GOLF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7498, 4 September 1902, Page 3

GOLF.

. ..-, — '■ ♦ NEW ZEALAND AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. . The competitors were sgain favoured with perfect weather. The chief interest centred in the semi-final round between Gollan and Harold and Gillies and K. Duncan. The former contest provided on© of the finest games that has been, seen in New Zealand. Gollan stafttd with, a lead, and &t ■the. second hole was,, 2 up, but from <tihen on Harold improved, and at the turn the game wa» all square. Excitement increased as Harold continued to hold his own against the Napier representative, and at the eighteenth hole the game wa« still all square. An additional hole was played; but as it waa halved the twentieth had to be played, which Gollan won, and with it the match. ' His play was not as accurate as it waa against A. Duncan, and he certainly had a full flhare of the luck. His putting was not up to form on many <oi the greens. Harold's game was particularly strong, and his fight «gainfet such a formidable opponent stamps him as one of the beat players in New Zealand. The match between Gillies (Auckland) and Duncan (Wellington) was not characterised by the high standard of play that such players are capable of displaying. Gillies was not up to form, and Duncan was mot steady enough. The putting of both players was not of the 'best. . S H. GoUan (Napier) v. J. Harold (Waneanui).—Gollan's 1 approach to the first gfcen was tihe finer, and lie took the hole m 6. Gollan also won the second. The third was halved 1 in 5, and Gollan stood 2 up. He was on The Double green' in his second. Haroldoverrunning with the cleek, yet the hole was halved in 4. Both players 1 were on the fifth green with their eecond, Gollan« lying dead, ■but he missed an easy 'putt and enabled Hwrolefc to halve. Tihe sixth, seventh and eighth were also halved, and the Briggs' was won by Harold in 4, Gollan 1 up. At the tenth hole Harold- iholed out in 5 and made things all square. Harold took The lyupiu* and was 1 up, but Gollan made all sqaar© by wincing the next. Land's End 1 went -to, Harold, and again lie stood 1 1 up. He got into the bunker at (yEorke's Drift, but got out well and succeeded in halving the liole. Gollan won Spionkop, and 1 agrairu the ecor© was all square. Tihe -sixteenth, seventeenth sun<k home holes were • all lhalved, and so was the nineteenth. Gollan then won. the twentieth and th« match with 1 up. C. E. S. Giliies v. K. Duncan.— Duncan met with a series' of mishaps on the way lo the first hole, and GiUies won in 6. He also took the second by a good 4 to his opponent's 6. The next also went to the same player. At The Double the hole was halved through Gillies not being as stroaz as usual on the green, Tha next was also halved' in 3, Gillies leading with 3 up. The Braes' green was halved in 6. At the next Duncan fooled" out in 4 to Gillies' 5. Gillies 2 up. The corner was played indifferently by both men, and was halved in 4. Gillies took Briggs' and stood 3 up, and l The Upahot wa-s halved- in 4. On the way to The Lupins Gillies, lost Ms ball and the -hole, p*id The Lake ho'.e was halved, a.nd : the score Gillies 2 uv>. Land's End was won by Gillies in 7. Gillies got bunkered at O'Eorke's drift, but made a good recovery and halved. Gillies 3 up and 4 to play. Duncan holed out Spionkop, reducing the score to 2wo and 3 to piny. The Chasm waa won by Gillies, and he took the match 3 up and' 2 to play.