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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 4

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By Divot. FIXTURES FOR SATURDAY St. Clair Club.—Fourball Bogey Handicap. Macandrew Bay.—Men’s Fourball Bogey Handicap. OTAGO NOTES Favourable weather conditions prevailed during the week-end and some good cards were returned in the Bogey Match held at Balmacewen links. N. H. North had easily the best score of the day and he won the junior section with a margin of four holes. North, who played on a limit handicap, finished with the excellent score of 5 up, the runner-up being A. E. M'Dougall with 1 up. The senior event was won by E. G. Boddy with a card of 1 up. BELLEKNOWES CLUB R. Penman and Mrs Scott combined to distinct advantage to win the Belleknowes Club’s Mixed Foursome Handicap held on Saturday. Their card was 77 —21 —56, and the runners-up were E. Olsen and Miss M. M'Leod. MACANDREW BAY CLUB' On Saturday a Medal. Match was played at Macandrew Bay. The winner, A. Stewart, returned a net 39 for the nine holes and finished with a margin of 3 clear strokes better than Churchill and Hellyer, who tied for the position of runners-up. In conjunction with this match another match was held concurrently in , which secret partners were drawn, the winners being Stewart and Blomfield. ST. CLAIR LADIES On Tuesday the weather cleared up in the afternoon and the St. Clair Ladies’ Club’s annual Teams’ Match, captain versus deputy-captain, was played in good conditions. The captain’s team won by the narrow margin of one match, the result being captain (Mrs Paterson), 8 games; deputy-captain (Mrs Gilbert), 7 games. Miss 0. Kay is returning to Dunedin to-day and her fellow members of the St. Clair Club have arranged an afternoon reception in her honour on Monday, when fourball matches will be played. Next Tuesday an L.G.U. Competition will be played in conjunction with the first round of the series for the trophy presented by Lady Sidey.

ST. CLAIR v. INVERCARGILL

A team of 24 players of the St. Clair team visited Invercargill last week-end to play a match against the local players at Otatara. The result of the match was a decisive win for Invercargill by nine games to four in the Fourballs and 17 games to 7 in the Singles. The visitors were greatly impressed by the links at Otatara. Mr T. H. Horton, the well-known Masterton amateur, one of the best golfers in the Dominion, an ex-New Zealand champion, who was visiting Invercargill last week-end, said that he was amazed to find in Invercargill the best course in New Zealand. He -.was not prompted to make such a stateinent by any desire to be , polite to his hosts. It was his contention that if the Otatara links were situated in Christchurch or Wellington the Dominion championships and all important matches would be played on them. Chief interest in the Singles matches centred in the .top match between C. B. Wight and C. A. Masters. _ This wag a very interesting match, : with a sensational finish. Wight started to exert pressure from the beginning by holing a long putt for a 4, and Masters accepted the challenge by holing a shorter one to halve. Masters then holed a 15foot putt to win the second in 3. Masters went out in 38 to Wight’s 39, and was 1 up. Wight squared at the tenth, but Masters won the next two holes in 3’s, and after halving the thirteenth won the fourteenth with another 3, and was 3 up with 4to play. Masters took three putts at Dunn’s road, enabling Wight to win back a hole with a 4. Both players took three putts at the Nest to halve in 5, Masters again failed at Longwoods, and Wight won in 4. The pressure was now on, and Wight needed a win at the eighteenth to square. Wight hooked his drive, and Masters hit a perfect drive and needed only a niblick to the green. But Wight was not beaten yet, and he played a great iron shot to within 12 feet from the pm. Masters pitched to within 20 feet and putted to within 20 inches.;. Wight then made a valiant attempt to hole_ his putt, but stopped two inches away, incidentally laying Masters a perfect stymie. However, Masters, using a niblick, chipped the dial! into the hole and claimed the match, 1 IIP D. C. Bennie had a fine 74 during the week-end, and in the match defeated M. O’Dowda by 6 and 5. ■ The visitors were very hospitably entertained during their stay, and the local golfers went out' of their way to make their impressions of Invercargill enjoyable. The club entertained the visitors to a dinner, and Mr A. E. Smith, the president of the Invercargill Club, also entertained the visitors m lavish style

BRITISH OPEN 1933 The second round of the British Open was mainly notable for Mitchell’s bold bid for the leadership. With a great round of 68, he caught four strokes on Hagen to be only two strokes behind. The American players viewed Mitchell s advance with concern, if not a good deal of alarm. Mitchell has been much'more consistent this season than for many years, and it looked as if he was going to justify the host of admirers who claim him to be the “uncrowned king of golf. . Mitchell, who had never in all his career hit the ball cleaner and with greater power and played with so much courage, stood on the last green needing a 4 to finish an amazing 67. He hit a characteristic bang down the fairway and was within easy reach of the green. He took a No. 6 mashie and pulled the shot well out to the left not far from the steps leading to the clubhouse. From here he pitched on to the green and holed out in 5 to finish in 68. Hagen had a round in which the putts refused to drop. He started off with a string of 4*B any one of which could have been a 3 with the aid of a little luck. Six-foot putts sidled up to the hole, looked in. but refused to drop, and this was the story for the whole round. That Hagen was still attaining par figures speaks very eloquently for the perfection of the shots from tee to green. Dudley had a 71, and with an aggregate of 141 was only one stroke behind Hagen at the end of the second round.

AMERICAN AMATEUR George Dunlop, who defeated Max Marston in the final of the American Amateur Championship, had already gained a reputation which put him in the torefront of American golfers. He entered for the British Amateur, and made a bold bid for the championship, being beaten by Scott, the British veteran, who won the title for 1933, He also took part in the British Open, and in the first qualifying round headed the list of those playing on the, new course with a 71. In the championship proper he finished with an aggregate of 306, being in fourth position as far as amateurs are concerned. Those amateurs who were higher were Tolley 298, J. M'Lean 298, and Ross Somerville (Canada) S'o4. FRENCH TITLE For the second year in succession the final of the French Ladies’ Championship was fought out between two British players, when Miss Garnham, of The Naze, defeated Miss Pauline Doran, of North Dulwich, the English girl champion for the last three years, in the S6-hole final by 4 and 3. Miss Garnham was 3 up at the end of the morning • round, and, although Miss Doran played good golf through the greens, her putting was weak, so that she lost opportunities of regaining lost ground. The finalists for 1932 were Miss Diana Fishwick and Miss Molly Gourley, Miss Fishwick being the winner.