REPRESENTATIVE GOLF

Northern Advocate, 31 January 1928, Page 10

REPRESENTATIVE GOLF

KIRK-WINDEYER CUP. AUSTRALIANS THE WINNERS. DECISION ON 'HOLES. WELLINGTON, This Day. New Zealand yesterday lost the Kirk-Windeyer Cup to Australia on the Miramar links. Each team won three matches and oh holes being counted Australia had won by ten holes to six. The weather was ideal. Morpeth and Ross won their match in the foursome, and Horton and Grant each won their singles for New Zealand. Galleries followed the games closely. The game between Nigel Smith and W. R. Smith, for Australia, and S. Morpeth, and K. Ross, for New Zealand, was a keen struggle, the result being in doubt to the last hole. Nigel Smith was hitting a tremendous ball, while W. Smith showed, a marvellous gift of getting out of trouble well, though neither struck really good putting form. Morpeth and Ross played steadily, but both showed the effects of strain. The game was all square at the turn and again at the 16th. The 17th was the most spectacular hole of the match. W. Smith had played a magnificent iron shot from the left side of the fairway, but it kicked into the bunker hole high on the left. N, Smith, with a mighty explosion shot played it three feet from the pin, but Morpeth, from a ball nicely played jby Ross out of the marram grass, hoi ed a twenty-footer for a birdie three making New Zealand one up. The 18th hole was halved in five, Neu Zealand winning one up. The golf was singularly matched as regards the cards, each taking 31 out and 39 back. THE SECOND GAME. With the exception ' of one or twe holes, sterling golf was played be tween the New Zealanders, T. H Horton and Donald Grant, and th( Australians, W. R, Dobson and Le< Brown. A ten-foot putt sunk by Let Brown at the ninth gave the Aus tralians the hole, and they turned foi home two up. To the 16th, the Neu Zealanders were 1 in trouble, Australia winning in three. The 17th was halved in fours, and Australia, win ning the 18th 5—7, stood three up. SINGLES MATCHES. In the singles, Kenneth Ross de feated Nigel Smith by four up, and T. H, Horton accounted for W. R Smith by one up. W. R. Dobson de feated Donald Grant one up, and Lee Brown won his match with Morpeth six up. In the match between Lee Brown and Morpeth, the former turned twe up, going out in 34 to Morpeth’s 36 At the last hole, Morpeth missed a short putt and Brown finished six up he having come in in 36, as against Morpeth’s 40. Kenneth Ross had a comfortable win over Nigel Smith, the South Island player still displaying that consistency which has &een one of the features of the tournament.—Press Assn.