GOLF FINAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 May 1935, Page 7

GOLF FINAL.

AVON BA' AMERICAN.

LONDON, May 25.

In the British amateur golf championship final Lawson Little (United States) beat Tweddell, the 1927 champion, 1 up. Sixty thousand people watched the best golf final for years. It was notable for Tweddell’s marvellous recovery. Little was 3 up at the end of the morning round, taking 73, the best round of the championship. Tweddell sensationally won the first two holes in the afternoon, and thereafter there was a terrific struggle. Little regained a lead of three, but the Englishman squared the match at the twelfth with a perfect three. Tweddell then lost chances of going ahead, putting poorly, and was two down with three to play. Nevertheless, ho halved the 16th and won tho 17th amid tremendous excitement.

After playfng a bunker shot to the edge of the holo Tweddell halved the last, but this gave Little the victory. Little equalled Hilton’s record successive wins in, 1900 and 1901.

The stewards had great difficulty throughout the match in controlling tho big crowd.

WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP.

LONDON, May 24

Tho British women’s golf championship is taking place at Newcastle, County Down, Ireland. In the first qualifying round Miss Diana Fishwick leads with a score ot 75, a women’s record for the course.