PROFESSIONALS PLAY BRILLIANT GOLF

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6542, 25 February 1928, Page 9

PROFESSIONALS PLAY BRILLIANT GOLF

Butters Wins From Shaw After Exciting Finish GREAT PUTTING AT LAST HOLE (Per Press Association.) TTMAEU, Last Night. The New Zealand Professional Golf tournament was. concluded here to-day in bright weather, before a largo attendance of -the public. Play was of an exceptionally high order. Tho South Canterbury Championship was contested by fourteen and provided a very close and exciting finish, E. C. Butters (Miramar) winning the Cup by a magnificent fifteen-foot putt which gave him ono point over A _ J. Shaw (Napier). Both'played brilliant golf throughout the whole of tho last round. Butters established a lead of one at the seventeenth hole and both finished the last hole in four, Shaw also finishing with a splendid 12ft. putt. The players were given an ovation, Shaw completed a great round in tho morning, doing eighteen, holes in 68, which was 2 outside of J. H. Kirkwood’s record on the same links a few years ago. Cr. B. Forest (Timaru) who finished third, again gave a consistent display and but for a poor second round would have been hard to beat. J. A. Clements (Christchurch) who was level with Butters at tho start of tho final round, had a bad run in the afternoon and finished fourth. The third stroke handicap was won hy A. J, Shaw; (Napier) and the fourth stroke handicap went to G-. B. Forrest (Timaru).' Tho Dunlop Rubber Co’s. special for tho lowest nett aggregate in to-day’s play was won by A. J. Shaw, while G. B. Forrset secured tho eclectic special. Results— SOUTH CANTERBURY CHAMPIONSHIP (aggregate’scores) .

First Second Bay Bay R. C. Butters (Miramar) 143 150 A. J. Shaw (Napier). .. 154 140 G. B. Forrest (Timaru) . 153 143 Ai'J. Clements (Chch.) . 148 151 J. E. Galloway (P.N-) . 149 153 J. Forrest (Dunedin) .. 153 154