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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 180, 2 August 1932, Page 4

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WHEN SARAZEN WON BRITISH OPEN VICTORY. BRILLIANT EXHIBITION. With rounds of 70 and 69. Gone Sarazen led the field on tht first day of the British open, brilliantly. Havers’ 68 in tho third round, where Sarazen did another pretty 70, brought him within four strokes of the American. Havers’ 68, a new’ record for Prince’s courst at Sandwich, is well worth reproducing, and it is to be recorded that in it he missed yard putts on the thirteenth and fourteenth greens. Tho card (bogey in parentheses) reads: — Out

He drove magnificently, as was evidenced by his taking three putts at tho seventeenth (516 yards). There was evidence that Sarazen’s last round, whore ho took 74. was influenced by tho possibility of Havers catching him up. He went out in 35, but at the tenth he hooked his drive, put his second into a bunker, and was fortunate to escape with nothing worse than a 5 (says George Greenwood). Astonishing Luck. There was another astonishing piece of luck at the next, where his drive struck the top of the Himalayas Ridge. In this vast sandy waste the ball found the one patch of grass on the mountains and from tho giddy height ho crashed it on to the green and got his 4. At the twelfth he was again off the course with his drive, and if ever a man appeared on the verge of collapse it was Sarazen. He was losing colour and appeared in a desperate hurry to play the shots, a sure sign of nervous tension. Though missing the green with his second shot to the thirteenth he scrambled

a 4, and as e picked the ball out of the hole he brushed the hair from his forehead and heaved a sigh of relief. The tide of fortune had turned, for at the fourteenth he ran down a putt of ten yards for a 2. But it was only a fleeting respite, as he dropped a shot al each of the next two holes, at one be cause, envisaging a 3, he war overboU with his first putt, missing the return and at the other because of over-cauti-ousness. Afraid to takp the risk of carrying the bunkers at the seventeenth with the second shot, he played short with an iron; then pitched on to the green and was content to get a 5. Whatever other people may think of his tactics, they were correct in particular circumstances. A 4 at the last hole gave him a round of 74, leaving Haven to accomplish a score of 69 to win. Havers would have been in at the death if his putts in the middle of the round, instead of hanging tantalisingly on the lip of the hole, had condescended to drop. At four consecutive holes the hall played this tragic prank and prospective 3’s became 455. Havers, however, had still a chance, if not of winning, of making a tie of it, with a 3, 4,3, for the last three holes, but his effort not only fizzled out like a damp squib, but he was robbed of second place by another American, Macdonald Smith. Without Precedent. It is a remarkable fact, a circum stance I think almost without precedent on a course of nearly 7000 yardSj that Sarazen should have found it necessary to take a wooden club for a second shot on only one occasion. This was at the seventeenth, and the implement was a spoon. Further, he pever had occasion to take the No. l*ilon from his bag, the second shots where length was required being played with a No. 2. The power of his driving whs such that at most of the holes the No. 4 heavy mashie and tho series of mashie-niblicks were the clubs on which he mainly relied for the approach shots up to the flag. “What inspired m< most,” said Sarazen, afterwards “was the sportsmanlike behaviour oi the spectators. Never once did they get in the way, and I played throughout the championship with the feeling that they only wanted the best man to win. 1 happened to have wop. and they cheered me just as if I had been an Englishman. It is r wonderful spirit, and I feel I owe a lot to the crowd.” WANGANUI LADIES' CLUB FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW FOR FIRST ROUND. The first round of the Wanganui Ladies’ Golf Club championship commences to-morrow. The following is the draw: — A Grade Byes.—Miss Blytb. First Round. Miss Currie v. Mrs Richardson. Mrs A. Hunter v. Miss Johnson. Mrs R. Grace v. Miss Quin. Mrs Gilbert v. Mrs Broderick. Airs Newton v. Miss N. Grace. « Mrs Wilson v. Mrs Hussey. Miss Hammond v. Miss Collier. B Grade Byes:— Miss Burgees v. Mrs Robertson. Mrs Saunders v. Miss Harrison. Airs Brown v. Mrs Beauchamp. Airs Newman v. Mrs Glenn. First Round. Miss Harper v. Alias Handley. Alias Mason v. Miss Christie. Alias Hatrick v. Miss Bassett. Airs Paqualan v. Mrs D’Arcy. Airs Bassett v. Mrs Robertshaw. Airs Hartland v. Miss Ziesler. Mi*s .1. Birth v. Afrs Hutchison. Miss F. Anderson v Miss Mor.t» gomery Moore. C Grade Byes:— Alias E. Craig v. Mrs Cochran. Alias N. Hales v. Airs A. Hatrick. Alias W. Anderson v. Alias W. Russen. Aliss J. Duncan v. Mrs D. Wilson. Miss N. Lewis v. Airs (.'uthbertsor. Miss B. M. Wilson v. Alisa P. Lewis. Mrs Duigan x. Mrs Salmon. First Round. Afiss Paul v. Afiss B. Wilson. Mrs Bain v. Miss Latham. Belmont Onp Results. Following are the net results of t h ret medal rounds for tho Belmont Cup:— Alisa Collier, 246. Airs Newton, 247. Airs R. Grace. 248. Mrs Richardson. 2'»b.

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