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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20319, 30 January 1928, Page 8

GOLF.

KIRK-WINDEYER CUP TOURNAMENT. COMPETITION WON BY DR ROSS. INTERESTING SEMI-FINAL GAMES. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 28. The semi-finals and finals in the championship tournament arranged in connection with the contest for the lurk-Wm-dever Cup were completed to-day, the championship being won by Dr Kenneth Ross (Balmacewan), who debated another South Islander, Donald Grant (Shirley), by 4 and 3. The semi-finals were able in that the two games went well bevond th e eighteenth. Dr Ross defeated \ G. Sime (Westport) at the twentysecond, and Donald Grant accounted tor the holder of the amateur title, Sloan Morpet at the twenty-third green. Conditions for golfing were excellent there being a complete absence of wind. Following the completion of the championship it was announced that Dr Ross and Donald Grant would be the other two members of the New Zealand team to meet the Australians in the contest for the Kirk-Windeyer Cup on Monday. Sloan Morpeth and T. H. Horton were selected some considerable time ago. lle the team is as follows:—Sloan Moipeth, Dr Ross. T. H. Horton, and Donald Grant. W. R. Dobson (Concord), who is first emergency for the Australian team, will replace Dr Sydney Jones m the team to meet New Zealand, ROSS v. SIME. By far the best golf seen in the semifinals was that played by the two South Inlanders, Dr Kenneth Ross (Balmacewan) and A. G. Sime (Westport), the game going to the twenty-second green before a decision was reached. From start to finisn these two provided a , struggle, and at no time during the match were the players separated by more than two holes. At the short sixth Ross holed out for a beautifully-played two to Ins opponent’s three. Ross turned two up. Sime recovered a hole at the fourteenth leaving him one down. Sime played two fine gallery shots at the fifteenth. H s tee snot landed in the rough pf the hillside, obscuring the green ffom view. MUh his mashie he played to within Bft ot the pin, and with his next stroke sank an np-hiU P utt t° with a three. Sime won the seventeenth in three, and squared t game. Well-played fours halved .the eighteenth and the nineteenth Sime just lipping the hole for a three at the latter. The twentieth and twenty-fii»t were halved for four and five respectively. The end came i n the twenty-second, where Dr Ross took the hole in thiee to four to win the hole, and with it the match—one up. It was at this hole that Sime pushed his iron shot into a bunker, and experienced difficulty in getting out owing to the ball landing behind a stone, the nl >, the bunker. Ross overran the hole with his second, but more than redeemed him self by sinking a 9ft putt, thus winning the match. MORPETH AND GRANT. The game between Morpeth and Grant was rougn in the earlier stages, neithei player being able to take lull advantage of the other’s mistakes. Morpeth saim a 20-footer for a 2 at the fourth, equaling the game. The seventh was exciting From a good drive Grant took a spoon to a shot which he could well have played with his iron, and duffed it. Mor pelll’s second, as on the preceding day, was pushed out to the right and -rushed in the bunker, while his third was short. Grant’s third was too strong. Morpeth s fourth overran the hole and Grant s approach stymied him, Morpeth s ball stnkina Grant's. The hole was halved m six. Both were off the line to tne leli at the eighth, which was halved m four. Both got good drives at the ninth, but Morpeth was bunkered and short of the | green with his second. His third overran the green, and Grant took the hole in sto 6. Grant played a spoon shot out to the right at the tenth, and Morpeth took 'he hole in 5 to 6, Grant having fluffed his mashie shot. With the game square again, the golf of both players improved, but at the eleventh Morpeth missed a 2ft putt and stymied Grant, ■who knocked in his opponent’s ball tor a 4. Grant was through the green witn his tee shot at the twelfth, which Morpeth looX in a perfect 3, making him 2 up. Both were short with their seconds at the thirteenth. Grant played a tine approach putt, out Morpeth overran the hole, stymieing himself. He mashied a lovely Bft shot, which stopped three inches from the hole. Grant’s putt was decidedly unlucky, the ball disappearing in the hole only to climb lazily out and recline on the edge. The hole was halved in 5. The fourteenth was halved m 3, and the fifteenth in 4. Morpeth missed a long putt for a 3 at the sixteenth, which was halv d in 4 Morpeth dormie 2. It looked like Morpeth S game, but Grant hit a very line drive. Morpeth’s second, a driving iron, finished to the right of the green in the bunker. Grant’s second, a push shot with his iron, never deviated from the line of the pin and finished a yard away from it. Morpeth, trying for a three, hit the pin with his third, while Grant sunk bis putt for a s—Morpeth 1 up. Morpeth was in trouble from his second shot at the eighteenth, which Grant took n 5, after Morpeth, in trying to sink a 10 yards putt, had struck his ball, which was near the line. As the game moved on to the nineteenth the excitement beacme intense. Morpeth duffed his second, but his third was within a few feet of the pin. Grant, whose second was nicely on the green, was robbed of a win by Morpeth sinking his putt for a half in 4. Grant was a trifle off the line at the twentieth, but halved by means of a magnificent chip shot. Grant was in the bunker at the next, but got well out, and Morpeth missed a 7ft putt for a 4; the hole was halved in 5. The next was halved in 3, and the end came at the twenty-third, where Grant had a raking drive, while Morpeth’s besetting sin of occasional want of direction led him to slice into the rough, Grant holing in three to win, 1 up. THE FINAL. In the final Grant and Rose botli got good drives at the first, but Grant got the bunker with his second, while Ross was just short. Ross missed a putt for a win v and the hole was halved in five. With their seconds both players were on the second green and halved the hole in four. Ross was in the rough at the side of the fairway with is tee shot at the third. 'Grant got away a splendid drive, and was well on in two. By missing a sft putt Grant lost a chance of keeping the game square, Ross winning in 4to 5. Both missed short putts at the fourth, which was halved in four. Ross played a nice second on to the green, while Grant was in the rough with his tee shot, and in the bunker beside (lie green with his second. Ross won the hole in four, making him I up. They were both on the green from the tee at the short sixth, and sound •’hrees halved the hole. They were abreast down the fairway at the seventh, while a beau-tifully-played second saw Grant on ibe green. From the edge of the green Ross reached within an inch of the tin with Hs third. Grant stymied himself with his third. With his fourth he endeavoured to pitch over the intervening ball, but his ball hit the lip of the tin and bounc’d off again, thus losing the chance of a win for four. The hole was halved in five. The eighth saw Grant first in the rough and then in a bunker, Ross being on for two. Ross won the hole in four, Ross won the ninth in four and turned three up going out in 38 to his opponent’s 42. Grant won his first hole at the Ic.-nh. Both ivere on opposite ends of the preen for two. Grant approached dead, and won in four, Rqps missing a short putt tor four. At the eleventh Ross was at the edge of the green in two. Grant approached to within sft of the Din with his

second stroke, but as he overran his putt, Ross won in 4to 5. Grant was in the rough at the side of the green with his tec shot at the twelfth, but Ross missed a short putt for a win, and fours halved the hole. Ross found the bunker from the tee at the thirteenth, and with his approach was in the rough. Grant also wem through the green and into the rough beyond with his second stroke. Grant sank a 4ft putt and took a hole from his opponent, who went to the fourteenth two up. Ross chipped out of the rough with his second to land about 3ft from the pin at the fourteenth, sinking with his next stroke, and he was again three up. Going to the fifteenth, which is a blind hole, both got good drives. With his second Grant" hit the stick standing in the hole, and this reduced the momentum of the ball, and saved it from going into the rough beyond the green. Ross stymied Grant, who putted into the hole for a half in [ours. The end came ax. the sixteenth. Here Ross sank in four to his opponent’s five, and with the hole won the tournament championship, 4 and 2. [The details of the scoring would make it appear that Ross was 6 up.]