WAIKATO GOLF

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 15 (Supplement)

WAIKATO GOLF

GLADING’S RECORD SCORE

■ OPPORTUNITIES ARE LIMITED | EXCITING LOCHIEL FINAL 1 Naturally the sensation of last week’s golf was the record-breaking score oi 65 by 800 Glading, a score that 1 doubt will ever be beaten in the history of St. Andrews. At the same time I am going to confess that ai nearing of this score I was not as surprised as I might have been. Playing with Glading some weeks ago, when he did a 69, 1 noticed that he was very unlucky with some J well stroked putts, and I mentioned . afterwards that, considering the way he was playing his shots, some day ! with a bit of luck on the greens he ! was sure to return some phenomenal j figures. My only regret at hearing | oi this score was for Glading him- • self who, through • war conditions, ; will miss his opportunity of going j overseas to prove himself in world’s i class. We in Mew Zealand will miss j the opportunity of being proud of j having turned out a golfer capable j of showing the brilliance of Ausi tralia’s Jim Ferrier and South ; Africa’s Bobby Locke. This card of Glading’s was returned in the St. | Andrews Rose Bowl competition, an I aggregate of two bogey rounds, and | with 7 up for the first round GladI ing looks like the potential winner, j Nevertheless some other good cards • were returned and, although the ! competition has been robbed of inj terest for most, there are still one i or two with just a chance Last Open Day Gordon Seccombe showed a flash of brilliance, which lie is capable of at times, and returned a card of 72 —a very meritorious round. His bogey card of 4 up leaves him within striking distance of Glading, while j A. F. Small was one worse, being 3 j up. Others who played well were j T. Milroy, A. E. McCracken and W. I Coltman, who were 2 up. I On the following day St. Andrews ! held its last open day for the season ! and the best gross went to G. Arm- | strong who played good golf throughout the day to score 73 in j each round. In the morning George dropped a stroke at the fifth—taking ' a five—but more than made up for ' this at the sixth where he holed out : with his second from 90 yards out , for a two. In the afternoon his poorest hole was the 16th—an easy ! bogey 5. Here he took a six through a weak third shot. At the 17th, however, he put his second fairly dead to get a bogey 3, and went one better at the 18th by notching an . eagle 3. | The net 36 holes for the day was ! won by Frank Roach from an 8 han- ; dicap with two good steady rounds of 80 and 82. Roach reduced quickly i from 18 to 8, and after a lull appears I to be on the upgrade again. With i a little more improvement in his | work around the greens he should j eventually reach the class of Arm- ' strong, Seccombe and company. | A very popular win was that of i W. Waring’s in the morning bogey j with a card of 4 up. His medal round was 88 from 18 for a net 70 and could have been much better as , the 13th and 14th were two disas- | trous holes for h.im. Probably the ' most successful player of the year, ' apart from Glading, is Lynden Chitty, and by scoring 37 points in ; the Stableford he was once again in the money to win the Stableford , trophy. Starting the season on the : 24 mark Chitty is sure to be on only j half of that mark by the end of the j 6eason. | Play at Lochiel At Lochiel the big interest was the I final of the senior championship over ' 3 holes between E. Etheridge and S. i Cuthbertson. Etheridge started out ! favourite and, although having a big 1 lead at one stage of the game, even- : tually only won by the narrow marI gin of 2 and 1. The golf throughI out the game was of quite a high i standard and Etheridge carded a 76 j in the morning to Cuthbertson’s 79. i Etheridge’s 76 included a six at the j last hole, which he lost, while Cuthi bertson had a bad hole at the fifth, j taking a seven after putting his tee i shot in the river. i In the afternoon there was no j change after the first four holes, each j equalling bogey figures to this point. I The fifth proved disastrous to Cuthbertson again and, repeating his per- : formance of the morning by putting his tee shot in the river, lost the hole i to Etheridge’s bogey 5 to be 4 down. 1 With bogeys at the sixth and seventh I Etheridge increased his lead to six 1 and appeared to have the game won. After another six holes, however, the ' whole aspect of the game had | changed and Etheridge saw his big lead dwindle to one. Cuthbertson j had reeled off six bogeys with prei cise regularity and now had a good chance to win. At the 15th, of ap- . proximately 200 yards, neither made | the green with his tee shot and 1 halves in four resulted. The 16th ' saw both get good tee shots away, with Etheridge playing the better j second to 12 yards past the pin. i Cuthbertson, to the left of the green. 1 was short with his approach and missed the putt to be 2 down again. : At the 17th Etheridge was probably a bit lucky here ‘to win the game, as after a pulled tee shot and not very good second he laid his third dead for a half and the match. Etheridge’s medal round was 78 to Cuthbertson’s 76. Matamata Tournament ■ The Matamata Club held a very ‘ successful fixture last week when they staged their second Waikato East junior championship. The popularity of this event can be gauged from the entries, which numbered over 100, and the distances travelled by some to participate. This tournament is for players on handicaps from 16 to 24, and in search of the junior crown came players from Te Puke. Tauranga, Rotorua, Putaruru, Morrinsville, Te Aroha, Walton, Paeroa and Hamilton. At the conclu-

sion of the day H. Kneebone, of the Matamata Club, was crowned junior champion, his two 85’s being a stout effort. His net score for the two rounds was 131, and closely following him was J. Mclntyre, of the Matamata Club, with 85 and 87, while another Matamata player in J. Kosoof was third with 90-85. Apparently the Matamata players had the edge on the visitors through the help of a bit of local knowledge. I. Kosoof, besides being third in the championship, carried off the best net 36-hole medal for the day with 131, while H. Bryen, of Tauranga, with 67, won the morning medal. The afternoon Stableford went to H. Robertson, of Te Aroha, with a card of 36 points. In the teams match Matamata No. 1 team, represented by Hollis, Main, Kneebone and Kosoof, were the winners with a total of 282, while Putaruru, represented by Howarth, Freeman, Walford and Tiggins, were second with 300. It was a happy thought on the part of the Matamata club to stage an open junior championship. Golfers are reminded that there is another day open to all handicaps on this sporting little country course on October 20.