GOLFING AT AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14012, 17 September 1909, Page 3

GOLFING AT AUCKLAND.

NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIPS

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, Sept. 16. The weather held good for the fourth day's play of- the New Zealand golf championships. There waa nothing particularly exciting in the matches decided. The programme consisted of the second round of match play for the New Zealand amateur championship, the ; semi-final of the professional match, and foursomes bogey handicap. The winners of the amateur championship round were fairly well defined before the players went out, and as no great surpriees were recorded the games did not attract much attention. The most interesting match was that between J. C. Bidwill and Col. Tuson. The fortunes of play alternated in this match. CoL Tuson was 1 up going out, but at the fourteenth hole Bidwill was 2 up. Col. Tuson won the next two, and the game was all square at the sixteenth hole. Bidwill won the next two, thus winning the match by 2 up. Another close game was that between Colbeck and Nettle ton. The latter was 2 up with four holes to go. but lost them in succession and was thus beaten by 2 up. I A. Duncan was putting up a fine round when he beat Sams this morning. He went out in 39, five, strokes better than the bogey score, and did six holes of the home journey in 24, seven better than the bogey. On several occasions this week he has done the last three in 13, so that there was a probability that he could have put up a 76 round. Harold defeated Holmes at the eighteenth hole by a putt. The professional matches excited very little interest, F. O. Hood beating D. Hood by S up and 1 to play, and J. Clements beating O. Martin by 5 up and 4 to play, dements and F. G. Hood will meet in the final of the professional match on Saturday morning. The foursomes bogey handicap was won by Denny and Forbes, of Dunedin, from a handicap of 7; A. Duncan and Abhott, of Wellington, bein:; second with 2 up on bogey from a plus 3 handicap. Button (Waitcmata) and* Thomson (Taranaki) were third, with 1 up on bogey with a 10 handicap. NGAMOTU CLUB. A medal handicap was played on the Ngamotu links yesterday afternoon. Following are the, best scores returned : — t • Gross. Hop. Nett. A. Bewley 88 10 78 C. Wriirht 86 5 81 K. Matthews 107 25 82 A. CoHwater 109 26 84 V. Elliot 102 18 84 L. Hanson 90 5 Bi> J. B. Jack v, # 103 18 85 Tlie second ronnd for the committee's trophy will be played to-morrow.