MRS. P. R. GLANVILLE RETAINS PROVINCIAL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 218, 13 September 1940, Page 10

MRS. P. R. GLANVILLE RETAINS PROVINCIAL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

Holing a 30-foot putt on the seventeenth green, which she had reached with three woods, Mrs. P. R. Glanville brought the final of the Auckland ladies' provincial championship to a dramatic close yesterday afternoon at Titirangi. The longest putt of the match to find the cup left the title-holder 2 and 1 on her opponent, Mrs. K. Dyke, of Kelson.

It was the best match of the tournament judged trom the quality of the play of both contestants and the actual figures obtained. \\ lien ilrs. Glanville rather unexpectedly slammed the door against her opponent— it had appeared certain that the game would go to the eighteenth—she wanted a 4 lor a total ot 79, while Mrs. Dyke was approximately four strokes worse.

j lie finalists were the two best players in the tournament. Mrs. Glanville has for some years been noted for her compact style, more than average range, and general ability to play the shots required. In Mrs. Dyke she met a New Zealand Tasman Cup player of 1937, and a 2 handicapper; thus Mrs. Glanville's success was the most important in her career.

The match on the play could have been won by either player, though there was no doubt that ilrs. Glanville deserved her win. 1 lie game lacked only tile spice of brilliant putting; on the greens both players lost opportunities which, had they beon availed of, would have made the medal scores of both even more impressive. At the sixth hole, where she hit the pin with her approach and stopped just over a yard away, Mrs. Gflanville missed the winning putt, and she failed to turn a similar putt to advantage on the eighth green. In the early stages of the game Mrs. Dyke made resourceful recoveries at the first and third holes to get the half in 4 with one putt, but later she failed on the grcClis at the ninth (which she lost in 5 to 0) and at the twelfth, where she three putted to let Mrs. Glanville get a half in 0, after being bunkered with her third. It was really the iron play which decided the game, and in this respect Mrs. (Danville showed better control, there being an obvious fault in Mrs. Dyke's swing. It was too similar to her drive, the ball being hit on the upswing and not on the down. At only one of the four one-shot holes did Mrs. Dyke make the green with her iron from the tee, and that one, the seventh, she won. On the other hand, Mrs. Glanville missed only the seventh green and got winning threes at the others. A powerful player, Mrs. Dyke outranged her opponent from the tee and was several times in range of the two-sliotters with a inashie niblick. Her most spectacular drive was at the second into the wind, while the advantage of long driving was again demonstrated at the fifteenth. There Mrs. Glanville had a full iron shot for her second and was bunkered. Mrs. Dyke played a niblick, excellently judged on the fast green, and deservedly got a win in 4. After the fourteenth Mrs. Dyke was 2 down, but her win at the next raised possibilities of a change of fortunes. A half in 4 followed at the sixteenth, where Mrs.

Dyke drove into the dip in front of the green, scuttled her second up the bank through the green and did well to hole a six-footer. When Mrs. Glanyille, outranged at the long seventeenth, miss-hit her fairway shot, an opportunity was presented the Nelson player in her uphill struggle. She, too, miss-hit her wood and Mrs. Glanville played her third to the back of the green and then sensationally holed it after Mrs. Dyke had played four. In the first half of the game there was little in it, Airs. Dyke winning the second and losing the fourth. Mrs. Glanville took the lead at the fifth with a 5, lost the seventh to be square again, and got in front with a 5 at the ninth. A splendid approach and one out for a 4 at the tenth put Mrs. Dyke level again, but she immediately became one down and she went through the eleventh green from the tee. Failing to press, home her advantage on the twelfth green, Mrs. Dyke halved the thirteenth in 5, where both nearly holed long putts. Then she became 2 down when she was too strong at the next one-shot-ter, the fourteenth. That was really the turning point of the match. The handicap event, the Middlemore Cup, produced a very interesting final, and was won by Mrs. G. W. Foote (Rotorua) from ilrs. B. M. Sellars (Titirangi) on the eighteenth green, 1 up. Mrs. Foote was conceding her opponent five strokes. A bogey foursomes was won by Mrs. Abbott and Mrs. Preston, who finished 2 down. The next best cards were handed in by Airs. M. H. Shroff and Mrs. C. Jinman (Titirangi) and Misses E. M. and C. Wright (Titirangi), 5 down. The prizes were presented by Mrs. J. C. Finlay. club president, and it was announced that about £25 had been raised for the Patriotic Fund.