GOLF

Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 49

GOLF

BOY CHAMPIONS MEET AGAIN ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE. SYDNEY, August 25. Ferrier and Williams, the 16-ycar-old golf champions, had another great battle in the teams’ match between New South Wales and Victoria at the championship golf carnival to-day. With his Victorian opponent dormie two, Ferrier fought magnificently over the last two holes" to carry the game to the nineteenth, where the Victorian (Williams) won. The Victorian teams won four matches to three. The amateur foursomes title of Australia was won by R. H. Bettington and G. Fawcett, with 149. Ferrier and Apperlcy were runners up with 150, and then came Whitton and Nettlefold with 153. Victoria also won six matches to one against Queensland. AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP. SYDNEY, August 29. Ivo Whitton, for the fifth time, has become open golf champion of Australia after a stirring final. He finished with a score of 301, and was followed by the youthful stars, Jim Ferrier, of ’New South Wales, with 302, and Harry Williams, the Victorian champion, with 303. Then came Sloan Morpeth (Victoria) 304, Fawcett (New South Wales) 305, Dobson (New South Wales) 306, Eyre (New South Wales) 306, Petters (New South Wales) 307, Bolger (New South Wales) 307, and Howard (New South Wales) 307. Play throughout was of the highest standard, notwithstanding a high wind. Whitton’s game in the final round wag superb, enabling him to retrieve what looked a doubtful position at the end of the third round. When beginning in the morning he was five strokes behind the leader, Clark, and the erowd neglected him for the younger players, who were shining. The Victorian amateur thus did the final 48 holes with a small following, who, however, were rewarded, with sparkling golf. Ferrier had the match in his grasp, but strangely bunkered at the fourteenth in the afternoon when the green was well open. At the last hole he was still able to tie with Whitton with 5, but he had bad drives in his second and third, and then made a brilliant recovery, but a putt went in and out and drew a sympathetic gasp from the silent gallery. Williams started with a slice into a bunker, and qver-anxiousness later cost him strokes and the chance of the title. Sloan Morpeth played strongly. A surprise was the failure of Hattersley (the amateur totle holder), who crashed with 85. IRISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY LANCASHIRE PLAYER. DUBLIN, August 27. The Irish Open Golf Championship was won by W. H. Kenyon, of Lancashire, with a score of 291. The other competitors included Abe Mitchell and E. R. Whitcombe (293), Compston (297), Duncan and R. Whitcombe (300).