, where he hooked on to the eighth fairway, found the grass on the far side of the bunker with his next smote valiantly into the sand behind his ball, emerging eighteen feet short of the m did a bit of gardening afterwards, in the bunker, and quite naturally, failed to sink his long putt, Shaw, who was on Mith* vSI Nfda h°blck n t4o 2 up again and still six holes to go, Shaw seemed to retain a chance of ;altering.^e fortunes of the game, but at the fourteenth his second shot for which he took a spoon, was sliced into the bunker. Yon 'Nida, taking aNo 2 iron for very much the same second shot, was straight on the pin, and thr™Q the back of the green. There he found a good lie, pitched beautifully over the bank to a handy position, and took the hole in 4 to 6. A better approach by yon Nida at the fifteenth, and a missed putt by Shaw, saw the end of the game there in a win for the Australian by 4 and 3. Finishing out the round, Shaw sank a fifteen-footer for a 2 at the seventeenth, but the last hole went to yon Nida in 4. Yon Nida s round was 74. and Shaw's an approxiR. C. Butters, the Miramar professional, was referee.