WOMEN’S GOLF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22296, 23 June 1934, Page 22

WOMEN’S GOLF

BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP A brief account of the first round of the British Championship in which three New Zealand players took part appears iu the Daily Mail. “British golfers (writes F. J. C. Pignon) have another strong challenge from overseas to resist. This was proved yesterday on the Koyal Porthcawl links, when Mrs C. N. Jacobsen, a petite blonde young golfer from New Zealand, one of the six visitors' who qualified for the match play stages of the British Women’s Championship, beat the British favourite. Miss Molly Gourlay, in the first round. “ The surprise was all the greater because Mrs Jacobsen, _ who came to this country .on holiday with her husband and baby daughter a few months ago, had no > serious pretensions to the championship title. She had given up golf for four years, and only resumed playing last winter. She has a handicap of 10, Having entered, however, she took the championship seriously, and for weeks has been at Porthcawl, practising with the local professional. "Mrs Jacobsen had the better of some indifferent golf. In a strong wind which ihade the game difficult. Miss Gourlay played more bad shots in one round than she usually plays in a week. How far she was below the standard which she reached to lead the field in the qualifying competition can be gathered from the fact that she took 89 strokes for the round and was beaten by one hole. “ Miss Gourlay’s driving was very poor, yet even though she took 43 for the first nine holes she was all square. At the thirteenth, where she was in two, bunkers, Miss Gourlay was 2 down. She had to hole a difficult putt at the sixteenth to keep the match alive, and haled cut from more than two yards to win the seventeenth, but she could do no better than halve the last hole to bo narrowly defeated. “Another British international player, Mrs Percy Garon, was also beaten by a New Zealand golfer. Miss Bessie Gaisford, on the last green, and in this game it was a sorry story of missed opportunities. “ Mrs Garon played indifferently to be 2 down at the ninth, threw away a fine chance when she took three putts at the fifteenth, and came to the home hole all square. Here she pushed her second shot into the rough, sent her pitch over the green, and lost the hole and match. “ The only casualty among the overseas players was Miss Oliver Kay, the reigning champion of New Zealand and Australia, and the strongest of the visiting challengers. She failed to live up to her reputation against Mrs Andrew Holm (Troon), a former Scottish champion. “ Mrs Holm controlled her shots splendidly in a wind that blew Miss Kay out of the championship, and also putted well, getting down with a single putt on five greens. “ When Mrs Holm, reached the turn in 37 and five holes up. Miss Kay had no chance, and the sturdy New Zealander was beaten at the thirteenth hole. “ America’s - representative, Miss Grace Amory, distinguished herself by defeating Miss Janet Jackson, a player who has won the Irish championship six times. Miss Amory, who not much more than a year ago was playing in the Girls’ Championship, won the match by superb putting and approaching. r> She had one putt on six greens, and since Miss Jackson was erratic with her iron shots the match ended at the thirteenth hole.

“ Mile Aline de Gunzbourg, of Paris, did not play very well for nine holes, but she won five of the next six. “ Miss Diana Fishwick, the only former winner of the British title now remaining, played with perfect control and had no difficulty in winning, while Miss Wanda Morgan, a former English champion, produced brilliant golf for her success. “ Miss Pentony, the Irish champion, also remains, but Miss Jcstyn Jeffreys, the Welsh champion, was beaten. - ’