GOLF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 7

GOLF

BRITONS PLAY WELL MATCHES AT AUp|£LAND (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Member* of., tne British golf-team played the second matches of their New Zealand tour at Middlemore links yesterday against an. Auckland team. The Britons won four matches and Auckland one, the other being all square. , Results were as follow :--Scott and Garnett (Britain) and F. Mac Ewan and Menzies, all square; McLean and Bourn (Britain) beat Coltman and George, 1 up; Scott beat MacKwan, 2 iip; McLean beat Men/.ies, 4 and 3; George beat Bourn, 2 and ]; Garnett beat Coltniaii, 7 and 6. . . ,',

.Very hot dimmer conditions prevailed and the fairways and greens were fast. Thb puce of the- greens obviously puzzled the visitors in the morning, they being unable to stop the bull under the hard conditions. Nevertheless, they played impressive golf. Garnett returned' the best card in the fourball, doing the round in approximately 72, against the scratch score for the course of 73. In the singles in the afternoon, he was one under fours when the match ended at the twelfth. Jfor a'player who had never seen the course previously this .represented brilliant, golf. In the four-bail matches, Mac Ewan, Coltman artel McLean all actually holed out in 74, Bourn being one more next to Garnett. In the singles, McLean returned a- card of one over fours to the fifteenth, where the match (fhded.