GOLF TOURNEY
THE LUCIFER SOCIETY NEW ZEALANDERS COMPETE [FROM OUR OWN COnRF.SPONDKNT] LONDON. June 'JO Three New Zealanders played last week in the Lucifer Golfing Society's Empire Overseas Meeting—lt. C. Horton (Auckland), F. G. Major (Palmerston North), T. 0. Walker (Waikato). Hortou qualified for tho finals, and returned scores of 9 down and 6 down. Major, who also qualified, returned a card with 12 down. Walker was 9 down. The meeting provides two days' interesting and enjoyable golf on courses at Stoke Poges, Moor Park and Oxhcy. At Stoke Poges, T. S. McKay, former Australian champion, broke the amateur record for tho course with a round of 66. The previous best was 68, made 25 years ago by It. H. de Montmorency.
C. S. Guthrie, a Scot, who plays his golf on a 12-holes course in Nigeria, won tho leading prize with a return of five up. He is accustomed to sand greens, but his putting left nothing to be desired when ho holed the last nine in .'36 —two under the scratch score—and won his five holes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23094, 20 July 1938, Page 23
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