GOLF.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 June 1926, Page 6

GOLF.

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST. WON BY AMERICA. pis eiki association —oorriKAi LONDON, June 25. The Open Golf Championship of Britain was continued* at Lythan and St. Anne’s, and was won by Bobby Jones (U.S.A.), with an aggregate of 291. , Following are the scores: — Bobby Jones (U.S.A.) . . 291 A. Watrous (U.S.A.) .. 293 W. Hagen (U.S.A.) .. ..295 Abe Mitchell (Britain) .. 299 Fred. McLeod (U.S.A.) . . 301 F. Juraud (U.S.A.) .. .. 303 H. French (Britain) . . 303 W. E. Melhorn (U.S.A.) . . 304 A. Armour (U.S.A 305 T. Williamson (Britain) . 306 W. Robson (Britain) .. 307 J. Barnes (U.S.A.) . . . . 307 G. Duncan (Britain) . . 308 G. Gadd (Britain) .. .. 310 J. Kirkwood (Australia) . 310 C. A. Whitcombe (Britain) 310 A. E. Havers (Britain) . . 311 J. Baird (Britain) .. .. 311 J. Ray (Britain) 312 A. T. Howard (Australia) 316 A. Herd (Britain) . . . . 318 LONDON, June 26. Bobby Jones’s score of 291 equals Braid’s 1904 Prestwick score—-the lowest since the championship was extended to seventy-two holes. The “Daily .Telegraph” heartily congratulates , Jones on winning the world’s premier golfing event in the face of the fiercest opposition from British and American professionals. Bobby Jones is the most amazing golfer of all time, and is now dual champion of Britain and America. Hfc is in every way worthy of the honour.. He is extremely modest, and shuns limelight like the plague. When 10,000 people acclaimed his victory, he ran off and shut himself up in a corner of the emoke room. The magnitude of the victory stunned him, for he was engaged in a titanic struggle against only one man, Watrous, who happened to be his partner. Both were on the verge of collapse in the fourth round. Jones still was two strokes behind at the 14th, after which he kept Watrous playing the odd, for the latter took three putts at the 14th, 15th, 17th, and 18th holes.