GOLF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17853, 22 May 1926, Page 15

GOLF.

“ DAILY MAIL ” TROPHY GOES TO FRENCHMAN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, May 20. The “Daily Mail” golf tournament was won by Aubrey Boomer. of St Cloud, Paris, with an aggregate of 297. Mitchell and Duncan tied for second place, with three hundred. Mitchell did the third round in 74, the fourth round in 76, and leads in the aggregate with 300. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 20. Boomer 73. 75; 76, 73; total 297. Mitchell, 75, 76; 71, 76; total 300. Duncan 79, 75; 73, 73; total 300. Gaudin 80, 77; 73, 71; total 301. Twine 77, 78; 74, 75; total 304. Compson, 82, 74; 78, 70; total 304. Robson 76, 73; 76. 80; total 305. Other scores were: Jolly 305, Williamson, Havers and E. R. Whitcombe 306, Ray 307, Cadd 308, G. A. Whitcombe 312, Popplewell 331. At the end of the third round at Saint Andrews the only players with a winning prospect were Mitchell and Boomer, 224, Robson 225, and Duncan 227. Early in the fourth round there was a violent thunderstorm and torrential rain. Within five minutes great pools collected on the links. Play was postponed for an hour while the water was swept off'the greens. Mitchell, at the far end of the links, did not hear of the -postponement and plodded on through the deluge. His seventy-six was one of the finest rounds of golf ever played. As an instance of the conditions, Renouf needed five putts on the flooded seventeenth green. Compston was forced to putt with a raashie on four greens. Popplewell has not reached his true form. His morning eighty-four was chiefly due to three putts on nine green. In the course of his afternoon’s eighty-eight he fas thrice out of bounds, and his putting was still faulty.