PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 9 April 1934, Page 7

PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS.

WHITCOMBE’S ROEHAMPTON WIN LONDON, April 7. In the Roehamptou professional golf tournament semi-finals, Lacey heat Perry '3 and 2, and Whitoombe beat Kenyon 4 and 2. In the final, Whitcombe beat Laoey 7 and 5. Roeliampton, the first important professional golf tournament of the season, finished as it began with remarkable figures. Wliitcombe took the lead early in the final, and turned for home 3 up with a score of 37 to 40. He made certain of the match by winning the next four in 2,3, 3,3 to Lacey’s 4,4, 4, 4. ■ Whitoombe won by wonderful pitching and putting. Lacey missed a foot putt at a critical point. Neither his nor Perry’s play compared with their games on Friday. The earlier rounds provided great thrills. The biggest surprise was the defeat of King, the hero of the qualifying stages. In the morning he had an astonishing victroy. He was two down at the eighth, and then made a marvellous finish, his figures for the last nine holes being 2,3, 3,4, 2,5, 4, 3,3, which was six under bogey, but in the second round King crashed badly. He was four down at the turn, going out in 42 and never again found touch. .

Lacey had a great day. He defeated Mitchell in the morning and Cotton in the afternoon after a desperate affair ending at the nineteenth. Lacey is one of the new school and a long hitter. He recorded a number of colossal drives with a steel-shafted driver, the head of which is made of a special kind of metal. One drive was 275 yards against a stiff wind.