CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF
KIRICWOOD DISSERTATES.
LO7ALTY TO AUSTRALIA.
(Received 9 a.m.)
LONDON", June 16,
Kirkvood has arrived by the Aquitania fit and confident. He brought a very valuable piece of luggage, name-, ly the championship cup, which for. the past year has been in Hagen's possession. Hagen is not defending the title.
Kirkwood said that though he had not competed in many American competitions during the last few months he was playing as well as ever. He liked Troon and Prestwick and was •determined to do his utmost 1 not to repeat his performance at Troon in 1923, when! he threw away a / wonderfully rosy fehance of winning .-the championship by « patchy'last rdund. He hotly denied the rumour he was taking oiit American naturalisation. He was
very proud to remain an Australian and hoped yet to bring honour to the country to which he owed everything. He agreed with many British writers that Mat-Donald Smith is' the most formidable American competitor, declaring, "whoever beats him will win the championship."
Kirkwood is going to Troon tomorrow to commence practice on Thursday. He is hoping to arrange a tour of Australia snd New Zealand towards the end of the year, with Hagen, Duncan or some other world-famed player, but no definite arrangements have yet been made.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 18 June 1925, Page 5
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