COUNT-BACK TO DECIDE GOLF

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 19

COUNT-BACK TO DECIDE GOLF

(from Our Own Reporter) WESTPORT. Canterbury won the South Island interprovincial golf championship at Westport on Sunday but only after surviving a count-back on games with Otago. Canterbury and Otago each had three wins.

Mid-South Canterbury won two matches and Buller-West-land-Marlborough-Nelson, and Southland, one each. Two young members of the Canterbury team, J. F. Logie and J. R. Broadhurst, with four and three wins respectively, contributed considerably to their team’s success. R. K. Aitkinson, runner-up in the New Zealand amateur championship last year, also played well to get three wins and a half. E. H. M. Richards also showed good form to win three matches. Surprising Defeat Canterbury’s only loss was a rather surprising one, at the hands of Mid-South Canterbury, but it scored decisive wins over Southland and Otago, and, to a lesser extent, the combined team. The New Zealand representative, R. C. Murray, was the only number one player to go through unbeaten but

he could only halve his game with A. C. Browne (Mid-South Canterbury). In the last round, Murray was in devastating form to beat G. Lummis, of Nelson, 5 and 4. T. P. Pfahlert, the former West Coast champion, and captain of the Mid-South Canterbury team, won two and halved two, but J. M. Lister was the outstanding member of that team. He won three games and squared the other. A. J. Palmer (Otago), playing in his first major teams tournament, was another to win four games. The tournament was played in good conditions on the Kawatiri course and large galleries followed the leading players. The best round recorded — some rounds were unfinished : when the winner was obvious—was a 67 by the Mid-South Canterbury player. J. M. Richards. Detailed Results The following are detailed results of the matches, players of the first-named team being given first in each case:— Canterbury v. Mid-South Canterbury —M. W. Stanley halved with T. E. Pfahlert; R. K. Atkinson, halved with I. S. Beswawick; E. H. Richards lost to J. M. Lister, 4 and 2: C. W. Caldwell lost to A. C. Brown, 5 and 4: J. R. Broadhurst beat A. M. Robinson. 4 and 2: J. F. Logie beat D. Murdoch, 5 and 3: D. R. Hope lost to G. P. Vesty. 3 and 2: R. E. Clements lost to I. S. Harvey. 5 and 3. Canterbury 3, Mid-South Canterbury 5. Buller-Westland. Nelson. Marlborough v. Canterbury.—R. Ford lost to Broadhurst, 4 and 2; K. Gardiner lost to Logie, 1 down: K. Jones halved with Hope: G. Lummis beat Clements. 1 2 up; G. Allan beat Stanlev, 3 and 1: D. Marshall lost to Atkinson. 2 down: P. Stapp lost to Richards, 1 down: J. Morgan beat Caldwell. 5 and 4. Combined 31. Canterbury 44. Otago v. Mid South Canterbury—Palmer beat Robinson. 4 and 3; Munro beat Murdoch. 6 and 5: Romerill lost to Vesty. 2 and 1: Colquhoun beat Harvey. 4 and 3: Cowie haired with Pfahlert. Roche beat Beswarwick. 1 up; Howorth lost to Lister. 3 and 1. Murrav halved with Brown. Otago 5, Mid-Soutli Canterbury 3.

Canterbury v. Southland.— Broadhurst beat Radford, 7 and 6: Logie beat McLennan. 4 and 2: Hope halved with O'Neill; Clements beat Adams, 3 and 1; Stanley lost to Harvey. 6 and 4: Atkinson beat Maley, 6 and 4; Richards beat Downie. 6 and 5; Caldwell beat Stephens. 2 and 1. Canterbury 61. Southland li. Southland v. Mid-South Canterbury.—Harvey beat Robinson, 1 up: Maley lost to Murdoch, 5 and 4: Downie lost to Vesty, 2 and 1: Stephens beat I. Harvey, 2 and 1: Radford lost to Pfahlert. 3 and 1; McLennan lost to Beswarwick. 6 and 5: O'Neill halved with Lister: Adams beat Brown, 2 and 1; Southland 34. Mid-South Canterbury 41. Mid-South Canterbury v. Combined.—Pfahlert beat Ford. 7 and 6: Beswarwick beat Gardiner. 4 and 3; Lister beat Jones, 2 up: Brown lost to Lummis, 3 and 4; Robinson, lost to Allan. 1 down: Murdoch lost to Marshall, 2 and

1: Vesty lost to Staff, 2 and 1: Harvev lost to Morgan, 6 and 5. Mid-South Canterbury 3. Combined 5. Otago v. Canterbury.—Cowie halved with Stanley; Roche lost to Atkinson, 4 and 2: Howorth lost to Richards. 3 and 1: Murray beat Caldwell. 2 up: Palmer beat Broadhurst. 2 and 1: Munro lost to Logie, 7 and 6: Romerill lost to Hope, 6 and 5: Colquhoun lost to Clements, 6 and 4. Otago 2s. Canterbury 5L Only three players. R. C. Murray (Otago), A. T. Harvey (Southland), and A. J. Palmer (Otago) won all four games. While T. E. Pfahlert (Mid-South Canterbury with two wins and two halves was undefeated.