GOLF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18996, 18 April 1925, Page 12

GOLF.

FIXTURES FOR TO-DAY. Auckland Club. —Four-ball best-ball bogey. Gleudowio Club.—Mixed foursomes. ■ Maungakiekie Club.—Medal handicaps on both links. AUCKLAND CLUB. The Auckland Club will hold a fourball best-ball bogey competition at tho Middlemoro links to-day. Post entries will bo received and players will cljoqso their owi) partners. Tho recent raws have had n beneficial effect on the course, and it should be in first-class condition by next week-end. GLENDOWIE CLUB. Tho Gleudowio Golf Club will hold mixed foursomes to-day. Players will ehooso partners and opponents, and tho prizes will go to those securing tho best medal scores less half the combined handicap. Tho Glendowie links are in fino order after tho rain. MAUN GAKIEKIE CLUB. Medal handicaps will be played on both links to-day. Players may choose their partners. The match at the Titirangi links will be divided into two gradessenior and junior. TARANAKI LADIES' TITLE. [by telegraph.—press association.] NEW PLYMOUTH. Friday. Tho Taranaki ladies' golf championship was won by Mrs. H. Collinson (Palmerston North) to-day, when she defeated Mrs. Broderick (Wanganui) in the final, four up and two. Mrs. Collinson won tho championship last year. WELLINGTON CHAMPIONSHIP. DUNCAN TAKES THE CDP. The charge of the Wellington provincial golf championship cup has again fallen to A. D. S. Duncan, who won the titlo at Heretaunga links on Tuesday afternoon, when he defeated D. G. Whyto' by playing almost faultless golf over 13 holes. Prior to Easter, 1923, Duncan's name had appeared on the cup continuously over tho years of its being. Then C. Bidwill came down from the Wairarapa and annexed it from Duncan. Last year Duncan was again in the final, but a round of par golf was more than he could stand up to at the time, and T. H. Horton, who played that round, took the cup up to Masterton for a year, but brought it back to hand over to Duncan for the ensuing year. Duncan played some fairly bright golf in the tournament, but it was not until Tuesday afternoon's match that he really got down to form, and ho then played magnificent golf that was quite too good for the less experienced Whyte to grapple with. The big defeat was far from a disgrace, however, for Whyte finished up only a couple of strokes over bogey, and so completed three days' tournament play in which he was only once over 80, which is verv fine going for a player who, up to this time, the handicappers have not seen fit to reduce below 4. Throughout the final Whyte ontdrovo Duncan by as much as 20 yards, but be was a little erratic with it, and was called upon to make one or two fine recoveries to remain in the game. At tho request of tho gallery Duncan plaved tho round out, the remaining holes taking him 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, and giving him a 70 for tho round.