Miss Collins Is Lady Champion

Northern Advocate, 21 October 1938, Page 4

Miss Collins Is Lady Champion

NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.

Competing for the first time in a national tournament, Miss S. Collins. Wellington, won the New Zealand ladies’ golf championship yesterday, when she defeated the Tasman Cup representative, Miss Jean Horwell, of Timaru. The southerner made a determined and gallant fight, after being five down with eight holes to play. Remarkable Play.

Better golf by women players has never been seen on the New Zealand course, and possibly not before in a national title. In the finals, both players carded 76 in the afternoon round, one stroke over bogey, and three better than the 79 recorded by Miss Collins in the morning—at that stage the best score ever made by a woman on the course. In the afternoon she completed the first nine in 37, one under bogey, carding bogey figures at each hole save the second, where a' birdie four went down. Coming home she had one or two lapses and took 39, two over bogey. Miss Collins’ card read: Out-: 4,4, 4,5, 4, 3. 5,5, 3—37. In: 5,5, 4, 4. 4,4, 4,5, 4—39. Golf In The Family. The new champion is a daughter of Mr and Mrs D. C. Collins, both of whom have reached the quarter-finals of national tournaments. Her father

'■s equally well-known as a New Zealand representative cricketer. Her .-rnndmother. Mrs W. E, Collins, was

inalist in the women's national cham

pionship, and her aunt, then Miss Vida Collins, won the New Zealand championship in 1910 and 1912. The winner of the 1938 championship has ,von the Wellington title and the Wai•arapa championship, but has not be.ore entered a New Zealand championship tournament. In order to compete in the championship, Miss Collins and two other :ompetitors drove to New Plymouth n a motor truck that is used on her

lather’s farm, because her car was not large enough to hold all the gear they required for the cottage they occupied at the beach during the tournament.