OPEN GOLF FOURSOMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 137, 9 May 1930, Page 7

OPEN GOLF FOURSOMES

LADIES’ AUTUMN COMPETITION. PLAY IN SEMI-FINALS. CONCLUSION THIS AFTERNOON. Marking the conclusion of the first competition of its kind to bo held in the Dominion, the final of the autumn foursomes inaugurated by the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union took place at the Hokowhitu links, this afternoon, when Miss M. Guy (Manawatu) and Miss B. Gaisford (Marton) met Mrs Guy Williams and Miss B. Williams (Masterton). Both pairs were scratch players and began the match on level terms, after winning their respective games this morning. The course was m splendid order. Both semi-finals this morning provided exceptionally keen struggles, and in each instance the issue had to be decided at the nineteenth hole. Mrs Guy Williams (donor of the cups) and her daughter, Miss B. Williams, scr., met Miss S. Watson (Manawatu) and Miss E. Bell (Wellington) scr. Bad luck dogged the Masterton pair in the early phases of the game, when they were a little unsteady, but on the other hand their opponents, who played fairly good approaches, failed to sink some comparatively easy putts. When the first five holes had been played, Misses Watson and Bell led one up. Approaching the sixth, Mrs Williams placed her fourth behind the bunker, and Miss Williams hit the ball in. Mrs Williams chipped it out with difficulty. The Masterton pair lost the hole, making them two down. Mrs Williams and her partner won the next, but Misses Watson and Bell took the succeeding hole and conditions were restored as before. Mrs Williams was faced with a difficult shot at the ninth, practically from behind a tree, and slio played into the right bunker, her opponent’s drive having landed in the left one. Miss W’illiams failed to play out of the bunker, but Mrs Williams found the grefii with her fourth shot. The hole proved disastrous for the Masterton pair, and their opponents won it to lead three up as they turned for home. Both narrowly missed sinking long putts at the tenth, which was halved in four. Approaching the eleventh, Mrs Williams played the second shot over the bank on to the edge of the swamp. Miss Williams, in endeavouring to reach the green, went right across over the bank on the other side. Miss Watson missed an easy putt, but Mrs Williams failed to square the hole with a short putt. Misses Watson and Bell now led four up. The Masterton pair won the Lagoon Hill hole, where both were in the rough with their approaches. The thirteenth was halved in six. Dli«» Williams duffed the second shot approaching the fourteenth, but the Masterton pair won the hole. Miss Williams’s tee shot to the next failed to rise properly and travelled only a few yards, while Mrs Williams duffed her shot, and the Masterton pair took three to reach the fairway proper. Their opponents won the hole. Thereafter, the Masterton pair began to make a splendid recovery, and with the issue in the balance, they managed to square the match at the eighteenth hole, despite the fact that Mrs Williams had to play out of a bunker. Approaching tiie nineteenth Miss Watson had to play the third shot out of the bunker. Mrs Williams laid the ball dead on the pin, and Miss Williams sank the putt to win the hole 4—5 and the match 1 up at the nineteenth.

There was another splendid match when, Misses Gaisford (Marton) and Guy (Manawatu) scr., met Mrs DlacRao (Masterton) and Miss Pharazyn (Napier), hep. 4. Miss Gaisford drove a good shot from the tee at the first and her partner found the green with the second. Mrs Mcßae was short with her drive and with her partner took three to the green. Miss Gaisford and her partner won the hole. Mrs Mcßae drove the second through the bunker at the next, while her partner, Miss Pharazyn, missed an eighteen-indr putt, and their opponents led two up. Miss Pharazyn played her shot on to the rough edge of the bunker at the third, blit Sirs Macßae chipped it nicely on to the green. The hole was halved in six, and the next was won by Misses Gaisford and Guy, making them three up. Play continued steadily until, with the aid of their handicap, Mrs Mcßae and Miss Pharazyn were one up at the conclusion of the sixteenth. Miss Plrarazyn was short in her approach to the seventeenth, which was halved. Misses Gaisford and Guy equalised on iho eighteenth, and Miss Gaisford drove beautifully to the ninteentlr. Mrs Macßae was in the semi-rough to the right, and Miss Pharazyn played the second shot into the bunker. Mrs Macßae chipped the ball on to ilie green, but Miss Guy ended the game when she sank a long putt to win the hole 4—5 and the match one up at tlie nineteenth.

GAME POPULAR IN AUCKLAND. MUNICIPAL COURSE LIKELY. (By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) AUCKLAND. May. 8. Auckland may have a municipal golf course in tiro near future. An expert is now investigating tho possibilities of an area at Remuera, and is to furnish a report to the City Golf has increased in popularity with great rapidity, and private courses are now reaching the limits of the possiblo membership.