BRILLIANT GOLF

Southland Times, Issue 20200, 10 June 1927, Page 7

BRILLIANT GOLF

KIRK-WINDEYER CUP NEW ZEALAND SECURES COVETED TROPHY DUNCAN DEFEATS’ AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Rec. 11.5 p.m.) Sydney, June 9. The final match between New Zealand and Victoria was played at Rose Bay in perfect weather, New Zealand winning by four matches to two. All the games were well contested and the standard of the golf was very high. A feature of the day was the victory of Duncan over Whitton, Open Champion of Australia. Horton and Duncan against Whitton and Russell: The Victorians won the first, but New Zealand won the next two by dint of two nice putts by Horton. The sixth and seventh were halved, but Duncan sank a great putt on the seventh for a win. The eighth was halved, but a weak second by Duncan allowed the Victorians to reduce the lead at the ninth. Weak putting by their opponents gave the New Zealanders the tenth. The eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth were halved. Whitton and Russell won the fifteenth, but lost the sixteenth. The seventeenth was halved, but New Zealand won the eighteenth, finishing four up. Quin and Ross also lost the first and won the second. They lost the third and fifth, but squared the game at the seventh and took the lead at the ninth, Quin sinking a great putt. Quin again sank a great putt at the eleventh and put New Zealand two up. The twelfth was halved, but weak putting by the Victorians allowed the New Zealanders to increase their lead. The remaining five holes were halved in par golf. THE SINGLES. Duncan won the first against Whitton, and after the next two had been halved Whitton squared the match at the fourth. Duncan then won the fifth, seventh, and eighth, and turned for home three up. Duncan became five up by winning the eleventh and twelfth, but Whitton then won the next three holes. Duncan halved the next two, but lost the last, finishing one up. Horton playing Russell found the bunker with his drive at the first and lost the hole. He mulled his iron at the second and seemed to lose confidence for a while and was three down at the turn. However he played well coming home, and was only one down at the eighteenth. Ross and Headlam had a great struggle. Headlam was two up at the fifth, but Ross then won the sixth, seventh and eighth, only to lose the ninth. Headlam was one up at the twelfth, but Ross squared again at the fourteenth. The match was square at the eighteenth but the Victorian prevailed at the twentieth. The Quin-Schlapp match was productive of the finest golf. The Victorian won the first, but Quin became one up by winning the fifth and sixth. Schlapp, however, squared the game at the seventh. The eighth and ninth were halved. Quin won the tenth, but lost the twelfth and fourteenth. He then made one of his characteristic finishes, winning the fifteenth and sixteenth and halving the last two holes to win, and give New Zealand the Kirk-Win-deyer Cup. Results were as follows: FOURSOMES. * e Duncan and Horton defeated Whitton and Russell, four up. Quin and Ross defeated Headlam and Schlapp, three up. SINGLES. Duncan beat Whitton, one up. Horton lost to Russell, one down. Ross lost to Headlam, one down at the twentieth. Quin defeated Schlapp, one up.—A. and N.Z.