GOLF

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1923, Page 6

GOLF

GREY V. WESTPORT. (Per Press Assn.) WESTPORT, June 24. The Golf match for the Dalgleish Shield, between teams representing Greymouth and Westport Clubs, took place at the latter’s links yesterday, ■ and resulted in a win for the visitors by a margin of 11 points, the gross scores being: Greymouth.369, Westport 680. The details of the play are as follow :— Sime (Grey) 77 beat McKinlay (Westport) 87. Dr, Foote (Westport) 94 beat Sb.allcrass (Greymouth) 96. Meldrum (Greymouth) 92 beat Wilson (Westport) 99. Brockett (Westport) 100 beat Wylde (Greymouth) 104. LADIES’ CORONATION MEDAL. The home links Coronationa'l of the Ladies’ Golf Union was played on all the Golf Union courses in New Zealand during the first week in June. This medal is competed for annually and was originally played for on the King’s Birthday, but it was found that some clubs competed in lino weather and others quite the reverse. For some years past each club Jias had the right to select one day during the first week in June on which to play. Ihe best score this year was returned by Mrs A. A. Wilson, of F estport, 91—11, 80. The Westport par being 84, Dlrs Wilson wa? 4 under par. two ladies tied for second place, Miss Bruce (Hagley), 85—15, 70, par 73; and Mrs Cooke, (Miramar), 91— 12. 79 on par 82, each being 3 under par. Other good scores were : Miss Robinson (Poverty Bay), 97 —20, 77 on par 78 ; Mrs Early, '(Avondale)’ 101 -17, 84 on par 84; Mrs Murphy (Auckland) 95—19, 76 on par 76. GLENEAGLES TOURNAMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 24. In the third round at the Gleneagles tourney, Ball beat Ritchie 5 and 1, Rivers beat Tiirnie 3 and 1 and McNeil beat Lockhart 8 and 6. Kirkwood led two up at the ninth hole, which was reached in 38, to Seymour’s 40, but the latter outplayed Kirkwood homewards, especially on the greens, taking only 33 to Kirkwood’s 37. Seymour putted brilliantly, and holed an eightyarderl at the last hole. Havers’ play was unconvincing. Tie took 41 out, and 43 home. The semi-finals resulted :—F. Ball beat Seymour 3 up and 1 to play ; Havers beat McNeill, 2 up and 1 to play. HAVERS’ VICTORY. LONDON, June 24. In the golf final at Gleneagles Havers beat Ball, 6 and 5. EXCUSES FOR KIRKWOOD.

(i . LONDON, June 25. Ihe “Daily Telegraph” says that the explanation of Kirkwood’s surprising defeat is perfectly simple, being Seymour’s miraculous putting. Going homewards he hacked out of bunkers to pinside and holeside putts of every imaginable length. His mistakes went unpunishable length. His mistakes went unpunished. Seymour had only to dig the ball out to somewhere on the green, and down went the putt, these must have been bitter moments lor Kirkwood, who had set his heart on winning the tournament, to atone ioi his failure at Troon. He returns to America empty-handed, to join lagen. The most galling thing, from Kirkwood’s point of view, was that lorn the moment Seymour opened his devastating torrent, the Australian made only one bad shot, but this brought about his destruction.