GOLF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19615, 20 October 1925, Page 10

GOLF.

LADIES’ CHAMPIONSHIP,

PLAY IN THIRL ROUND

(From Our Own Correspondent,' WELLINGTON, October 19,

A perfect spring day, with a fast-drying course, and an improvement in the already excellent greens, made splendid conditions for the third round of the Ladies’ Golf Championships to-day, but the scoring was not of a high order in any of tiro matches. Mrs Cromb, a Miramar member, while playing in the L. G. W. bowl competition did the short “Potiki” hole (106 yards) in one.

Miss Withers (Geraldine) had the better of her game with Miss Petrie (Johnsonville) all the way through, though Miss Petrie would have given her a better match had she been able to putt. Miss Withers was steadiness itself in every department of the game, aud made only two lapses. Miss Petrie was 3 down at the eighth, having played badly after the first hole. Miss Withers was short with her tee shot at the ninth, which landed in the rushes, and failing to get out in two strokes, she gave up the hole. The tenth was halved. Miss Petrie took the eleventh (353 yards) in a perfect 4. Miss Withers found the bunker with her second, played across the green with her third, and gave up the hole. At the thirteenth Miss Withers took a fine 3 with a 16ft putt, halved the next in 4, and won the fifteenth in 4-5. The sixteenth went to Miss Petrie in a perfect 4, and the seventeenth also to the same player in 6. Miss Withers’s tee shot found a bunker full of water ct the last hole, and the penalty spoilt her chance of pulling up. In the afternoon Miss Petri© did a fine 2 at the 152 yards twelfth. Miss V. Upham, a 20-year-old golfer, with no nerves, a fine, free swing, And a tremendous hitter for her slight weight, gave Miss Muriel Payton quite a close contest, and should really have won had her putting been at all reliable. Miss Payton was not getting her usual length from the tee, nor was she at all sure of direction, and found trouble all through the course. Time and again Miss Payton made up for erratic shots by deadly work with her mashie and putter. She sank two putts of over 20ft, and her approaching was remarkably good. Miss Upham, whose timid putting had her several holes down in the early stages of the game, squared the match at the seventh. Both were on the green in 3, but Miss Upham sank a 15ft putt over a ridge for an excellent 4, at a bogey 5 hole. Miss Upham’s long brassio at the eighth landed just in tli© hunker guarding the green, Miss Payton taking the hole in 4 (one up). At several halved holes Miss Upham had short putts for a win, but missed them. Better golf marked the end of the game, the sixteenth being taken by Miss Payton in 3-4. Miss Upham took the next, but Miss Payton won 2 up on the last green. Miss L. Quin (Eltham), sister of last year’s amateur champion, was signally defeated by Mrs J. A. Cook (Dunedin), whose long game was as good as her opponent s, and who was steadier on the greens. Miss Jervis, a young Hutt golfer, who recently did a ladies’ record for her own course, had the better all through of her game with Miss S. Payton, who put Mrs G. Williams, out in the first round. Miss Jervis did a bogey round out in the medal play in the afternoon, but crashed on the trip back. . Miss K. Britsed (Christchurch) met her match early in her game with Mrs Dodgshun (Otago), owing to poor work on the greens as well as the lack of the finish dispensed by her experienced opponent, who looks like fighting out the finish with Miss Withers and Miss Chrystall. Mrs Orbell was not sure of her wooden shots, though accurate with her irons, and she was a little short in quite a number of approaches. Miss Chrystall had trouble on the greens, but played fine crisp golf otherwise. Miss Culling (Auckland) was nil-square with Miss Acheson at the eighth, but was one up at the ninth after a hole-and-hole journey out. Miss Culling nearly got 2 at the 209 yards fourth, while the difficult 387 yard seventh was halved in 4. Miss Culling was 1 up at the turn. The tenth was halved, and Miss Acheson won the next, the rest of the holes being halved. Miss Upton had a close tussle with Miss Theomin, with little to choose at any stage of the game, and won 1 up. The following are the results of the third round of the Ladies’ Golf Championship:— Miss Upton beat Miss Theomin, 1 up. Mrs J. A. Cook beat Miss Quin, 5 and 3.: Miss Withers beat Miss Petrie, 2 up.-' Miss Payton beat Miss V. Upham. 2 up. Miss Jervis heat Miss S. Payton, 5 and 3 Mrs Dodgshun beat Miss K. Bnsted, 5 Miss Chrystall beat Mrs Orbell, 3 and 1. Miss Culling beat Miss Acheson, 2 up. LADIES’ GOLF UNION. ANNUAL MEETING. (Per United Preps Association.) WELLINGTON. October 19. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union was held to-night, Mrs Melsopp presiding. Miss Muriel Payton was electee! secretary and Mrs Melsopp president, for the ensuing year. A vote of thanks was passed to the retiring secretary, Miss Gamhrill. It was decided to hold tne next championship at Dunedin and the coronation matches during the last week of May Mrs Russell Grace proposed the holding of an extra championship in the North Island early in the season. The meeting was concluded with a vote of thanks to the president.

maungakiekie championship. (pEi United Pbess Association.! AUCKLAND, October 19. I„ the final of the Maungakiekie Golf Club Championship, W. L. Robinson boat E. L. Bartlett, 7 and 5.