PROFESSIONAL GOLF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21793, 7 May 1934, Page 10

PROFESSIONAL GOLF

DUNLOP COMPETITION VICTORY FOR PADGHAM LONDON, May 1 The £I6OO Dunlop golf competition was won by A. H. Padgham, of the Sundridgc Park Club, Kent, with a total of 279. T. H. Cotton was second with 281 and C. Whitcombe third with 287.

Other scores include: Mitchell, Brews, McDowall, 289; Compston, 290; Lacev, R. Whitcombe, H. Rudd, 294; Avton, 293; Whitcombe, Davies, Havers, 297; Dai ley, 299.

Padgham's aggregate is the lowest ever returned for 72 holes in a major competition. His rounds were 70, 70, 68, 71. Ho actually averaged 70 over six rounds, including the qualifying rounds.

Cotton followed yesterday's effort with a fine morning round of 69. He went out in the afternoon needing 65 to win. Ho ciimo near achieving his objective when ho holed tho first nine in 34. When he 'was three to play he required holes of 4, 4, 3 to equal Padgham's figures.

Tho hitter's greatest effort in the final round was when ho knew that Cotton was pressing and recorded threes at tho tenth (453 yards), the eleventh (378 yards), and tho twelfth (356 yards).

STOCKINGS FOR LADIES NEW SOUTH WALES RULE. CHAMPION WILL NOT OBEY SYDNEY, May 5 Miss Odette le Febvre, New South Wales golf champion, declined to play in an interclub match rather than wear stockings. This decision followed the introduction this week of a rule forbidding tho appearance of women without stockings in competitive events under the control of the Ladies' Golf Union.