GOLF

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1932, Page 3

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ENGLISH. CHAMPI ONSH il> (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON. June 9. Of\ the open golf championship, sixty-four, scores of 154 and under qualified for the two final! rounds. Saraxeu is the leader with an aggregate of 139. Alli.ss took 142, Cdtnpalon, (j. A-. Wliiti'ombo, and Davies 144. Others include Armour, Havers, and Hobson 145 ; (Jetton 146, MacDonald Smith 147, Torrance, I’adgliam and .Mitchell 148, Perry, Kn.sterbi'ook. !!. Whitcornbe, and Hartley 149, Hudson 150, Brad nea r 151, (,'nrl i Bay, Dobson, and Meßuvip 152. Twine, DaH'omagm), Taggart, and Mei Minn 154.

The unqualified include Miyamoto !f)8, Duncan 160, and Do Forest 166 Michael Scott mad B no return. Windless midsummer weal her favoured low scores at Sandwich. Snrazen achieved a record fur the lir.si half of the championship, with 139. Bobby .lone-:' 140 at St. Andrews u 1927, was the previous best. Sara/.cm added a great second round partly due to patches of good ihiok, hu! iuuluded a number of brilliant, recoverin' from awkward [daces. His greatest shot was at the 12th where ho sliced his drive into the thick rough, a mighty 180 yards, A heavy rriasliie shot put him on the edge of !i" gre oi. He iaid the approaches, dead, needing only one putt on each of five greens. Alli.ss and Davies were terribly -disappointing. Both had the opportunity of gaining 1 lt e lead. Allies cracked at the fifteenth. Davies, if lie '('cured *y ’ r figures at the fiisl five. would have been sixty-eight, but it was a mo’aneholy finish, as he dropped a stroke af^every hole. Despite' Sara/oil's lend, nobody in anywise lias abandoned hope of a British victory. Macdonald Smith had an nphil: struggle, as he- began disastrously with a seven the first ho.e. Armour had such a disappointing first 9. that the crowd deserted him. Nevertheless, he came home brilliantly, with thirty-three, comprising sixfours, and three threes. OPEN championships. WON BY SABAZF.X. LONDON, June 10. Sara/.en won the British open golf championship with a record aggregate of 283.