GOLF

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1926, Page 5

GOLF

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association).

LONDON, June 18.

In the goH' championship, the southern section scores of lb 4 and under qualified, they including Perez (Argentina )149, and Melhorn 150. In the central section, scores of 155 and under qualified ,including Jurado (Argentina) 146; Barber and Gaudin 147 each, the American’s Watrons, Armour, and MacLeod (all 149) ; and Boomer and the American French 153 each. Carnegie and Clark (163) did not qualify. Excepting Howard, the Australian competitors, Kirkwood, Topplewell, Carnegie, Clark and Sinclair had the disadvantage of playing in heavy rain, but they made the best of the difficulties. A feature of the qualifying stage was the phenomenal brilliancy of Bobby Jones, whom Barden, Taylor, and Hilton describe as the greatest golfer of all time. The newspaper “Star” describes Bobby Jones’s play as the finest exhibition of golf i# the whole history of the open championship, being a magnificent example of the unison of head, heart and hands. The “Evening News” declared that he is super-perfect. It could not recall another competition where an amateur, in doing 36 holes, returned only one five., MITCHELL V. HAGEN. LONDON. June 18. Mitchell and Hagen, in £5OO challenge match, seventy-two holes, wer? all square at the ninth. roaaawiaiiMciaMitLMiMMßnrrti