GOLF

Otago Witness, Issue 3713, 12 May 1925, Page 10

GOLF

BY

JACK.

The Wellington Golf Club has now a membership of 505. Mrs Dodgshun. who w T on the Otago ladies’ championship, accomplished “the hat trick” in doing so, since she held the title for the tw r o past years, while it was only last month that she had the satisfaction of winning the ladies’ championship of Canterbury. She had some luck in the first round of match play in the competition last week, for Miss Cato, of Hawke’s Bay, a distinctly pretty and accomplished player, proved such a doughty opponent as to carry her to the nineteenth green. Moreover, this match looked at this stage as if Miss Cato would it, for her fourth lay close to the hole, while Mrs Dodgshun, who had visited the rough, had not reached the green with her third. Mrs Dodgshun, however, holed out m four with her mashie approach shot and thus pulled the match out of the fire. Mrs Orbell, the runner-up for the Otago ladies’ championship, the final stages cf which were played by the eight pl-ayers with the best scores for 36 holes of stroke play, just scrambled through the qualifying rounds. She tied, in fact, with Miss IC. Bristed, of Christchurch, for eighth place, but beat the latter by two strokes in the play-off. Miss Bristed was probablv the youngest competitor in the tournament, and as she has the ability as well as youth on her side she should bo heard of in future tournaments.

Mrs M‘Carlhy, who headed the list of competitors in the qualifying rounds for. the ladies’ championship of Otago, faded away in the match plav. which does not seem to be her forte. With Miss Cato she shared the distinction of making the lowest score for any round. Her 83, which was done in the first qualifying round, woe made up as follows: Out: 5,6,3,3,5,4,5,5,4—40. In : 4,6, 4,7, 3,6, 4,4, 5-43.

Mrs M'Carthy won the putting competition on each of the first three days of th«* toom ament, and secured in addition a handsome trophy, presented by Milliner, the club maker at Balmacewen, for the best card for putting in the course of tne tournament. .. . , , A good round was accomplished by Hr Ross and Mrs J. A. Cook in the Mixed Foursomes at Balmacewen last Saturday They did the 18 holes in 78, and finished all square. 'The best cards, however,-four in number—showed the result of 2 up on bogey. The heavy rain of the night before had not affected tile course for the final match of tho ladies’ championship of Otago, the turf having a pleasant spring in it. Both competitors started off with good drives. Mrs Orbell. playing the odd, as ,he was fated to do almost all through the match, pulled her ball into the rough, and was short with her third. With the like Mrs Dodgshun placed her ball about seven feet from the pm. Mrs Orbell. over-running the hole, had to putt fro™ the edge of the green for a possible half in 5 and missed. Both players got away with two good shots to the second, but it was Mrs Orbell’s misfortune that her ball hung on the terrace below the green while Mrs Dodgshun’s was slightly to the right. Mrs Orbell wa» still short with her third, and, though Mrs Dodgshun’s approach was slightly better, both missed their putts for 4. and the hole was halved. Mrs Dodgshun drove finely from the third toe, but Mrs Orbell inclined towards the hazard, where her ball lay slightly in the rough. With an ill-judged second she struck the top of the bunker, from which her bull rebounded, and she was still short with her third and overstronp with her fourth, Mrs Dodgshun meantime ran her third up dead, and holed out in 4. At the next hole Mrs Dodgshun’s mashie shot from the tee laid the hall within nine feet of the pin. Mrs Orbell nulled her tee shot, but, recovering well, placed her second about five feet from the hole. Mrs Dodgshun all but holed out with her second, for another turn of the ball would have sent it in, and she won in 3 to 4. Both had good drives at Tho Terrace, but Mrs Orbell foiled with her second, and with her third she was short of the ground under repair at tho top of the hill. After a fair second, Mrs Dodgshun played nn indifferent. third, but she won a rather poor hole in 6 to Mrs Orbell’s possible 7. Mrs Dodgshun played a beautiful tee shot to The Ridge, but Mrs Orbell pushed hors out and then overran the hole. _ Mira Dodgshun played nicely up to within feet of the pm, and, as Mrs Orbell again over-

ran tho hole with a bold approach, the former won it in 4. Both had good drives to the seventh. Mrs Orbell, playinp the odd from slightly to tho right, with * masterly stroke laid her second several feet from the pin and halved (he hole. Mrs Dodgshun’s was the better of two fairly pood drives to the eighth. Mr* Orbell directed her second into the rough to the right of the bunker, but recovered remarkably well, and won the hole in 8, Mrs Dodgshun not maintaining her early advantage. Mrs Orbell topped her next drive —a fatal error at this hole, which Mr* Dodgshun won comfortably in 4. Hie tenth hole was well played bv both. While Mrs Dodgshun’s tee shot placed the ball close to the pin, Mrs Orbell’s was overstrong, but the latter ran her second well up to the hole, which she halved in bogey 3. Mrs Dodgshun led off to Tipperary with a beautiful drive close to the direction post. Mrs Orbell pushed her drive out, and with her second got into the rough at the foot of the hill. Mrs Dodgshun replied with a sweet stroke which left her about 160 yards from the flag. more shots to Mrs Orbell left her in the rough approaching the green, and she had to play two more l>efore she was within putting distance. Mrs Dodgshun, meantime, with a beautiful third, gave herself a chance—with a 7-foot putt—of getting a 4, but she had to content herself with a highly meritorious 5. The twelfth hole wa* halved in 4, both playing it well. Both drove well away to the direction post for the thirteenth. Mrs Orbell, playing th* odd, blundered seriously, for the ball, being hit with the toe of her club, travelled "to cover point.” With an easy third Mr* Dodgshun approached to within a few feet of the pin, and missing a putt for a possible 4, took the hole in 5, and won the match and the championship. 6 up and 5 to play. Her card for the 13 holes read as follows: Out: 8,5, 4,3, 6. 4, C, 6, 4--42. In: 3,5, 4, 5. A remarkably fine performance wa* credited to J. Harold the other day when he went round the Belmont links, Wanganui (bogey 81), in 71, and, as if to show that there was no fluke about tne did a second round on the same day m 75. It is the best training ground in New Zealand, ’ said Arthur Duncan, speaking of the Wellington municipal links at Berhampore. “You have to play every shot there. If anywhere will bring out a young player it is Derhampore.” A. D. S. Duncan defeated J. D G. Duncan easily in the final of the Wellington Club’s championship, winning 7 up ad 6, over 36 holes. John Duncan played steadily over the first 18 holes, and did well to finish all square, though A Duncan was not keeping his standards of the Easter tournament. In the afternoon A. Duncan returned a 71. A. J. Shaw, the unattached professional and coach, who is said to find a roving commission and a working address quite remunerative, recently did a wonderful round at the Ranui course, Wellington. In spite of a heavy northerly, he returned a card of 73, Knocking two strokes off his previous record oi 7& There Mere no lucky incidents in the round, which was purely good golf. Bogey for the course is 77. The course has been improved a good deal since Shaw accomplished hi* previous record, and no doubt many player* would find it easier now, but it is likely that the record will stand for more than one season as at many of the holes shots have to be correctly placed, both for distance and direction. The final of the Australasian Newspapers' Foursomes Challenge Shield played at Oakleigh was won by Alex. Russell and C. H. Fawcett, of Royal Melbourne Club. They defeated A. W. Jackson and W. B. Tunbridge, of Victoria Club, by 3 up and 2 to play. This is the fourth consecutive win of the Royal Melbourne pair. Exasperating tedionsness by the first couple, Hardman and Sturrock, who spen* five minutes studying putts at nearly every green, infuriated the remaining 160 entrants in Englands first amateur close golf championship at Hoylake. several of whom finished in the dusk. An Eton schoolmaster, Montmorency, beat a Liverpool policeman, Silcock, 4 and 3. Tolley defeated Farrar, 6 and 4, and also Hassall % and 1. With Hayward, the Air Force champion, Noel Layton, and Bernard Darwin, Tolley entered the third round. Neither Wethered nor Holderness is competing. John Ball, aged 62, eight time* winner of the amateur championship, was successful in the initial stages. Sherlock, a tramway driver, beat Walker, who is expected to assist England against America, but subsequently succumbed to an artisan, Sutton.