GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 12

GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

MiSS KAY'S DEFEAT- 11 GRUEL 1 BAD LUCK " IHSS GAfSfOtm BSATEN IN TSMHJ ROUND Press Association—By Teicgrsph—Copyrighf W ’t ■ ' May 15. (Receiver M&y 16, at 10 a.m.) ' Miss Kay the misfortune t« meet an who not only drove; consistently Sit putted emphatically * Mfs Holm,, t® ex-Scottish champion* had a' single putt on five consecutive greens. This would be enough .to break the heart of any golfer. Miss Kay had cruel bad luck and was never given a chance. ' , Miss Gaisford has a remarkably sound style and is not afraid to hit hard, . 1 ' ■ ' Mrs Garon, the British international player, had no excuses to offer except that she deserved to be beaten. Sh* tobk six for the last hole. .it SECOND ROUND. Miss Gaisford defeated Miss PeecK 3 and 1. ; Mrs Glarke defeated Mrs Jacobseat, 5 and 3. - Mrs Ooats defeated Miss Morgans, 'one up. Miss Pentony defeated Miss Ilian* Pishwick 3 and 1. . ■ THIRD ROUND. ’i'- Miss Pentony defeated Miss Gaisford at the nineteenth. Miss Grace Amory, 'America's sola competitor, was criticised because sha practised . for an hour before her match with a professional specially brought to the cpurse. ‘ It is expected that the Ladies’ Golf Union. will discuss: the matter with a view; to obtaining » ! decision. • Miss Pentony made a. great recovery in; her match against Miss Gaisford.; She was dormie at the sixteenth, and overran the eighteenth green in two, but chipped back within 6ft of the hole and sank the putt. She then holed a long putt, to win at the nineteenth in four.

MM JACOBSEN'S StHtPfHM WIN MIRAMAR GUIS MEMBERS DELIGHTED tP*K Ukimd Pkim Association.] WELLINGTON, May 15. There was great jubilation among members of the Miramar Ladies’ Golf Club to-day when news came through that Mrs Jacobsen had defeated Miss Molly Gourlay in the first round of the British Women’s Golf Championship,. Mrs Jacobsen’s performance in defeating such a redoubtable player as Miss Gourlay, who was the English ladies’' . champion in 1926 and in 1929, and the French open champion on three occasions, the Belgian open champion twice,and the" Swedish champion in 1932, ; was an outstanding one. As Miss Vir-' ian Upham Mrs Jacobsen learnt her golf as a member of the Miramar Club, and owes much of her success to the sound coaching of A. J. Shaw,the New Zealand professional champion, Sim started. off by winning tho Karori ladies’ championship as a girl of 16. Among her successes ‘ can he remembered the Rotorua open champion-* ship twice and the Napier open championship. She was runner-up at both) the-Miramar open-and the Wellington! provincial championships in 1917. Sh« has a very pretty style with a nice flat swing, wnich enables her to control her hall well .in the wind, x *;