GOLF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18876, 31 May 1923, Page 4

GOLF

By Divot.

To phenomenal putting R. W. Crummack owed Hie fact that he defeated the Hon. Michael Scott, 2 up. in the third round of the play for the English amateur championship. On no fewer than seven greens he holed out in 1. Crummack and Scott are both on the 2 mark in the national handicaps. H. W. Kelly, captain of the Otago Golf Club, lias taken his departure this week for Melbourne upon promotion in the service of the New Zealand Insurance Company. He was one of the executive of Hie Otago Golf Club during practically the whole three years of his residence in Dunedin, and in the year before last he won the club championship. He has*been a highly esteemed member of the club, and h;s personal attachment to it, is evidenced by the fact that he proposes to retain his membership of it. A largo number of members attended a presentation to him last Saturday in tho clubhouse imd expressed to him their good wishes for his future welfare.

The Daily Telegraph’s golf correspondent, dealing with tho play in the English amateur championship contest this month, wrote: “Ouimet has been a tremendous force in the world of golf in the 1 past decade, but, except when os a boy he beat Vardon and Ray in the play off for the American championship, he never achieved a more impressive performance than when he defeated Tolley on Friday. Ouimet, despite a strong blustering wind, only twice drove off the course, displaying a cruel exactitude. Tolley, on the contrary, repeatedly drove wide. Wethered saved Britain’s face in the next round with a glorious victory. He took the lead in the first hole and never lost it. Ouimet, ordinarily a prince among putters, could not, sink them. Wethered was the steadier throughout, Ouimet being physically and mentally tired.” The match in the semi-final round of the Otago Golf Club’s championship between Dr Ross and J. R. Callender was played last midweek, too late for mention in these notes. Ross was 3 up in the first five holes, but Callender. won the next three in succession, and after this tho fortunes of the game varied with the balance slightly in favour of Ross, who won the match with 2 up and 1 to play.. The final betvyeen Dr Ross and it. B. Lambert on Saturday saw the former at the top of his form for the greater part of the match. lie did so well for the first nine holes that he was probably tempted to make an effort to create a new record for tho links in substitution for tho spore of 72 Which has long defied attack in competition play. This seems to explain why he attempted a rather wild "recovery after one or two strokes which failed to give him satisfaction, the effect of it all being that his second half was, for, him, a very ordinary performance. The seven holes in the second round that sufficed to complete tho match were played bv Rosa in masterly stylo, and for the whole 25 holes he registered a total that was equal to one under fours. Lambert’s play was patchy—excellent at times, but below form at other times —but it will serve to illustrate the severity of the task that was set him when it is mentioned that, although he was beaten by the substantial margin of 12 up and 11 to play, his score over tho whole 25 holes was, when his handicap is taken into account, 1 up on Bogey. Playing from the first tee in the final Ross led off with a fine drive well up the fairway. Lambert pulled his drive, but, playing the odd, almost reached the edge of the green with a beautiful shot. Ross was a little short of tho pin with a mid-iron approach. After Lambert had over-run the hole about twelve feet Ross laid his third dead, but Lambert secured a half with a long putt. Ross drove a very long ball to tho second but it landed in the rough ‘and to the right of tho fairway. Lambert pulled a moderate drive and in the attempt to recover himself topped hopelessly into the rough and the hole cost him 6. Meanwhile, Ross played an admirable second on to tho green and putted for a 3, but had to be content with 4. Ross reached the right-hand corner of tho third green with his drive. Lambert’s drive was not so long, and was to the left, while his odd was a little short,. Ross chipped his ball up to about throe feet of the hole, and after Lambert had missed his putt for a 3 Ross holed out At the short fourth Ross bit a straight ball to 12 feet from the pin. Lambert replied with a good drive to the left of the green but approached indifferently, and Ross, putting boldly, holed out in 2. Ross drove a beautiful ball up the fairway of the fifth, and followed this up with a mid-iron to the green, 10ft or 12ft from the pin. Lambert’s drive bad not the length of Ross’s and his second took him over the crest of the hill, to tho left of the green. He then approached to about six feet from the hole. Ross laid his third dead and holed out in 4. He reached the corner of the Ridge green with his drive. Lambert pulled his drive and with tho odd was several feet from the pin. Running his ball up Ross left himself a s£t putt, which’he safely negotiated, for a 3. He out-drove Lambert once more from the next tee, but the latter, taking a wooden club, played a fine second to about eight feet of tho pin. Ross replied with a mid-iron shot which landed him a similar distance away and the hole was halved in 4. Ross drove well over the direction post in the Monastery fairway. Lambert had also a good drive, not so straight, but his second was a beautiful long shot which finished about nine feet from the hole. Ross was also on the green with his second, and he laid his third less than a foot from the pin, but Lambert secured the hole with a bold putt. While Lambert pulled his drive to the Glen, Ross drove a long, straight ball. Lambert duffed his second and, after a handy approach, Boss holed out in 4. Rosa’s card at this stage compared as follows with Bogey: Boss: 4 4 3 2 4 3 14 4—32 Bogey: 54435454 4—33 Turning for home, Lambert and Ross both drove well to the Mount, and the hole was halved in 4, Lambert being fortunate enough to sink a down-hill putt of twelve feet. Ross had only a fair drive from the next toe, and, seemingly in an effort to make up the 40 yards or so extra which his drive should have given him, duffed his second into the rough. Lambert, in the meantime, was well down the fairway with his second. Ross’s third left him only in a lino with the Manuka green, and his fourth was short of tho Tipperary green, which he over-ran with his fifth. The hole cost him 7 strokes. Even with this, however, ho won the hole, for Lambert was trapped by the trees with his third, and his fourth, hitting a tree, tumbled into the hazard below the green, and it took him 4 strokes after this to find the hole. The latter d v c,vc into the rough from the next tee, and Ross took the hole in an average 4. Going to Manuka, Ross drove over the hill and well down to the ditch. Lambert played two good shots, but his short game was here at fault. Ross, for his part, pulled his second and was rather short with it, and a hole which he should have got in 4 fell to him in 5, Lambert taking 6. While Ross was short with his drive to Roy’s, Lambert was on the green with his. The latter missed a 10ft putt for a 2, but, holing out in 3, got one back from Ross. Both drove well from tho tee. Ross pressed with his second, for which he took his mid-iron, but did not reach the green, and he made a poor attempt with his third, a chip shot. Lambert was short with his second, and his third was to the right of the green, but his putting again served him well and he holed out in 4. Lambert drove straight down tho fairway to Hawthorn. Ross drove indifferently out to the right, and his second was short of the, green. Lambert was well down the fairway with his second, but socketed his inashie third, and it took him 4to got to the green. Rosa rolled his third down to tho pin, and holed out in 4. The Gurus was halved, without incident, in 4; and tho Homo hole also cost each player 5 strokes Seven up on the first round, Ross gave Lambert no chance in the second round, for, reeling off seven holes in 27, he speedily secured the 5 that were necessarrv to win the match, Lambert halving the third and fourth in three each. The afternoon scores were as follow: — Boss 4 4 3 3 4 4 5 Lambert 5 5 3 3 6 5 6 It was a severe defeat that Lambert sustained, but on his form for the day Ross was irresistible, and. among membefs of the Otago Club, certainly iu a class by himself Tbc following is a list of the winners of the Otago Golf Club’s championships for the last 40 y«u s: — 1883 —H. Macuoil 390 R—H. O. .Smith 1894 3. A. Somerville 1909—H. O. Smith 1895 H. Mucucil 1910—B. .T. Smith 1891!—B. Mavncil 1911—B. .1. Smith 1897 W. C. Miicgvegor tb 1898 — A. M. Howden L'L*—J?- J- Smith 1899 W. G. MacGregor HI! -I i OSR 1900— G. H, MncHwnn , I ')ls—TC. Boss 1001—M. S. Todd inis—No competition 1902 Andrew Todd 1917—N0 competition 1903 A. H. Fisher I L ll^ o ,S ompet : l , tlon 1904 — G. H. Mac Ewan 1919—0. Turnbull 1905 G. It. Mac Ewan J inns—R. H. Mac Ewan w -„ KclI 7 ■ 1007—B. .1. Smith 192.— R. G. soott Playing at Masterton last Saturday week T. H. Horton did a 71, which is a record for the course since it has been, altered. He just missed a 59.

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The best scores in the Coronation Medal 1 Match by members of the Otago Ladies' Golf Club en the Balmacewen links on Monday were: Hep. Net. Mrs Conk 00 7 B.'( Miss D. Williams ... 104 1!) 85 Mrs Barron 105 19 86 A match at Wellington last Saturday between the Hutt and Miramar Clubs was won by the former by 13£ games to The A teams were at Miramar and the B teams at Hutt, and each set of players had to contend with bad weather conditions. At the- Miramar links a high wind was experienced. This increased as the afternoon progressed, and by the time the last few holes were being played it was at times difficult to stand still. A few miles away the. iiutt links were experiencing entirely different conditions. The wind there was not sufficient to cause any inconvenience, but there was a heavy rainfall, and several of the greens carried large patches of water, and tho fairways were very heavy. The players were soon soaked. Miramar was without the services of three of its best playors. The big contest of the day in tine match between Hutt and Miramar last Saturday was that between J. L. Black, Hnlt's- "first string, and J. H. Drake, of Miramar, who recently recorded a victory against J. C. Bidwill, the Wellington provincial champion. Drake did not play the game he played against Bidwill when the conditions were worse, and was weak on the greens, which wero' by no means good. He suffered defeat by two and one. Several other players who have belonged to Dunedin clubs were engaged in the match. A. F. Roberts (Hutt), S. Scott (Hutt), and R. P. Ward (Miramar) won their games, and M. W. Horton (Hutt) lost his. in the senior teaials matches. P. White-Parsons (Miramar), ti. E. H.. Aplin (Miramar), and R. E. Westbrook (Miramar) were defeated in the B teams' matches, but R. W. Scott (Miramar) and C. G. Scolon (Miramar) wore -winners. THE POPULAR GOLF BALL. The "Why-Not" golf ball with the new trellis marking lias proved its excellence among New Zealand golfers by increasing the length of their drives. Order from your dealer or professional, or from the New Zealand agents: W. H Tisdall (Ltd.), Chjistchurch.—Advt.