GOLF IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19663, 15 June 1927, Page 11

GOLF IN AUSTRALIA.

CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY. NORTON'S FINE LOSING GAME. (Received June 14, 10.50 p.m.) A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. June 14. The weather was cold and showery today for the second round of match play in the New South Wales amateur golf championship. The results of the day's play are : Ivo Whitton (Victoria) defeated K. Harrison (New South Wales), 6 up and 5. Apperlev (New South Wales) defeated Nigel Smith (New South Wales), 11 up and 10. Russell (Victoria) defeated T. H. Horton (New Zealand), 2 up and 1. Walter Smith (New South Wales) defeated Sturrock (New South Wales), 7 up and 5. Russell and Horton had a tremendous struggle. Horton started brilliantly in the morning with two at' the first hole. Then he lost the second and the third was halved. Horton won the fourth and Russell the fifth. The sixth was halved, but Uussell won a long seventh with a birdie four. After the eighth had been halved Horton squared the match with a birdie three at the ninth. Horton took three putts at the tenth, but a brilliant three at the eleventh squared the game again. The twelfth was halved and Horton took the lead by winning the thirteenth, but a great three by Russell at the fifteenth evened things again. Horton sank a 30ft. putt for a half at the sixteenth but missed a putt at the eighteenth and finished one down. Russell's round was 71 and Hort&ji's 72.

In the afternoon Russell won the second and Horton the third. The Victorian won the fourth and fifth. The sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth were halved, though a stymie cost Horton a win at the eighth. Horton here commenced to putt badly. He lost the tenth and eleventh and only halved the twelfth. He was then four down and six to play. He won the thirteenth and fourteenth, but Russell negotiated a stymie at the fifteenth for a half. Horton won the sixteenth, but pulled his tee shot at the seventeenth. His ball moved as he was addressing it and he duffed his third and Russell won the hole and the match, two up and one to play..

Horton played a great game and was unlucky to strike a player like Russell at the top of his game. Smith, a youth from a nine-hole course at Long Reef, made the sensation of the tournament. He defeated Murdoch in the first round and in the second overwhelmed Sturrock, the conqueror of Morrison.