GOLF IN BRITAIN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20296, 4 May 1934, Page 7

GOLF IN BRITAIN.

Cotton Provides Surprise in Dunlop Tourney. WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 4, 2.20 p.m ) LONDON. May 3 In the Dunlop Golf Tournament sixty-nine players with aggregates of 154 or under qualified for the final two rounds. Padgham is leading with 140 The other leaders are: Lacey 142. Rudd 143, Mitchell 143, Branch 143, M’Dowal! 143, Cotton 144. Ay ton 144. Other scores include: R IV hitcoml>e 145 Compston 146, <’ Whitcombe 14C. Hodson 146, Brews 146, E. Whitcombe 147, Havers 148, Easterbrook 148, Sevmour 149. Alliss 150, Boomer 133, King 153. Davies 153. To-day’s play at Southport produced a great surprise. Cotton on ednesday was quite out of the running Today Cotton and Ayton, a fifty-year-old Scotsman who formerly was prominent at St Andrews, first as an amateur and then as a professional, playing together each had a round of 63, breaking th<* record for the 6800 yard course. Ayton took onlv twenty-five putts and Cotton twenty-six. The Ladies Golf Union told the London Agency of the Svdnev “ Sun ” that the entries of Miss Oliver Kay and Miss Bessie Gaisford have been accepted. The qualifying rounds for the British Women’s Open Golf Championship will be played to-day week, when sixtyfour will qualify for the match play, which extends ever eighteen holes, until the final, when thirty-six holes will bt played. New Zealand has four representatives, Miss Oliver Kay, Miss Bessie Gaisford. Mrs Collinson and Mrs Jacobsen. The event will be played on the Royal Porthcawl course, Glamorganshire, Wales.