RECORD ESTABLISHED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21911, 21 September 1934, Page 15

RECORD ESTABLISHED

ROUND OF SEVENTY-FIVE

MISS BARNS-GRAHAM'S FEAT AUSTRALIANS DISAPPOINTING The outstanding feature of yesterday's play was an afternoon round of 75 by Miss W. Barns-Graliain, of Gisbome. This established a new record for the course, the previous figures of 76 standing to the credit of Miss 0. Kay.

Miss Barns-Graham is the first player to equal the ladies' scratch score for the course. She was one over to the turn, but came home one under the scratch score, picking up a stroke at the long 17th. Her card was:—

Out: 44455534 4—38 In:- 53553444 4—37

Miss O. Stevens followed up her morning success by returning an afternoon card of 80, going out in 39 and returning in 41. Miss Gaisford scratched for the bogey handicap in order to rest for championship play, while Miss Kay tore up her card, her figures being so disappointing.

The members of the Australian team did not perform up to expectations, at least two of therfx, Miss J. Hammond and Mrs. Robinson, the captain, returning poor cards of 9 down and 7 down respectively. Miss MacLeod was 2 down and Miss Bailey and Miss Lascelles each 3 down. The visitors appeared to be unable to accurately and consistently gauge the strength of the fast greens. Nearly all the spectators followed the inter-islahd match between Miss Kay and Miss Gaisford, but the inconsistent play of both was a little disappointing. Miss Kay was 3 up over the first six holes, her opponent not scoring a success until the seventh. The New Zealand champion was again 3 up at the ninth, but fortunes then fluctuated until Miss Gaisford squared the match at the 17th. A badly played second cost her the final hole and the match.

After the first hole had been decided in fours, Miss Gaisford lost the second through placing her tee shot in the gully to the right. Both duffed their seconds at the next hole, which went to Miss Kay in 5 to 6, and she was 2 up. The fourth and fifth were halved in four and five respectively. There was an interesting incident at the fifth, where Miss Gaisford's second putt hung on the lip of the hole, leaving her opponent a stymie. Miss Kay was taking out her putter when Miss Giaisford's ball rolled in for a half in five. A single putt at the sixth increased Miss Kay's lead to 3 up. Miss Gaisford won her first hole at the seventh in 3 to 4, iand she lost a golden opportunity at the next by approaching right through the green. It was a badly played hole by both for a half in five. A splendid second by Miss Kay, followed by a nicely-judged approach putt, placed her in a position to increase her lead once more to 3 up at the turn. Miss Kay had a difficult lie for her second at the tenth, and a poor third enabled the northerner to clinch her advantage. The champion was deep in the bunker at the succeeding hole and just chipped out. Miss Gaisford obtained a great line with her approach, the ball striking the cup squarely, but bouncing over. She then missed & three-foot putt, but won the hole in 4 to 5. / Successive Stymies Having to play a provisional second on account of driving into the teatree cost Miss Gaisford the opportunity of halving the twelfth, although she had actually stymied her opponent on the green. Miss Gaisford was now outdriving the champion and her second was in good line for the Wrecker. Her approach stymied the Otago player, but a pulled shprt putt nullified her advantage and a-half in five resulted. Miss Kay's, lead was once more reduced to one when she missed a " twofoot putt at the short fourteenth. She was verv lucky to escape with a half at the fifteenth, where she played very weak seconds and thirds. Another pulled putt cost Miss Gaisford the win. Miss Gaisford made a beautiful low drive at the sixteenth, whereas her opponent cut hers into the rough. That her lie was not difficult, however, was evidenced by the fact that she was able to place her second on the green. Miss Gaisford was inches short with an eightfoot putt and a half resulted Two excellent shots placed Miss Gaisford on the green at the seventeenth and she putted to within a foot of the hole. Miss Kay made an excellent attempt to sink a putt of over 20 feet after duffing her approach, and the match was all square. With the result hinging on the final hole there was a large congregation round the green in front of the clubhouse. A weak second, in which she lofted the ball short, placed Miss Gaisford at a disadvantage, from which she was unable to recover, Miss Kay winning the hole in 4 to 5 and with it the match. Keen .Encounter The match between Miss Fleming and Miss Barns-Graham provided another very keen encounter, a feature being the recording of birdies by the Gisbome player at the first, twelfth and fourteenth holes. , Miss Helean lost an opportunity ot halving the first with Mrs. Dodgshnn when she tried to negotiate a stymie instead of playing for a half. Mrs. Dodgshun was 5 up at the turn, but lost the twelfth and thirteenth, Miss Helean getting a nice 4 at the Wrecker. The next two were halved and the match ended. . , Miss O. .Stevens and Miss Rutherford were square at the turn, and the North Shore player took the lead at the tenth., Miss Stevens became A up with a two at the fourteenth, and reaching the green in two, decided the match at the next hole. Mrs. McCarthy, who played in the championship as long ago as 1896, did remarkably well to take Miss Culling to the seventeenth. Miss M. Stevens proved too experienced for her young Canterbury opponent, Miss Stevenson.