WOMEN’S GOLF

Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 8

WOMEN’S GOLF

AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST ROUND OF MATCH PLAY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, September 7. - The first round of match play in the Australian Associates’ Championship at the Royal Sydney links was played in perfect weather to-day, and provided thrilling golf. The title-holder, Miss Oliver Kay, Won at the nineteenth, beating Miss M'Keuzie, of Woodcnd, Victoria. Other results were ■ Miss Gaisford defeated Miss M. M‘Leod (Melbourne) 2 and 1. Miss Joan Hammond beat Mrs Clements 2 and 1. Mrs Tregloan beat Miss Millear (Victoria) 3 and 2. Miss M'Leish beat Miss Buckle 6 and 5. Miss Lasccllcs (Melbourne) boat Mrs T. M'Kay 2 up. Mrs Russell (Melbourne) beat Miss L. Wray 3 and 2. Mrs Clive Robinson beat Miss Ebert at the twenty-first. (Where no State is mentioned in the results, the players belong to New South Wales.) The draw for the quarter-finals tomorrow is as follows :—Miss Hammond v. Miss Gaisford; Mrs Russell v. Mrs Tregloan; Miss M'Leish v. Mrs Robinson; Miss Lascelles v. Miss Kay. Miss Gaisford was two up at the conclusion of the first nine holes, and was dormie two at the sixteenth. The New Zealander pulled her tee shot to the side of the green at the short seventeenth, and Miss _ M'Leod went through. After playing two more strokes she gave the match to Miss Gaisford. The much admired country player, Miss M'Keuzie, was at her best against Miss Kay. The former began with birdie three and turned for home two up. The New Zealander reduced her opponent’s lead to one at the fourteenth, and three putts cost Miss M'Keuzie the fifteenth. Miss Ivay won the next, but the Victorian squared the match at the seventeenth, where Miss Kay failed to sink a 2ft putt, which stopped on the edge of the tin. The eighteenth was haired in bogey fours, Miss Kay winning the nineteenth with four to her opponent’s five. ■