Tour Of Britain By Dominion’s Professional Golfers’ Team Planned

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 September 1950, Page 5

Tour Of Britain By Dominion’s Professional Golfers’ Team Planned

AUCKLAND, Last Night (P.A.)— If present plans mature a Dominions’ professional golfers’ team will tour Britain next year, according to A. Murray, former New Zealand open and professional champion, who returned to Auckland on Saturday from a successful tour of Australia. The proposal t,o send a t earn is arousing the highest interest in Australian golf and suggestions that New Zealand should be represented were made to him by members of the Australian Professional Golfers' Association. The object of the tour would be to compete in several of the rich tournaments of the British season and to engage in at least one match against a British professional team on the lines of the Ryder Cup contest between Britain and America. In his stay of little less than a month in Australia, Murray achieved the distinction of becoming the first New Zealand male golfer to win an Australian open title. This was the Ampol £lOOO tournament at Glenlcg, Adelaide, Murray's prize of £250 being supplemented by £33 from the gate. Subsequently he competed in the Australian open at Kooyonga, Adelaide, and in the Silver King. £5OO tournament at Melbourne, finishing ninth in the open and fourth in the Silver King.