Golf MIRAMAR HOLIDAY CARNIVAL

NZ Truth, Issue 1102, 13 January 1927, Page 12

Golf MIRAMAR HOLIDAY CARNIVAL

Good Entry, Good Weather, Good Golf (By "NjZ. Truth's" Special' Golf Writer). 11A most enjoyable tournament" about sums up the opinion of those who visited the Miramar (Wellington) links over the New Year holidays. ' %. CAVORABUS weather conditions pre- too happy son the greens, and but for vailed, and th« course was m good the fact that the Wanganui player also .order. • ■>.-.'■'.'■' missed 'em at a number of holes, there The entries were splendid, the scor- might hay« been a different story to ing good, and the results proved that tell. the. local; players .can more than-hold However, he completely recovered their own. '/ m the afternoon, and as a result had ThY most prominent visitors in'clud- no difficulty m disposing of Petley, ed J. M. Hussey, of Wariganui, Rana Petley, by the way, was second man Wagg and J". L. Black (Hutt) and H. to qualify, and although he started off J. Shanks, of the Morriington Club, m great style, Wagg romped home to The leading Miramar representatives the tune of 6 up and 4. , were J. L. Petley md L.. D. Hurst. ...... Wagg played like a champion. . ■ The outstanding event was the His play through the fairways Open Championship, and the play- was consistently straight,'and was ers above-named occupied the followed up by accurate work sveen positions on the qualifying round the greens. He always had the advantage on Wagg was playing at the top of his the greens, his putting being brilliant form, and after heading the qualify- at times. ,Petley was not playing up list with 78, 80, 156, took first and sec- to the same form displayed m his ond rounds by.'. comfortable margins, battle with ;J. L. Black, but even so it his victims being G. P. Roberts, whom would have taken him all his time to he defeated G up and 4, and H. J; hold Wagg. , Shanks 7 up and 6. \ Besides the , open championship, His battle with J.M. Hussey m the stroke, group and bogey handicaps semi-final'pro-vided the best match of were played, and some hard struggles the meeting. They both found trouble, for supremacy, were witnessed. Wagg was 2 up .is they drove oft •'•''• the 13th, but Hussey won the - next two holes, and after halving the amqwpr td rnRRPQPnwnPwr 15th, found the ditch at the next and ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT, took two to get out. » ■ - . — ——. sWa^^got the again an^ the. «r.K.» (Petone): Undoubtedly you game finished on the 17th green, Wagg have good ffrounds for your remarks winning by 2. and 1. : . and the matter will be dealt with m • Wagg was playing well, but was not next week's issue. ■•..• il!lllllllllil]||)ll|[l!lll!ll!!ll!lllllii!l!illlil!!lllllllllll!llll!llll!llffl