N.S.W. GOLF

Southland Times, Issue 20204, 15 June 1927, Page 5

N.S.W. GOLF

SECOND ROUND OF CHAMPIONSHIP. HORTON GOES DOWN TO RUSSELL. (Rec. 10.40 0.m.) Sydney, June 14. The second round of the Amateur Golf Championship was played in showery weather. Russell and Horton had a tremendous struggle. Horton started brilliantly with two at the first, then lost the second. The third was halved. Horton won the fourth and Russell the fifth. The sixth was halved, but Russell won the long seventh with a birdie four. After the eighth had been halved. Horton squared the match with a birdie three at the ninth. Horton took three putts at the tenth, but a brilliant three at the eleventh squared the game again. The twelfth was halved and Horton took the lead, winning the thirteenth, but a great three by Russell at the fifteenth evened things again. Horton sank a thirty-foot putt for a half at the sixteenth, but missed a putt at the eighteenth and finished one down. Russell’s round was seventy-one and Horton’s seventy-two. In the afternoon Russell won the second and Horton the third. The Victorian won the fourth and fifth. The sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth were halved, though a stymie cost Horton a win at the eighth. Horton here commenced to putt badly, and lost the tenth and eleventh, and only halved the twelfth. He was then four down and six to play. He then won the thirteenth and fourteenth but Russell negotiated a stymie at the fifteenth for a half. Horton won the sixteenth but pulled his tee shot at the seventeenth. His ball moved as he was addressing it and he duffed his third and Russell won the hole and the match two up and one to play. Horton played a great game and was unlucky to strike a player like Russell at the top of his game. Smith, a youth from a nine hole course at Longreef, made the sensation of the tournament. He defeated Murdoch in the first round and in the second overwhelmed Sturrock, the conqueror of Morrison. The results were as follows: Whitton defeated Harrison 6 and 5; Apperly defeated Nigel Smith 11 and 10; Russell defeated Horton 2 and 1; Walter Smith defeated Sturrock 7 and 5.—A. and N.Z.