GOLF

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 June 1927, Page 2

GOLF

The following; have put down their names to play- at Feilding in a match against the Feilding Golf Club this week-end: —J. E. Lewis, W. L. Fitzherbert, ft. W. Cumbcrworth, W. A. Keeling, It. G. Moore, It. P. Abraham, T. Stubbs, H. G. Moore, G. J. Bugnull, T. W. Louisson, W. E. Winks, H. W. Pet re, E. It. Chapman, J. H. Taylor, S. J. Hannah, F. Bendall, J. P. Stubbs, R. H. Spencer, A.,J. Phillips, D. Macpherson. The Feilding Golf Club have only room for twenty players, so that the list is now complete unless any one of the above drops out. The J une bogey competition will be played next Saturday, 18th instant. lii tlie bogey and medal competitions players can now start, if they wish, from the Ist tee between 11 a.in. and 11. to a.m. Nobody may start between 31.45 a.m. and 1.15 p.m. It is thought some players may be glad to avail themselves of the extra starting time, and if only a few players do so, it will help to lessen the congestion. Play is not allowed after 11.45 # in order that the 11th tee (the place of starting for long handicap players) may be absolutely clear at 1.15 p.m., the ordinary starting time.

GOLF IN SYDNEY. SECOND ROUND. HORTON BEATEN. A RISING LIGHT. SYDNEY, June 14. The second round of the amateur golf championship was played in showery weather. i? ussell and Horton had a tremendous struggle. Horton started brilliantly with a 2 at the first hole. He lost the second. The third was halved. Horton won the fourth and Russell the fifth. The sixth was halved, but IlusselL won a long seventh with a splendid 4. After the eighth had lieen halved, Horton squared the match with a fine three at the ninth. Horton took three putts at the tenth, but a brilliant three at the eleventh squared the game again. The twelfth was halved, and Horton took the lead, winning tiic thirteenth, but a great three by llussell at the fifteenth evened things again. Horton sank a 30-foot putt for a half at the sixteenth, but missed his putt at the eighteenth and finished one down. Russell's round was 71 and Horton’s 72. In the afternoon Russell won the second and Horton the third. The Victorian won the fourth and fifth. The sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth were halved, though a stymie cost Horton a win at the eighth. Horton here commenced to putt badly, and lost the tenth and eleventh, and only halved the twelfth. He was then 4 down and G to play, tie won the thirteenth and fourteenth, but Russell negotiated a stymie at tin fifteenth for a half. Horton won the sixteenth, but pulled his tee shot at the seventeenth. His ball moved as lie was addressing it and lie duffed his third and Russell won the hole, and the match, 2 up and 1 to play. Hoi toil played a great game and was unlucky to strike a player like Russell at the top of his game.

Walter Smith, a youth, from the nine-1 ole course at Long Reel, made the sensation of the tournament. He defeated Murdoch in the first, and in the second overwhelmed Sturrock, the conqueror of Morrison. Details of the results are as follow: AVhitton defeated Harrison 6 up and 5 to play. Apperly defeated Nigel Smith, 11 and 10. Russell defeated Horton. 2 and 1. Walter Smith defeated Sturrock, 7 and s.—Press Association.