VISITING GOLFERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26906, 19 October 1948, Page 3

VISITING GOLFERS

LICENSED VICTUALLERS’ TOURNAMENT

OPENING DAY’S PLAY

The St. Clair links were in fine condition and the weather was favourable for the first day of the South Island Licensed Victuallers’ Golf Association’s annual tournament yesterday. It is the fourteenth tournament to be held and the first to take place in Dunedin for many years. Golfers from places as far apart as Hokitika and Southland are competing and about 70 entries have been received. Various time-honoured trophies bearing the names, perhaps, not usually associated with tne game of golf are at stake and there is an interest for f offers of all -grades. Yesterday the rst two rounds qf the retailers’, wholesalers’ and visitors’ championships were held and the third round will be played this morning. A Fourball will be held this afternoon and there are also a number of subsidiary competitions. The standard scratch score of the course was equalled by C. J. Cormack. of .Christchurch, yesterday morning when he returned a fine card of 73 in the retailers’ championship section. Perhaps not such a good round, but one which no doubt gave him equal enjoyment, was a card of M 9 returned by a competitor on a handicap of 24. The lowest handicapper competing in the tournament is A. Sime, the Balmacewen veteran, who is on the two mark, while A. Taylor, of Auckland is another well-known competitor. The arrangements for the tournament are in the hands of a committee led by Mr A. B. Watt, of Dunedin. Yesterday’s results:— Retailers’ Championship.—Morning round: E. W. Bolwell (Waimate) 69 net, G. H. Humphries (Christchurch) 69, C. D. Varnham 74. Afternoon: L. Jamieson (Christchurch) 72, C. Shea (Timaru) 74. Wholesalers’ Championship.—Morning: B. C. Abernethy (Dunedin) 75, F. E. Hunt 75, E. G. Monk 76. Afternoon: E. G. Monk 78, W. J. Kortegast (Christchurch) 80, B. C. Abernethy 80 Visitors’ Championship. —Morning: H. G. Wooding (Dunedin) 72, P Kennedy (Christchurch) 73, L. Rhodes (Christchurch) 73. Afternoon: P Kennedy 71, W. E. Hodge (Dunedin) 72. To-day’s Draw Following is the draw and the starting times for to-day.—First tee: — 8.30 a.m.: L. T. McCormack, H. Shea. G. Forbes. 8.35: E. Tilbury, E McDonald, Wright. 8.40: E. W. Bolwell, Varnham R. Simpson. 8.45: A, J. Deyell, Harris, Conlan. 8.50: Cormack, Hunt, Risley. 8.55: Jamieson, Lawrence, Jeavons. 9.Q: C. Shea, Kortegast, Dickie. 9.5: Stevenson, Abernethy, Hall. 9.10: Crate, Healey, Dixon. 9.15: Sime, Humphries, T. Roff. 9.20: Muir, Breen, Rose. 9.25: Schroder Muirhouse, Meek. 9.30' Cooper, Coxhead, Sydney. Tenth tee.— 8.40: Smith, Monk, MacMinaman. 8.45: Ihle, Tait, Kennedy. 8.50: Mason, H. S. Ross, A. Taylor. 8.55: Tubman, Gorton, Thrower. 9.0: Hodge, Cookson, Luff.—Advt.