BRITISH GOLF.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20342, 27 June 1934, Page 1

BRITISH GOLF.

Alliss and Adams Beat Course Record. CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY. United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph Copyrigh t. (Received June 27, 10.30 am.) LONDON, June 2G. In the open golf championship James Adams and Percy Alliss, with 67. beat the course record at Deal. Scores of 152, or better, qualify for the champions* ip proper. One hundred and two players quali- I fied. Gadd’s aggregate was five fewer than i any previous qualifying rounds. The critics emphasise the gratifying j display which British golfers are re- I vealing in stroke saving on the greens.; Adams, aged twenty-three, the Irish ; champion, putted wonderfully, going r out in 32 and home in 35. All the Americans qualified. Kirkwood strained a shoulder. lie I might haye had an excellent score, but ; took 20 for the last four holes. lie made j a magnificent shot at the fifth, where ■ the ball was lying on the down-slope of the bunker. Kirkwood took a lefthanded No. 2 iron, hit the ball to the green 190 yards away, and got a par four. In the second round the aggregates include the following: At Deal.

P. Alliss i u T. H. Cotton 141 Tames Adams 141 E. Storey 143 Fairweather 143 Laidlaw 144 Bradbeer 147 F. Robson 148 A. Mitchell 149 Rex Hartley 150 Ilodson . 151 W. T. Twine 152 Lester 152 Hartlev 152 A. G. Havers 157 T. Woollam 158 T. Wallace 160 G. Duncan 160 E. Ray At Sandwich. 161 Bert Gadd . 140 D. Martin 144 A. II. Padgham 145 R. Whitcombe A. Boomer . 146 C. Whitccmbe 147 Macdonald-Smith . 148 E. Whitcombe . US Densmore Shute . 149 S. Easterbrook . 119 H. C. Tolly 149 A. M. Dailev 149 J. Kirkwood . 150 G. Sarazen . 150 T. M’Lean 152 Perrv 152 Kenvon 153 L. King 153 . Lacey 154 A. Compston 154 T. A. Bourn 155 Braid 157 Denny 157 Scott 160 A. Herd 161 Dr Carew Nott (Aust.) . 165