GOLF.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 496, 23 September 1905, Page 2

GOLF.

Arthur Duncan Champion.

Prosa. Association,

Auckland^ Easti Night. The New Zealand Amateur Goff Championship wsa decided to day. The r«=f ults of the previous rounds had kit Arthur Duncan, of Wellington (who held the championship; of New! ZealWd for three years prior, to 1904), to playoff the final with his younger brother Konneth/ The final consisted of two rounds 6118 holes and after a fairly interesting game the championship was again won by Arthur Duncan, the game being decide* at too 32nd hole,, when the ex champion, was flvo lip and lour" to play. The day was cold, and showery with, a somewhatl trying wind, and in the circumxtanoeß it is not surprising that the pUy wm hardly up to New Zealand championship form. Both players showed frequonl w«ik' nesses on the ' greens-;! and -wew occasionally loose in their approaching, neither being apparently in tip-top form. The spectator?, however, were treated I? a good all-round; exhibition of golf, an* the loser though playing an op-hilt game, stuck pluckily to bis task andi made the contest interesting throughout. The game wag practically won in th» first round, the winner only holding bi* own in the second, and but for iho unexpected "collapse of 'the younger player at the tail end of the first round the champion would no doubt havel»ad harder work to win. The following aw the scores :— ■'

First round—A. Duncan, (put) 4, 5,4, 5, 6,4, 5, 4, s—total 42; (in) 5, 4, : iS, 5, 5, 4. 5, 4,5 -total 42. K. Duncan,*'(oat) 5,4, 4, 7,4,6, 5, 5, 6-tota| 46;. (in) 5, 4, 4,3, 5, 5,-6, s,7—total 44. '

Second round—A. Duncan, (out) 6, 6, 3, 6, 4. 5, 5, 4, 6^total 44; (in) 6,t6, 5, 4, 4—total 25. K. Duncan, (out) 5, 5, 4, 6. 4, 5, 6, 4, 6-total 45 ; (in) 7, 4, 8, 4, s—total 23.