GOLF

Otago Witness, Issue 3743, 8 December 1925, Page 8

GOLF

BY

DIVOT.

A hole in one. “The Fancy,” the fourteenth hole at Dannevirke, has fallen to the lot of R. V. M‘Dowell. The action of Mr R. C. Kirk, president of the New Zealand Golf Council, in pointing out to A. G. Sime, of Westport, at Shirley, that he had transgressed the rules of golf in grounding his club in a bunker in the course of tne play for the amateur championship, and had by so doing lost the hole, has been unanimously upheld by the council, which expressed the opinion that, in view of the fact that Mr Kirk was,- in addition to being the New Zealand president, an elected member of the St. Andrew s committee, he would have been remiss had he not acted as he did when he observed the incident. The match between the Wellington and Christchurch clubs for the Tuson Cup was played at Heretaunga on Saturday last, and was won by Wellington by 10 games to 1, one game being halved. In the singles. E. J. Pumphrey scored a win for Christchurch defeating K. D. Duncan, and M. J. Godly finished all square with O. J. Wilson. E. M. Macfarlane, tho’ New Zealand open champion, was defeated by Arthur Duncan: and H. W. Macfarlane, L. H. Campbell, C. R. J. Ward. C. A. Quane, and L. A. Dougal were respectively beaten by J. D. G. Duncan, H. R. H. Balneavis, D. O. Whyte, J. B. Parker, and J. B. Mac Ewan. The four-ball matches were all won by Wellington. It is probably owing to the fact that neither Miss Joyce Wethered nor Miss Cecil Leitch competed that there is a new women’s champion of England this year. In the 36 holes of the final of the championship, played on the Royal North Devon links. Miss Doris Fowler, of North Hants, beat Miss Joy Winn, of Aldeburgh. Suffolk, by 9 up and 7 to play. Miss Fowler is described as being a notable type of the modern English athletic womanhood, tall and of strong physique, as anybody could wish to see. Her powerful hitting contributed a great, deal towards the crushing of Miss Winn who. smaller and slighter in build, often had to play a full wooden club shot for her second where Miss Fowler could force her way home with an iron. Mis 9 Fowler is a golfer with a complete knowledge of the science of the game and an occasional independence of ideas. For example (says the Daily Mail), instead of running her long putts up to the hole with a putter, she chips them up delicately with a jigger. And usually the ball finishes eo close to the hole that she cannot very well miss the next shot. Miss Fowler is best known as a golfer for Burnham, in Somerset, but she had her early experiences of the game at Sheringham, in Norfolk. Miss Winn had one brief burst of ecstasy in the final. She won the first, hole of the match in 5, Miss Fowler hitting two shots into the short rushes on the left and ultimately picking up her ball. That was the only time all day that Miss Winn held the leaa. Miss Fowler won tho next three holes and stood 3 up at the turn. Miss Winn held on gallantly and halved five of the next six holes. Standing four down at the 15th she cracked at the end of the round and lost three holes of it. so that Miss Fowler, with an approximate score of 81, stood 7 up at the interval. In the afternoon Miss Winn was 9 down at the turn. She won the 10th. but lost tho 11th. and that was the end.