GOLF TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2344, 29 December 1914, Page 9

GOLF TOURNEY

THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY DUNCAN MYERS CUP FOR PROFESSIONALS Beautiful weathor attracted quite a good number of spectators to. Heretaunga yesterday to witness the play on the concluding day of the WellingtonG01f... Championship , Tourney. Tho course was in splendid order, and the condition of the greons reflected' credit on the greenkooper, who had been early at'work.' The principal items on tho day's programmo were _the_ semi-finals and final for the Provincial Amateur Championship and the professional contost for the Myors Cup. Tho feature of the amateur event was the good form shown by the Now Zealand champion (Mr. A. D. S. Duncan) 'iii : the and his comfortable victory in tho final. Late in tho afternoon, the prizes won at the meeting were presented to tho successful competitors by Lady Ward Amateur Championship. In the'semi-finals , for the amateur championship, some capital, play was seen. Duncan, -who met Taylor, recovered his form (lost on Saturday) and won 7 up and 5 to play. Continuing tho , round for the Modal Handicap, ho completed in. 70. His card read 'as follows :— Out:' 5, 5; 3, 3, 2, 4, 4, 6,'4435. In: ij 8, 5, A, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4—35. Wood ex-New Zealand champion, won an exciting match horn Kidston at the laet Mo. Kidston was 3 up at tho fourth hut Wood equared the game at tho eighth and it was aj) square at tho ninth. Wood's only point in the nest five holes was at the twelfth, end Kidston winning the other four was. 3 up and 4to play. Wood won the fifteenth in two by getting down a putt of 15 yards, and Kideton was beaten by a stjmie at tho noxt. .Wood followed up these successes by squaring tho game at the sevonteeth, and Kidston, getting into;the rough on the way to the last green, enabled Wood to win the hole in four and the match one up. The Final. s Duncan and Wood commenced the final early in the afternoon.' Wood drove his tee shot into a log and took three to the green againet Duncan's, two,' but Duncan required four putts and the hole was halved in six (bogey five). The next three were likewise halved in five, four, and five. At the fifth (194 yds.), Duncan l'eachedthe green 6afcly with his tee shot, but required three putts. Wood, hqwever, was in trouble the whole way, and Duncan won tho hole in four, and was one up. Wood squared the game 'once more at the sixth, but at the seventh he pulled lis second into the rough, while Duncan laid his long iron approach shot within 12 feet of the pin, holed out in four, and was again' one up. The long eighth was halved in six, and both competitors, meeting with difficulties ■"-at the ninth,-a halt jn five was recorded; Duncan turned 0110 up, » and gained a further point at tho tenth, where Wood put,his.too shot out of bounds, and took ive to Duncans four. The eleventh was lalved in four. / At tho twelfth, Duncan landed his "second near tho corner of the green, whilei Wood pulled his into 'the rough away to the left of the hole, and took two more to got>on"i to.the green. Duncan won in four, and was, three up. Wood .sliced his tee shot next time, and though ho made a neat ■ recovery, Duncan'won the hole, again in four—four up. Duncan laid .his iron shot on the green at the fourteenth 188 yards), wnile Wood got among the ong graea on the left, and required two more to find tho green. Duncan then laid his firet putt on the'edge of th tin, won tho holo in three, and the championship five up and four to play.. The Professionals. Playing for the Myers Cup, the professionals did not show the same form as in the preceding match. At the mish of tho morning round, Clements hold prido , of place, ivith a, fine 73. Goina out in 39, the only blemish was a five at the short ninth, where he played a capital stroke from the bank of tho creek. ■ He failed, however, to follow up tho advantage, requiring threo putts on the green. Playing perfect golf on the road •' home, he was three under fours to the lost hole, hut over-running the green lie found a bunker and recorded a five—finishing in 34. His afternoon round was a 76, built lip by steady play. His putting was hardly up to that of the morning round, but hie score enabled him to win comfortably. Watt, who returned a well played 75 in the morning, was finding all sorts of trouble off his tee ehote in the aftornoon, and took over 80 to finish the round. lies played steady golf, but a mietako now and then cost him strokes and his approaching was not up to his usual standard. Still his scores of 77 both morning and afternoon were good. Douglas was troubled I off the tee again, and this cost him 1 several strokes in his morning round, but playing wpII coining home he re--1 corded a 79. In the afternoon he did j not play with his usual vim, and hie scores wore largor than expected. The other professionals were all playing about a par, missed putts being the usual complaint. Throughout the meeting, tho professionals have had nothing but praise for the condition of the course. In 'the opinion of several of them, it is the finest in tho Dominion. The putting greens and the condition of the fairnays were-described as the best ever played on in New Zealand. Details of the tcoree in the Myers Cup are as follow:— • . e . Total. Clements ... 73 V 76 149 lies 77. 77 154 Hood 82 74 156 Douglas 1. 79 79 158 Butters'.. '. 81 , 77 158 Stewart ............ 80 79 159 , Bell :... 83 84 .167 Watt 75 — . *- M'Ewen 81 — — I I • '■' ■ Other Events. The mixed foursomos (bogey handicap), 18 holes, lesulted in a tie botween Mrs. Lees and Eric Lees 4 up, and Miss 1 Bell' and Marchbanks 4 up. ■ The next t bost carda handed in were: .Miss Duthie 1 and Rhind 3 up, Miss Pen/rce and Pearco ono up, Miss Wheolor and Taylor all squaro, Mrs. Biss and Hiy all square,-Miss Bristow and Hitchings all squaro,\and Miss Gorrio and Biss all square./ , ■ Medal Handicap (18 holes).—The best net scores were: Ward (10), 71; Eric Lees (14), 74; Woon (8), 74; Duncan (plus 4),- 74; Cliniio (scr.), 75; Lees, senr. (5), 76; Cheerioy (12), 76; Dr. Young (18), 78; Erskine (8), 78: Kirkb.y (8), 79. : In the , JfourbalJ Foursomes (bogey),' Ward and Ryan tied with Hay and Woon on Saturday, and, in the play-off yesterday there was, a second tie, eaoh with 10 up. It was therefore decided to give two prizes. -^ In the play-off of the Bogey Handicap, T. H. Dawson (8) defeated Dr. Webster : (ll), three upFurther putting competitions resulted in prizes being won by T. C. Dawson 31, and T. H. Dawson 30. • Stewart's scores ill: tho- professional match on Friday and Saturday were: 82; 85,76, 84: total, 327.