GOLF £500 MATCH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 6

GOLF £SOO MATCH

NOTED PAIR WIN

FIRST EMPIRE GAME

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(Reed. Julv 28, noon.) LONDON, July 27

Cotton and Reginald Whitcombe defeated Locke and Brews, two up and one, in a 72-hole four-ball challenge golf match at Walton Heath for £SOO.

Locke and Brews had a lead of twt up at the end of 30 holes.

Challenge matches for large stakes have not been uncommon in professional golf both in England and the United States. However, the game between A. D. Loclie and S. F. Brews, of South Africa, and T. H. Cotton and R- A. Whitcombe. of Great Britain, was the first Empire challenge match to be played. The American professional, Walter Hagen, has played in a number of matches for large stakes, the most important being when he met Abe Mitchell in 1920. On that occasion the stakes were £SOO a side and Hagen, after being 4 down at the end of 30 holes, won by 2 and 1. Two years later Hagen met Archie Compston in a 72-hole challenge match for £SOO and Compston inflicted a crushing defeat on his rival, as he won by 18 up and 17 to play. That this serious reverse did not affect Hagen's supreme confidence was shown when the American won the British open championship a few weeks later.