SENSATIONAL GOLF

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11934, 15 September 1924, Page 9

SENSATIONAL GOLF

AMATEUR FINAL QUIN DEFEATS GOSS (HOLDER) 8 UP AND 7 TO PLAY. FORMER’S WONDERFUL PLAYING Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, September 1?. Sensational golf was played in the final of the New Zealand Amateur Golf Championship to-day, L. Quin (Elthain) defeating J. Goss (Wanganui) 8 up and 7 to. play. It was by far the best match of the tournament, Quin playing wonderfully, with hardly a mistake, while Goss was not by any means off his game. The contest was m every way worthy of a championship final, and a very large gallery of spectators showed their appreciation by cheering the victor and the vanquished. THE START. Both got well away from thb first tee, Quin playing a beautiful second past the pin, while Gogs with a pushed mashie shot was 10 yards wide of the hole, which was hqlved in four. Both drove perfectly at the second. Goss was through with his second, Quin just staying on the green. Goss was short with his approach, and Quin vrpn the hole 4 to 5. QUINN GOING WELL. Quin drove over a hunker into the rough at the next, and took three to reach . the green, his third being a beautiful approach over the mounds at the left. Goss was to the rjght with bis second, having got into the rough from the tee and took .three more. Quin holing his putt to win in 4 to 6. A drive and a cleek shot put Quin on the next green, Goss being in the rough to the right with two wooden shots. He took three more. Quin was 3 up with 4 to 5 at the fifth, and sixth was halved in perfect fours. Quin negotiating a half stymie and just missing his three at the riverbank. GOOD RECOVERY. At the seventh Goss was short with his tee shot, and had to approach with a mashie, but secured a half in three. Quin made his first mistake at the mounds. He drove a perfect tee shot, tut got right under his approach shot, just reaching .the green. He did not hit his putt, taking 5 against Goes’s 4. • . . Quin was in the rough with his .. drive at the ninth, hut had the.advantage because of it being imperative that after a good teo shot the player must bo short with his second at this hole to avoid trouble. Both reached the green in 3 and the bole was halved. TURNING FOR HOME. Turning for home, Goss took three putts on the tenth green which put him 3 down. Again at the eleventh Gqss put his second shot into a “pot,” hut Quin let him off, taking 3 putts for a half in , 6 ' A MILD FLUTTER. Both drove well for the twelfth, hut pulled their iron seconds with the wind. Goss was too strong with his approach, while Quin caused a mild flutter among the spectators by holing out with nis third, which was a perfect pitch and stop approach over a sand pot. Bogey for tins'bole is 6. Qum was how 4 up, . Neither was on the green at the Shovel, but both holed out.in 3, .approaching with putters into the wind. GOSS PLAYS PERFECTLY. The Ridge was halved in fours. Goss played the hole perfectly. Quin pulled his mashie second away to the left, but his approach was good, and his putt even better. Goss got a win at the Gully. Both drove well, and Goss put his mashie second on the green, while Quin went over and was short with his return. He took 2 more while Goss was out in 4, MAGNIFICENT IRON WORK. Into the wind again at the sixteenth both drove well but Quin played a magnificent iron second which almost on the pin and ran 20 feet past. Goes just got to the green and fay dead with his approach putt. Qum holed for hie win in 8' to 4, bogey being S. Quin was thus 4 up again . Eto badly topped his tee shot at the seventeenth, and it tpok him 3 to reach the green. Goes was on in two and, holeing out for 4 against 5, reduced Quin’s lead to 8 up. GOOD RECOVERIES. Two very bad pulls off the eighteenth put tho balls into the plantation. Against a netted wire fence Goss with his flat swing bad some difficulty in negotiating his second, hut finally cut his ball out nicely into the fairwayQuin, with his ball in the space of about three feet between a tree and the fence, found less difficulty. Using, a perfectly upright swing be played a remarkable recovering- snot 100 yards up the fairway. Both were well away from the pin after playing 4 but beled put long putts for a half in 5, leaving Quin 3 up at the finish of the morning round. y AFTERNOON ROUND. Going out in the afternoon the players halved the first in perfect fours and the soooud in s’», Goss missing two feet putt for a win. At the third Goss found a blinker at toe right with his tee shot. He tailed to get out with his second, and was short of the green with bis third. Fo* his second Qum played a nice put up into the wind with his iron and just reached toe green, his third was pin high and ho won the hole in 4 to 8, making him 4 up. QUIN INCREASES HIS LEAD. Both got nice tee shots away at the fourth and Quin’s second weiit mcely on to the fringe of the green, while Goss booked his into the rough at the left. Quin holed a three-foot putt for a win in 4 to 6 and became 5 up. At toe fifth both were on the green with their seconds. Goss laid Ins ap preach putt dead and Quin, who wgs out to tlie right, missed a five-foot trait for a half. This reduced Quin's lead to 4 up. Quin’s tee shot at too next went well along the fairway, Goss being in tho rough. Quin played another of his pitch and stop approaches, which had helped him so much during toe day and he holed a four-foot- putt for a win in 3, becoming, 5 up agaip. QUIN SIX UP. Playing at toe seventh Quin placed hia mashie lee shot 16 feet from toe pin, and Goss was short of the green and short with his approach. Quin bofed his second and was thus 6 up. At the eighth Quin sliced his toe shot out on to toe ninth fairway but tossed a niblcck shot high over too mounds on to the green. Goss with his second struck a mound and Quin took the hole in 4 to 6, making him 7 up. GOS 3 FIGHTS HARD. Quin was ahoyt with his third at the ninth, and Goss half-topped his third

with a mashie but reached the green and won the hole in 5 to fi. Quin being weak with his fourth. This reduced Quin’s ’ead to 6 up. Goss half-topped his rnashio tee shot at the tenth, finishing ten yards over the green and was too strong with his return. Quin’s tee shot hit a bank on the right of the green and rolled towards the pin. Ho just missed a two, and Goss with his putt went into the hole and out again, and Quin, winning in 3- to 4, now stood 7 up and 8 to play.. CHAMPION TEE SHOT. Quin hit the champion toe shot of the day at the eleventh. He was 60 yards ahead of Goss who pulled his into the rough. Both were on in 2 but Goss took 3 putts and the match was oveT, with Quin the victor, 8 up and 7 to play. At the conclusion of the olay prizes were presented by Mr W. B. Colbeck, president of the Auckland Golf Club, and all the speakers, including Mi- R. C. Kirk, president of the New Zealand Golf Council, warmly congratulated Quin and the winners of the other events. MEMORABLE FINAL THE NEW CHAMPION [ A NATURAE PLAYER. i (By Telegraph—Special to “Times.”) AUCKLAND, September 12 1 The New Zealand golf championship 1 just finished was a very successful me 1 from Wellington’s point of view. * Arthur DuncajLs early defeat was lery regrettable, as ft was considered in local circles that after his good showing in s the open event he had an excellent chance of winning the final. As matters turned out, however, it is hardly l likely that Duncan would have had a j chance against the young Eltharo j player, Quin, on Saturday. Ragged and nervy golf usually marks ’ the amateur final, but Quin played [ brilliantly from start to finish. The s spectators did hot trouble him in the t slightest degree, and after a brilliant round in the morning he romped home j an easy winner. CAUSED A SENSATION,* 9 Quin has frahlkly caused a sensation in local golfing circles. His win was unexpected. Had he met an opponent in the final who was right off his game, j the wiseacres would have said he had j, registered a very lucky win. As it u was, however, he met Goss when the latter was still playing -that steady, if 9 pot brilliant golf which marked his game throughout the tournament . Goss was giving no chances away, and on t the day it required a really fine player B to beat him. For this reason Quin’s victory stamps him as one of the finest g amateur players New Zealand has yet ■ r seen Whether he will continue na he t baa begun remains to be seen, t LEAVES SPECTATORS GASPING, j? There was a gallery of some hundred a and fifty spectators in the morning when Quin established a useful lead of three up. Some of Quin’s putts were e remarkable for a final contest on which t so much depended. Incidentally, ho lid things which are seldom dene in big a golf, auch as holing out a beautiful a mashie shot over a sand bunker f straight into the tin. Incidents such as these left the spectators gasping. In a -word it was great golf, and a \ ery memorable final. Quin, who is a farmer, is only 24 !' years of age, and has never had a lesson j from a professional in his life. Like (. bis brother, he is a natural golfer, v Details of Saturday’s rounds are as j follow: i QUIN (73). First Round--9 Chit; 4,4, 4,4, 4,4, 3,6, 5—37. Back: 3,6, 3, 8 4,5, 3,5, 5—36. Second Round. Out: 4, 6. 4. 4,5, 3,2, 4,6, —37 3 Back: 3, 4 (8 up). GOSS (77). 1 First Round. Out: 4,5, 5,5, 4,4, 3,4, 5—39. i Back: 4, 6. 6,3, 4,4, 4, 4,6—33. e Seoond Round, t Out: 4,5, 6,5, 4; 4,3, 5, 5—41. Back: 4, 5 (8 up). PLAY IN_AMERICA * WALKER CUP CONTEST. d “j* it UNITED STATES LEADING. 4 a Australian and NZ. Cable Association y (Received September 14, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 13. i© In the Walker .Oup golf tournament p at Garden City, Long. Island, the o United States led the British team over the first eighteen holes, winning three foursomes and tying in a fourth. Marston and Gardner defeated Story , and Murray by 1 up; Ouimei and GuilH ford defeated Tolley and Haslet by 1 i* up; Jones **nd Fownes defeated mi- “ ohael and Robert Scott by 3 up; 1 Swoetser- and Johnston tied with Torraace and Bristow.