SAM McCREADY WINS BRITAIN’S AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27093, 30 May 1949, Page 5

SAM McCREADY WINS BRITAIN’S AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, May 28. Sam McCready beat the American, Willie Turnesa, two and one, in the final of the British Amateur golf championship at Port Marnoch to-day. McCready played a faultless first nine holes. He was only once off the fairway and took 35 strokes. Turnesa was rarely on the fairway, but repeatedly recovered with magnificent putts. He took 38. McCready was 4 up at the eighteenth in 70 strokes —two better than par. Turnesa was round in 74. McCready, who was astonishingly accurate, was off the fairway only three times in the first round, when glorious recovery shots got him out of trouble. Turnesa usually got down to one from anywhere up to 14 yards from the pin. The players were all square at the twenty-seventh. From then on the weather conditions, which were excellent at the start, deteriorated and the wind commenced to blow at gale force. McCready missed a one-yard putt on the twenty-ninth green to go down for the first time in the match. McCreadv levelled at the thirty-first, but Turnesa went ahead again after a 12-yard putt from the back of the thirty-second green for a birdie 3. With a grand pitch shot, McCready squared at the next hole, and became 1 up after a magnificent, putt on the thirty-fourth green. Turnesa bunkered his final drive at the thirty-fifth. McCready hit a beautiful shot straight down the middle of the fairway and clinched the victory with a perfect pitch shot.