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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 April 1935, Page 6

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Sutherland and Dale Contest Championship ELTHAM PLAYER ONE DOWN TO-DAY’S PROGRESS RESULT

In the semi-finals of the Taranaki golf championship at Waiwakaiho today D. V. Sutherland beat A. E. Conway ope up and 11. P- Dale beat F. C. Hutchison at the nineteenth. In the final, Sutherland was one up on Dale at the turn at the time the late edition >of the “Hawera, Star” went to press. Other results were as follow: Waiwakaiho handicap.—Semi-final: M Meuli beat 11. St, L. Reeves 4 and 3, C. D'. Me All uni beat G. W. Haughton -l and 3. . ' Ngamotu handicap.—Semi-finals : J. Morrison beat A. Holly, one up; "V . Young beat F. Beavan 2 and one. Consolation handicap.—Semi-final: C McKay beat I. G. Parker 3 and one, G. F. Rich beat C. M. Hewett 3 and 2. T Sutherland’s brilliant golf gave L. T. Quin no chance in the second round of the championship yesterday and the latter’s steady 82 was useless. Completing the first half in two under fours Sutherland was unbeatable and started for home five up. He did not lose one hole in the entire match. After halving the first he took the next with a birdio three to five. The third was halved but Quin found serious trouble at the fourth and could not do better, than six. Sutherland took the sixth', seventh and eighth with a birdie and twos, bogeys and halved the ninth in threes. Quin’s approach at the long tenth was short and Sutherland’s won in five to six gave him a lead of six. Both took threes to reach the eleventh green, where Quin laid himself a dead stymie, but he negotiated it well for a half in fives. He was through the twelfth from the tee and could not compete with Sutherland's par three which ended the match. Sutherland played on for figures, but missed the course official record by two strokes when he was bunkered at the fifteenth and sixteenth, and pushed his second out at the seventeenth. His medal card was: Out 4,3, 4,4, 4,3, 4, o, 3—34 In 5, 5, 3,5, 3,5, 4,5, 4—39

Patchy putting almost cost Dale his match with Haworth and on three greens he required four putts. He took the first but lost the next to Haworth’s birdie three. The third was halved but Dale was down when he took four putts at the fourth after being well on with his second. He took the next two in bogey figures, however, and the seventh was halved in sixes when both found trouble. Dale drove out of bounds at the next while Haworth’s pulled stroke hit a post and returned to the fairway. half in fives resulted and the ninth was also halved for Dale to turn one up. Bad putting cost him the next three holes, but he got one back when Haworth failed to sink a three feet putt on the fourteenth. A further putting lapse by Dale put Ilawoi'th dormy two, but Dale fought back. He won the seventeenth and eighteenth when Haworth failed to negotiate a stymie on the last green. At the nineteenth Haworth was three feet short for three and when Dale played his third Haworth was faced with another dead stymie. Again lie failed and Dale saTTk his four.

Although his card was marred by a seven at the second, Conway played sound golf to heat Abbott. He took the first with a beautiful birdie three to four, but was square again after his lapse at the second. The next, two were halved in fives and Conway took the fifth in five to six when Abbott’s putter failed him. The latter’s par three, however, won the sixth and the match was momentarily square, but Conway’s four and five were wins at the next two and he finished the outward journey with a two to turn three up. He lost the tenth, but took the twelfth and fourteenth in par threes to be dormy four, and the fifteenth was halved.

Only six holes were halved in the Hutchison-Quin match, and the figures were very steady. Hutchison took the second and with two for a win at* the third he took three putts. Quin took the next three in a row with a birdie and two bogeys and after losing the seventh he turned one up, increasing this to two at the eleventh. Par figures gave Hutchison the next two to square the match, but Quin took the short fourteenth with a two, Hutchison missing a five feet putt for the same figure. A bout of fives cost Quin the fifteenth, sixteenth and last, his opponent taking fours.

COURSE PAR ALTERED. Par for the rlawera golf course has been altered once more, this time to 76, for the members of the Hawera Ladies’ Golf Club, who will now play from the men’s tee at Hummocks, keeping a. bogey 5 from the men’s tee at the Plateau with a bogey 5, and from a new tee at Westward Ho keeping bogey 4. The April L.G.U. modal will be played on Friday and tjie following is the draw: Miss Richardson v. Miss V. Death, Mrs Norman v. Miss A. Wills, Miss M. Bright v. Mrs Whitehead, Miss Robertson v. Mrs J. Pease, Mrs Duncan v. Mrs Dalgofcty, Mrs McAnerin v. Mrs Davy, Mrs Rlndgo v. Miss Pease, Mrs Walkloy v. Mrs Hunt, Mrs Gibson v. Mrs Ward, Mrs A. Thomson v. Miss Reilly, Mrs Cox v. Mrs Dingle, Mrs Kay v. Miss Elliott, Mrs L. Hall v. Miss Strange, Mrs Anderson v. Mrs Hawthorne, Mrs Pickett v. Mrs Olivet, Miss Murdoch v. Mrs Ritchie, Miss B. Ryan v. Miss H. Good, Mrs Adlam v. Mrs Collier, Miss Robb v. Miss Carson, Mrs Goodwin v. Mrs Giblin, Miss Tonks v. Miss J. McLean, Mrs Wylds a bve. The match committee are Mrs Dalgetty, Mrs Davy and Mrs A. Thomson.