GOLF.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17869, 31 January 1928, Page 5

GOLF.

KIRK-WINDEYER CUP. AUSTRALIAN TEAM WIN. By T«l«tr»t>h —Prei* A*»oc!»tlon. WELLINGTON, Jan. 30. New Zealand to-day lost the KirkWindeyer Cup to Australia on the Miramar links in ideal w'eather. Each team won three matches, but on holes being counted Australia had Avon ten holes to six. Morpeth and Ross won their match in the foursomes, and Horton, and Ross each Avon their singles foi: the NeAv Zealand team.

The game betAveen Nigel Smith and W. R. Smith for Australia, and S. Morpeth and K. Ross for NeAV Zealand, was a keen struggle, the result being in doubt to the last hole. Nigel Smith was hitting‘a tremendous ball, Avliile W. Smith showed a marvellous gift of getting out of trouble. Neither struck really good putting form. Morpeth and Ross played steadily, but both showed the effects of strain. The players were all square at the turn, and again at the sixteenth. The seventeenth Avas the most spectacular hole, of the match. W. Smith played a magnificent iron shot from the left side of the fairway, but it kicked into a bunker hole high on the left. N. Smith, with a mighty explosion shot, placed it three feet from the pin, but Morpeth, from a hall nicely placed by Ross out of the marram grass, holed a twenty-footer for a birdie 3, making New Zealand 1 up. Morpeth’s drive Avas bunkered at the eighteenth and Ross was unable to get It out more than a few yards. N. Smith’s tremendous brassie second found the bunker to the left of the green, but W. Smith laid the hall almost dead. N. Smith found tho strain too much and missed the putt, the hole being halved in 5, and New Zealand won 1 up. Each pair took 38 out and 39 back. With the exception of one or two holes, sterling golf was played between T. H. Horton and D. Grant, and the Australians W. R. Dobson and Dr. Brown. A ten-foot putt sunk by BroAvn at the ninth gave the Australians the hole, and they turned for home 2 up. At the eleventh the Australians had a lead of 4 up, but New Zealand took the next three holes. At the sixteenth New Zealand were in trouble, Australia winning in three. The seventeenth was halved in 4, and Australia took the eighteenth in 5 to 7, and won 3 up. In the singles Dr. Ross defeated Dr. Smith by four up. T. H. Horton accounted for W. R. Smith by one up.

W. R. Dobson beat D. Grant by ono up. Dr. Brown won bis match with S. Morpeth by six up. i There was a closely contested Same between T. Horton and W. R. Smith. Smith won the ninth in fire to six, and turned ono up. Horton squared the game at the fourteenth by winning the. hole in three to four, and he won the 15th in four to hve, giving him a hole to the good. The sixteenth was halved for a four, Smith being unlucky not to win. Horton went very wide out to the left with his drive at the seventeenth, but with his third he was handy to tho pin. Smith stymied Horton with his fourth stroke, but Horton chipped over his opponent’s ball for a win in four. The seventeenth Smith won in four, Horton winning the match ono up. In the match between Dr. Brown and Morpeth. Brown turned two up, going out in 34 to Morpeth’s 36. Brown finished six -up, having come in in 38, as against Morpeth’s 40. Grant met W. R. Dobson, and was three down at the turn. Dobson won tho tenth, bat Grant won the 13th, 14th and 16th, the others being halved. Tho seventeenth was another half. The last hole wont to Dobson in six, which gave tho Australian the honour by two up. Ross had a comfortable win over Nigel Smith, the South Island player still displaying that consistency which has been one of the features of tho tournament. Ross war, 3 up at the turn, the outward figures being Ross 36, Smith 40. Ross won 4 up.