AT BALMACEWEN LINKS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 4

AT BALMACEWEN LINKS

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS PROGRAMME OF EVENTS The New Zealand golf championship meeting will be held at the Balmacewen links, Dunedin, from Thursday, November 10, to Friday, November 18. The tournament will be held under the control of the New Zealand Golf Association and under the management of the Otago* Golf Club. The leading title event is the open championship of New Zealand, won at Hamilton last season by J. P. Hornabrook, then attached to the Manawatu Golf Club. Hornabrook won the title under sensational circumstances, following disqualification of A. Murray, Auckland professional, for a breach of the rules. This left Hornabrook, A. J. Shaw and E. J. Moss level on the aggregates, and a play-off was required to decide the winner. Four rounds of stroke “play decide the open champion-

ship title, which carries with it the Challenge Cup presented by Mr. Brodie Breeze, of Glasgow. Should a professional be placed in any position from first to sixth he will receive prize money ranging down from £4u to £25, £l5, £lO and £5 for the respective placings. Should an amateur fill any of these places he will receive a trophy. A Challenge Cup, presented by the late Earl Jehicoe, is awarded to the amateur or professional returning the best single round in the open championship. The Jellicoe Cup was won by E. J. Moss last year. The amateur returning the best four rounds in the open championship is awarded the Bledisloe Cup, this being won last season by Hornabrook. The O’Rorke Challenge Vase is presented to the team of amateurs with the lowest aggregate score in the second round of the open championship. The trophy was won last year by the Hutt Golf Club team, comprising W. G. Horne, I. A. Ewen, G. B. Ward and G. P. Roberts. For qualified professionals there is the Gibson Cup, presented by Messrs. William Gibson and Sons, Kinghorn, Scotland, for the best aggregate gross score returned in the first and second rounds of the open championship. This was won last season by E. J. Moss. The corresponding trophy in the third and fourth rounds, the Myers Cup, presented by the late Sir Arthur Myers, is for the best aggregate net scores. It was won last season by A. J. Shaw.

The amateur championship of New Zealand will be contested on match play, by the 32 amateurs returning the lowest aggregates in the four rounds of the open. Last year’s winner was B. M. Silk, of Wanganui. The sixteen eliminated in the first round of the amateur play will play in the New Zealand Plate, a challenge plate presented by Messrs. Gonville and Imlay Saunders, of Wanganui.

The professional championship will be contested by the sixteen professionals Returning the lowest aggregates in the open championship, the winner receiving £4O and a challenge cup presented by Mr. W. H. Macdougail, of Christchurch. The amateur championship four-