LADY GOLF CHAMPIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 14

LADY GOLF CHAMPIONS

SUCCESSES IN AUSTRALIA Miss Mona Maclood won tlto Vietorinn women's golf championship, and Miss Odette Lefebvro' that of Now South Wales. In each case the golf played by the winner reached a very high standard, and each registered a . record score during her progress through tho contest which she wou. It would have been gratifying to be able to state that tho runner-up in each case was a good second, but that, unfortunately, was not the case, for Miss Macleod defeated Miss Tolhurst 9 and ;8, and Miss Lefebvro overcame Miss Corry 8 and 7. .That is not to say, however, that ifche players who filled tho honourable ■ proximo accessit positions respectively • either lack in skill or failed temperamentally in tho stress and flurry of the final match, says an Australian writer. Their shortcomings on tho day were just part of tho most elusive (if all . games which from time to time assails tho greatest as well as the humblest player. Only the other day, , when contesting tho world's championship, Walter Hagen himsolf, after amazing with his brilliancy one day in a round of G8 at St Andrews, "caused equal amazement tho next with an 82, ' which' would do little credit to! the champion, of -one of our humbler suburban cluba*