N.Z. GOLF TOURNEY

Evening Star, Issue 21254, 8 November 1932, Page 10

N.Z. GOLF TOURNEY

PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR EVENTS THIS MORNING'S PLAY [Per United Press Association.] HERETAUNGA. November 8. Play in the second round of the amateur and professional championships was continued this morning. .1. A. Clements played well against Shaw. Stymies cost him two holes. Shaw’s round was about 75. Moss was particularly good in chi)) shots and putting. He got a 2 at the 'ninth. MTntosh kept steady, hut came in 3 down. Branch played sound golf throughout against C. C. Clements. He wont round in 73 with 2 at the sixteenth. Douglas was 3 up at the turn and 5 up at the twelfth, but lost two of his lead on Dyke to finish 3 up. Among the amateurs interest was shown in the match between the two youngsters Moore (Titahi) and Silk (Wanganui). Silk was 2 up, at the ninth, lost the tenth in a bad 5, won the eleventh through Moore pulling his iron shot second right across the fairway out of bounds. Silk lost the next two to be square but won three of the remaining holes. Bolb were rather wild at times with their long shots in the wind. Bartleet and Wagg went hole and hole to the ninth, where Bartleet pulled into the rough. Hampered by -a big tree, he played left-handed, witli the back of his putter. Wagg took the hole, 4-5, to stand 1 up. The match was square again at the twelfth. Wagg took the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth in a string, Bartleet taking three putts at the thirteenth, and Wagg getting a 2 at the fourteenth. Bartleet was short up at the others. Bartleet’s weakness throughout the round was being short with Ids iron shots. He did not take advantage of Wagg’s mistakes. Abbott is giving Syme a hard match, putting remarkably well in tricky conditions. Ho holed a beautiful mashie chip shot from 40yds for a 2 at the fifth. Syme kept very steady, and was 1 up at the turn and 2 at the tenth; but lost the three next. He won the fourteenth, stymieing his opponent, whose tee shot for 2 at the fifteenth was over the road. Syme was 1 up. Abott won the sixteenth and the seventeenth was halved. Syme took the last to be 1 up. Dr Ross was going well. He was out in 37 and back in 35. His best hole was the seventeenth, done in 3. Seymour’s chief weakness was on the greens. Only one hole separated Wynne and Goss iit the turn, the advantage being to Goss. Wynne played well coming in. They were square at the sixteenth. Wynne took the next two. A. D. S. Duncan went out in 36 and back in 38. Blank played steadily. He lost the eighteenth with a stymie. • Petley at the seventh was 2 up on Smith, "pin. Smith got a fine 4 with his putt at th 6 eighth. Thereafter it was level going. Details:—

PROFESSIONALS. At the end of the first eighteen holes of the second round of the professional championship the position was:— Shaw 3 up on J. A. Clements. Branch 4 up on C. G. Clements, Moss 3 up on M’lntosh. Douglas 3 up on Dyke. AMATEURS. At the end of the first eighteen holes of the third round of the amateur championship the results wore : Silk 3 up on Moore. Wagg 4 up on Bartleet. Parker 4 up on Hurst. Thomas 1 up on Whyte. Dr Ross 7 up on Seymour. Syme 1 up on Abbott. A. 1). S. Duncan 3 up on Blank. Petlev and Smith, juu., all square. Blundell and Cook all square. Wynne 2 up on Goss. Millard 1 up on H. A. Black. Horton 5 up on Huggins. .1. L. Black 5 up on Wright. Reilly 2 up on J. C. D. Duncan. Fryer 2 up on Mills. Collins 4 up on AT. H. Duncan.