RECORD ROUND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 8

RECORD ROUND

MIDDLEMORE SURPRISE A record was made at Middlemore on Saturday when B. H. Browne won the Stableford competition with a score of 41, and also won his match in the Captain's Prize with a net round of 64. His unlucky partner was B. H. Menzies. unlucky because he was round in 73, only a" stroke over the scratch score of the' course. Menzies had to concede his opponent eight strokes, and it was a great performance under the circumstances for him to take the match to the seventeenth. Browne was out, in 37 to his opponent's 36, and was two uii. At two of the four holes at which he had strokes, the fifth and ninth, Browne had birdies which gave Menzies no chance. Coming home the leader struck trouble, slipping two strokes at both the tenth and eleventh, and Menzies, with two fours, had squared the match. Though he got a three at the twelfth, Menzies only halved if, having to concede a stroke, and he was two down at the fifteenth (Browne having won the thirteenth in three). The end came at the seventeenth, where Browne recorded an eagle three.

A highlight of Saturday afternoon's play at n the Waioliiki golf links, Napier, was the holing in one shot, at the fourteenth hole, by E. IT. Simpson. N.S.W. FOURSOMES SYDNEY, May HO. Jim Ferrier and George Thompson won the foursomes championship of New South Wales at the Royal Sydney links, with rounds of 72 and 72, which is one under par, and a record for the event.

The same pair won the event in 1933 and 1934. They did not compete the two following years.