SPORT OVERSEAS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 7

SPORT OVERSEAS

j BRITISH GOLF TITLE HOW BOBBY JONES WON L.OXDOX. Saturday. The achievement of Bobby Jones in winning the British open as well as tin amateur championship in the sam • year has not been attained since Mr John Ball’s double- victory in IS9O. The play yesterday was favoured l»\ | dull weather and no wind, and it was j full of excitement. Robson disappointed the high British hopes by sur pri singly feeble putting. He took three putts on seven greens in th* third round, missing six putts of under two feet. Compston revived the British hopes ito the highest pitch of enthusiasm | when he picked up five strokes on i Jones by a marvellous record round Jof OS. Hoylake had not seen anything ; like it He began amazingly, with 4. 1 S, 4,2, and went out in 34. in spite | of a six at the fifth hole, and continued , inspiringly in a way that was reminis- ; cent of Duncan at Sandwich in 1920. i But after a tremendous ovation a 1 the end of the third round Compston j threw everything away by his miserable last round of 82. I Jones, throughout the meeting, found | the first three holes regular stumblingi blocks He never once played them in decent figures, and his last two rounds were indifferent, which gave a chance j to his opponents to overtake him. bir | those within striking distance proved 1 unequal to the occasion^ Bobby Jones won the British opv.i championship in 1926. with a score m 291. and in 1927. at St. Andrews, with the record score of 285. Walter Hager, won the open title last year at Muirfield with 292. John Ball has won th [British amateur title eight times, in ISSS. 1890, 1892. 1894. 159.0. 1907. 1910 rind 1912. He won the open cham- | pionship also in 1910.