GOLF IN ENGLAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19802, 29 May 1926, Page 11

GOLF IN ENGLAND

THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. “LAST EIGHT’’ REACHED. (Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 27. In the fourth round Brownlow beat Grant Peacock (America), 2 up; Watts Gunn beat Seymournoon, 5 and 3; M'Master beat Brower (America), 2 up; the Hon. Michael Scott beat Vagliano (France), 5 and 4; Robert Scott beat Harry Sinclair (Australia) 2 and 1; Cave beat Neel Layton, 2 and 1 ; Sweetzer beat M'Cormack, 4 and 3; Bobby Jones beat Birnie, V and 6 ; Orme Bristow beat J. Guildford, 1 up; Harris beat Pugh, 4 and 5; Gillies heat J. Beck, 1 up. In the fifth round Brownlow heat Watts Gun, 3 and 2; Robert Scott beat Michael Scott, 2 and 1; Sweetzer beat Allan Cave. 2 and 1 : Jamieson beat Bristow. 3 and 2; Jones beat Harris, 8 and 6, Simpson beat Gillies, 5 and 3. The eight still remaining are Killey, Simpson, Robert Scott, Jamieson, Brownlow, and the Americans, Jones and Sweetzer.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

ROBERT SCOTT DEFEATS SINCLAIR. LONDON, May 27. (Received May 28, at 5.5 p.m.) Robert Scott found Sinclair in the poorest formj listless and never on the fairway in the first. Sinclair won the second through his opponent getting into a bunker twice. The next two holes were halved, Sinclair bunkering and Scott landing three putts short in the fourth. Scott topped his second shot and lost the fifth, while Sinclair got into a bunker at the sixth. He barely got out and lost the lead. He halved the seventh and won the eighth, ninth and tenth, Scott putting badly. Sinclair was then three up hut after this he collapsed in his dhort approaches. Sinclair lost the next four holes, twice taking three putts. His pulling of his tee shot into the rough-, was responsible for the loss of the sixteenth. Thus he lost five holes in succession, but he halved the seventheenth. The winner played for Britain against America in 1924, but his game to-day was not convincing. Sinclair threw away a good chance of reaching the semi-finals. —A. and N.Z. Cable.