GOLF FINAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1921, Page 5

GOLF FINAL.

MITCHELL BEATS KIRKWOOD) THE MATCH DESCRIBED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright Revived June 13, 1.15 a.m. London, June 11. The golf final between Kirkwood and Mitchell at Gleneagles was played in fine weather and a high wind before a crowd of ten thousand. Mitchell played wonderful golf throughout and was four up after the first round. The scores are: Mitchell 70, Kirkwood 74. Mitchell won 7 up and 6. Mitchell opened brilliantly and won the first in three, Kirkwood pulling into the rough and finding a bunker near the green. The next four holes were halved in four, five, five, three. Kirkwood brilliantly won the sixth (455 yards) in three, but drove badly at the seventh, where he had to have a direction post moved in order to play Irfft second. Mitchell stymied him. Kirkwood lost the eighth hole owing to a short second shot. Mitchell, a ? the ninth, had to play the odd for the first time, but a brilliatot approach gave him a half, and he turn-, ed two iVp. Mitchell won the tenth in four tc Kirkwood’s five, but only halved th 4 eleventh, where he had three putts, Kirkwood missed a Bix*-foot putt at the twelfth for a win, and then lost the thirteenth, where Mitchell drove 340 yards, through a penalty for moving the ball whilst addressing it. Both players drove to the fourteenth green, and Mitchell putted dead. Kirkwood overran the hole and stymied himself. He studied the position and holed a brilliant. hop over amidst tremendous applause. At the fifteenth Kirkwood reached the green in two. Mitchell’s bail s\ruck and moved Kirkwood’s, and the latter missed a short putt. Kirkwood, won the sixteenth in two, halved the seventeenth, and lost the eighteenth, where he took three putts. Tn the second round Kirkwood won the first in six, after being bunkered. This was Mitchell’s worst hole of the day, but he made amends at the second with a drive of 370 yards down the wind, winning in three to Kirkwood’s foun The third was halved. Kirkwood’s brassie shot at the fourth found a bunker, Mitchell winning. Mitchell war- now five up. Kirkwood, by means of a three yards putt, won the fifth in two. The sixth was halved. Mitchell won the ’ next, where Kirkwood had three putte.> The eighth was halved, and Mitchell won the ninth. Kirkwood’s approach went over a shooting green and Mitchell turned six up At the tenth Kirkwood's bad slice gave him an unplayable lie among the stones, and he played his third from the tee, putting Mitchell seven up. Th« next two were halved, Mitchell winning the match and the first prize of £2OO. Kirkwood wins £loo.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabld Assn. [Earlier details appear on page 3.]