SHAW WINS THE N.Z. PROFESSIONAL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 November 1946, Page 5

SHAW WINS THE N.Z. PROFESSIONAL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

KITTO REACHES SEMI-FINAL OF THE AMATEUR (P.A.) Palmerston N., Oct. 31. The New Zealand golf championships were continued at Hokowhitu in tine weather and over a much faster course. There wal much brilliant golf, especially that of Shaw and Murray in the professional tinal, and Glading and Wood, whose game finished when Wood missed a short putt on the last green after being two down at the end of the first round. Results were:— PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL A. J. Shaw (Hastings) beat Alex Murray (unattached, Auckland), 6 and 5. AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP Quarter-finals R. H. Glading (Hamilton) beat D. L. Woon (Waitikiri, Christchurch), 1 up. W. B. Reilly (Hutt) beat L. B. Quinn (Manor Park), 4 and 3. A. R. Kitto (Castlecliff) beat K. 8. Glendinnlng (Manawatu), 5 and 3. W. G. Horne (Hutt) beat G. P. Roberts (Hutt), 1 up. NEW ZEALAND PLATE First Round B. Bamfield (New Plymouth) beat E. J. Astin (Manawatu), at the 30th. H. A. Black (Miramar) beat R. Hay Mackenzie (Titirangi), by default. J. L. Black (Tinui) beat E. H. Gray (Otaki), by default. C. J. Ward (Christchurch) beat A. H. Boyd (Dunedin), 1 up. D. H. Graham (Manawatu) beat J. Holden (New Plymouth), 1 up. W. E. Jones (Taumarunui) beat J. P. Ralph (Remuera), 2 and 1. A. Ewen (Hutt) beat H. J. Longstaff (Hastings), 4 and 3. B. M. Silk (vVa.’oanui) beat N. H. Amon (Manawatu), 2 up. Second Round Bamfield beat Black by default. Ward beat J. L. Black, 7 and 6. Jones beat Graham, 5 and 4. Silk beat Ewen, 2 and 1.

SUPERLATIVE GOLF

Superlative golf by Shaw against Murray in the professional final and a titanic struggle over 36 holes by Glading and Woon in the quarterfinal of the amateur championship were highlights to-day. There were other notable games, but the Glading-Woon match, which provided the best golf of the tournament, was a classic and finished on the 36th. green, when Woon missed a short putt. The game was followed by a big gallery. Glading won the third hole, but Woon got that back with a 2 at the fourth, but lost the next two. Both were playing brilliant golf, the cards out reading:— Glading: 44435453 3—35 Woon: 44526553 3—37 Glading electrified the spectators when he holed out from a bunker at the tenth. At the next Woon rolled down a long putt. They were one under par tor the next four holes. Woon tnen had to negotiate a stymie. Woon lost the seventeenth and when they went on the 18th. tee, Glading required 3 for a 69. He lost that hole, but was 2 up. The cards in to lunch read:— Glading: 34354444 5—36 Woon: 53354445 4-36 Glading's round would equal 71 and Woon’s 73. The golf in the afternoon was the most brilliant of the tournament. When the match finished the green was rimmed >vith spectators, and the result depended upon the last putt, which Glading sank after Woon had missed one just a fraction longer. Woon was unlucky. He hit the better second, but the ball pitched in a shallow bunker and rolled close to the outside edge. Woon missed his putt on the second in the afternoon and was 3 down. Glading missed another on the next. Woon got the second hole back at the sixth. The figures out were: Glading: 44535553 3—37 Woon: 45435453 3-36 Woon was one down at the turn, but squared the match with a 3 at the tenth. Glading won the eleventh and the long 13th. with a birdie. Woon squared tile match again with wins at the 14th. and 16th. It was at the 17th., when the pressure was right on that they played two of the grandest shots ot the match. Playing his first to the green, Woon was six feet to the left. Glading replied with one under four feet away to the right. Both sank their putts. Glading won the last hole and his aggregate for the day was 144 and Woon’s 145. THE PROFESSIONALS Shaw was one up at the turn in the morning and botli played superlative golf. Murray's only bad shot was the one which put him into a bunker at the third. From the trap he played a masterly shot to get a half. At the long hole, Murray w’as not far past tlie flag with his third and Shaw was about eight feet away. Murray was dead for an easy live and Shaw’s putt hit the back of the hole and stayed out. Shaw won the seventh and Murray tlie Sth. Shaw holed a 10-footer for a win in 2at the 9th. The cards were: Shaw: 44435544 2—35 Murray: 44435553 3—36 Murray halved the 13th. and slipped to a five at the 14th., then being three down. At the 15th. was halved in birdie fours, and he was in a bunker to lose the 16th. All the time, Shaw was putting for birdies, but at the 17. k missed a four-footer and Murray got one back. Murray was on the back ol the home green with his second and Siiaw in front of the pin. Murrays approach shot left him a longish putt, which he missed, Shaw going in to lunch 4 up. The cards read:— Shaw: 54354445 4—38 Murray: 54455454 5—41 When the game resumed, Murray suffered another loss when lie missed a putt on the first green. They halved tlie next in par figures, but a birdie three by Shaw increased his lead to six ar the third. Within four feet of the- flat at the long hole he sank a putt for a birdie 4, and was 7 up. At the next it was Murray who turned on the fireworks with a brilliant. eagle It. They halved Riverside in 4's, and the 9th., where Shaw was G up. Their cards out read:— ....... „ Shaw: 44334 5 44 3—34 Murray: 54435344 3—35 The next hole was halved in par 4’s and Murray got one back with a pat 4 to 5 at the 11th. He put one out of hounds at the 13th. and that is w here Shaw clinched it 6 and 5.