AUSTRALIAN GOLF

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN GOLF

MORPETH LOSES IN FINAL

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.)

ADELAIDE, August 29. Sloan Morpeth (N.Z.) lost the amateur golf championship to Ryan two up and one to play. Morpeth was not quite up to his recent brilliance, and was unlucky with libs putting. Morpeth won the first three holes by steady play, but was showing a tendency to wander. The pair, at the turn, were thiirty-nine each. Morpeth was out of bounds at the tentih, and took seven to hole out, and he los£ the hole. He had an unplayable lie in a crater in the next. Ryan got an excellent two at the sixteenth. Morpeth holed in four at the seventeenth, his 500 yards favourite hole. They were square at the end of the morning. In the afternoon Ryan was one up at the turn. Morpeth’s putting We'S unlucky. He took six at the twentyseventh. Ryan w 7 as one up-at the turn. He got a perfect four with an accurate 20-foot putt. At the twentyninth Morpeth got a birdie three, and the match was squared. Morpeth hit the back of the tin with a chip shot at the next, narrowly missing a three. On the next they were par with four. Two holes .later, Ryan sank an 18footer for two, making him dormy two. Approaching strongly at the thirty(ifth, Morpeth putted from the bank over 15 yards, and stopped three feet short of the hole, which was halved with a birdie four. .