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BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP. AVON BY HAGEN. CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 28. Por the second occasion Walter i) (United States) has won the nntish open golf championship This .vear, with a score of 301, he finished one point ahead of E. R. Whitoombe (Carnedown). fifteen thousand were - present at iovlalie and they witnessed a thrilling finish. Hagen made a dogged fight. After a first round score of 74 he took 41 going out m the second round, then came news of Whitcombe’s 302. Hagen made a Hen-hearted effort and played superbly over the homeward ha it. winch he had to do in 36. This no did, his card reading: 44 4 3 4 4 5 4 4.
Excitement was intense at the last two holes. Hagen had a. nice lie off the fairway at tiie seventeenth and played a beautiful iron shot. He drove just over the green at- the eighteenth and was two and a half yards short at the third, but he holed out amidst a terrific ovation. Details:' W alter Hagen (United Btates) ... 301 Jt. It. Wlnteombe (Carnedown) ... 302 Macdonald Smith (United States) 304 Trank Bell (England) SO4 J. H. Taylor (Mid-Snmw) 007 Geo. Duncan (Hanger Hill) 303 Len. Holland (Northampton) 308 Aubrey Boomer (St. Cloud) 308 J. Sherlock (Hunstanton) 309 J. C. Barnes (United States) 309 Todd 300 Gilbert Nicholl (United States) ... 310 A. Herd (England) 310 Cyril Tolley (Royal and Ancients) 314 James Braid (England') 344 Arthur G Havers (England) ...... 317 Edward Ray (England) ;... 349 Gene Sarazen (United States)".'.! 323 < -V„ Whitcomt,e . (England) was disqualified for plaving a wrong hall. Abe Mitchell (United States) retired in the third round.
The championship was not played during the war years. The winners since then have been : G. Duncan 1920 J. Hutchinson 4994 W. Hagen 1922 ‘V. Havers 4993
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 June 1924, Page 7
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