GOLF

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1932, Page 8

GOLF

BETTINGTON WINS N.S.W. TITLE.

[BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, June 26. Bettington played faultless golf in the final of the State Amateur Championship to defeat Dobson by seven up and five. In the presence of four thousand, people, the game started sensationally.. Dobson got on the green with a great tee shot, and he sank a twenty-foot putt for an “eagle” two to Bettington’s “birdie.” Bettington won the second hole. The next was halved. Dobson won the fourth hole; Bettington the fifth, and Dobson the sixth. The seventh and eighth were halved. Bettington won th|e (ninth hole, where the match was all square. Bettington took the lead for the first time at the tenth, but Dobson made the game all square again at. the twelfth hole with a birdie three. Two more were halved and the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth holes were won by Bettington, who was thus leading three up at the end of the first eighteen holes, the approximate stroke rounds being: Bettington 77, Dobson 81.

Over the second nine holes of the morning round, a strong wind made play difficult. The only really bad hole, however, was the par five sixteenth, which Bettington gaiped by six to seven. The nineteenth was halved with birdie threes, the twentieth in par fours, the twenty-first in par threes, and the twenty-second in par fours. Dobson pushed his second in a bunker at the next, and Bettington went to four up. He increased his lead to five" up at the twenty-fifth with a birdie four. Another birdie at the next hole made Bettington six up. The twenty-seventh was halved in par fours. At this stage Bettington’s figures read —3,4, 3,4, 4,3, 4,3, 4—Total 32, being three under par. Dobson’s figures were— 3,4, 3,4, 5,3, 5,4, 4—total 35. Despite the fact that Dobson went out in par figures, he failed to win one hole. On the contrary he found himself fighting often for a half. The twenty-eighth hole was halved. Dobson laid his opponent stymie at the next, and won the hole four to five. Two visits to bunkers by Dobson at the thirteenth gave Bettington a win to make him dormie six. Dobson failed to get out of a pot at the thirtyfirst, and Bettington, still playing with deadly accuracy, won the hole and the match, seven and five.

SARAZEN’S LATEST WIN. NEW YORK, June 25. With a phenomenal last-round score of 66, Gene Sarazen won the open golf championship with a score of 286. ' Cruickshank also rallied at the finish, to tie with Perkins for second. They scored 289 each. Diegel was next with 294; others being Cox 295, Dutra. Jarado, Cooper and Barker each 297; and Hagen 298. Kirkwood was far behind with 304. Sarazen’s score has only been equalled once in the 36 years of the Open Championship history. GREY CLUB MATCHES. Matches conducted by the Greymouth Golf Club at the Omoto links on Saturday resulted: — M. Smith beat Buchanan. A. K. Smith and Coltman, all square Chatfield beat E. Warnes. Clay and Meldrum, all square. A. Warnes beat P. Warnes. Casey beat Graham. Grimstone beat McCallum. McKane beat Dodson.

The Greymouth v. Hokitika match, set down to be played yesterday, was postponed until next Sunday, on account of unfavourable weather conditions.