BOBBY JONES IN BRITISH OPEN GOLF CONTEST

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7295, 4 August 1930, Page 9

BOBBY JONES IN BRITISH OPEN GOLF CONTEST

HOYLAKE, England.

Bobby Jones won tho British open golf championship June 20 for the third time, with a score of 291. Leo 11. Diegel, profesional champion of the United States, made a groat bid but finished two strokes behind Jones, taking 75 for the fourth round, the same score as Jones returned and giving him a total of 293. MacDonald Smith, a later starter, played par golf to tho turn and then clipped a stroke from perfect figures coming liome}^to go into a tip with hi? fellow professional, Diogel, for tho runner-up position. This was the veteran Scot’s speond great round of the championship, for he played tho first in 70 strokes.

The open champion of the United States increased his golf titles to three, as he won the amateur championship of Great Britain last month. He is the first man to hold the British amateur and open championships since John Ball accomplished the frtat in 1890. The Georgian won in spite of two shaky rounds. He took 74 strokes in the third rouijd, when he carded a, C, and 75 in tho fourth round when he tiad a 7 on his card. His first two rounds of 70 and 72 pulled him through. A- rising wind out of tho southwest, which emphasised Hoylake’s difficulties for the first time during the week, affected for tho fourth-round scoring. Smith and Jones, with 7’s at tho eighth bole, gave evidence of the forco of the Wind. At only ono hole—the fifteenth —did the wind help tho players. Despite rain the crowd ■ grew stead-

ily, and as Jones came out of the clubhouso for his fourth round, wearing an extra sweator, with ’ friends carrying other rain clothes, the doglegged first hole was lined .almost solidly from too to green. Before tho play started stewards warned tho spectators not to run and not to applaud until all putts were holed.

Jones started the round with a par 4at the first hole. A gallery estimated at 8000 went out with him. The American was just short of tho green with his second shot and holed a putt of four foet for his 4. He bagged a birdie 3 at the second hole. lie sliced into a bunker over tho fourteenth green in.playing tho hole, but made a Drilliant recovery and holed a 30-foot putt for his 3. Jones reached tho third green with his second, 50 feet from the pin, but his approach putt was 10 feet short and ho took two more for a 5. At the short fourth he again tliree-puttod, his approach putt leaving him nine feet short. A clean-cut iron shot at the fifth landed him 15 feet from tho pin and two putts gave him 4. At. the sixth his mashie was just off tho green, but ho chipped up and holed a five-foot-er. At the seventh ho was just short again, but chipped within inches of the pin and holed the putt. Playing in the face of a strong wind, lie was 30 yards short of the eighth green with a drive and. a brassic. His third was held up by tho grass aud failed to reach the green. After getting on in 4, he took three putts for a 7. Ho camo back with two lino shots at tho ninth to placo his ball IS feet from the pin and he was down in two putts. Tho 7 registered by Jones at tho eighth created great excitement among the galleries. It was the highest figuro he had ever scored in his spectacular career on British links.

Jones sent his second 15 feet from 'the pin at tho tenth and his first putt lipped the cup, getting down in 4. At the eleventh he reached the green with his mashie from the tee, but his ap.proacli putt Tan 10 feet past the cup and he missed coming back, taking 4. Tho wind was troubling all tho players. Jone’s drive was in the rough at the twelfth aud he took 4 for the hole, after lipping the cup with a putt. At the thirteenth hs was bunkered to the right of the green, chipped out chort and took two putts. Gets Into Bough

At the fourteenth his second finished in rough to tho left of the green. Ho chipped five feet from the cup and sank tho putt for his 4 after being inter-

rupted in addressing his ball by loud talking among tho spectators. His second at the fifteenth, was- caught by rough &nd his third ran. into rough also. 110 chipped dead to get his 5. He played a spectacular shot at tho sixteenth for a birdie 4. His second was bunkered to tho loft of tho gr.ecn and ho blasted it out. The ball rolled straight for the cup and missed going in by bare inches. Ho tapped it in for the 4. His pitch to tho seventeenth green left him a wee chip, but he sent the ball to within 12 feet of the cup and sent the putt spinning home. Ho sent his second soaring to the homo green, the ball stopping 15 feet past the pin. Ho was two feet past with his first putt, but holed tho second for the par four and the close of his last championship rounds at Hoylakc in 75. His card : Out 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 7 4—38 In 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4—37—75 291. Diegcl and Archie Compston threatened until Compston ruined his chances with 43 strokes for tho first nine in the afternoon and Dicgcl remained, in the race until the sixteenth hole when ho took a C.

Compston Plays 68 and 82. Compston, giant British professional, went from the sublime to the ridiculous in his last day's play. Ho broke tho course record in tho third round with a 68 and then fell away to S2 in the fourth round for a 72-hole score of 297. In his record-breaking round Compston, after going out in 34, was in a strategic position for a low score and ho took full advantage of his opportunity. He holed an IS-foot putt for a b'irdio 3 at the tenth, and a 10-footer for a par 3at the eleventh. At tho twefth he had only to 'hole ono of nine foot and at the short thirteenth ho seat his too 12 feet from the pin and sank tho putt. lie made a bad beginning as he started the five hard finishing holes, taking a five at the 14th, where the long hitters expect to bag birdies. Ho sent his drive at this hole into another fairway. He got his par at the 15th, but ran into trouble at the long 16th. He was short with his run-up shot, missed tho hole with a long putt and then saw a six-footer strike the back of the cup and jump out, leaving him with a 6. Two pars 4s then enabled him to get his 68 and to leave at the cfld of the third round. His final round, however, settled his chances and ho finished with an aggregate 297.