BY ONE MATCH

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 88, 8 January 1935, Page 11

BY ONE MATCH

British Golfers Beat New Zealand PLAY IN FOURSOMES One Win For Each Side The match between the visiting team of British amateur golfers and a team representing the New Zealand Golf Association concluded on the Wellington Golf Club’s links at Heretaunga yesterday morning, when the foursomes were played over IS holes. Each side won one match, which gave the British team a victory by 3J games to 2J, as Britain won the singles on Saturday by two games to one, with one game squared. The standard of play yesterday was not good, as a fairly stiff north-wester-ly wind added to the difficulties of the bricklike greens, which were very fast, and most difficult to stop on. Though the figures were not good, the closeness of the matches made play highly interesting throughout. A. D. S. Duncan and T. H. Horton (New Zealand), played wonderful fighting golf to defeat the Hon. Michael Scott and Jack McLean (Britain), by 1 up, after the Dominion pair had been 5 down at the seventh. I* G. Garnett and T. A. Bourn (Britain), finished up with a 3 and a 4 to defeat B. M. Silk and J. P. Mortland (New Zealand) by 2 up. The weather was again particularly warm. Scott and McLean Begin Well. The Hon. Michael Scott and Jack McLean started off strongly in their match with Arthur Duncan and T. H. Horton in the foursomes. The captains, Scott and Duncan, sent good drives off the first tee. McLean was a trifle strong with his high pitch, which travelled through the green, while Horton’s pulled up 9 feet from the pin. Scott laid his chip 5 feet from the cup, and Duncan’s putt went into the cup, and hopped out again, a half in 4 resulting. McLean got a good drive off the sec- ( ond tee, and Horton pushed his out. Duncan’s brassie second hit the mound of a bunker, and pulled up short. Scott was just short of the green with his iron second, and Horton was also short with his iron third. A beautiful chip by McLean laid his ball dead, and enabled Britain to draw 1 up with 4 to 0. Faulty play was seen at the short third, Scott’s tee shot ran through the green, while Duncan found the pot. bunker to the right. Horton failed to chip out, and the visitors drew 2 up with 4 to 5. The New Zealand pair bad some more bunker practice at the fourth. McLean hit a spanking drive, outdistancing Horton by 50 yards. Duncan’s iron second found the bunker to the right of the green, and Horton was too strong in digging out, his ball travelling through the green into the bunker on the opposite side. Both Scott and McLean were short with their shots, hut when Horton missed a 7-foot putt, the British players led by 3 up. the hole going to them in 5 to 6. A beautiful iron tee shot to the centre of the fifth green enabled Britain to draw 4 up. Duncan was short Off the tee, and missed the 5-foot putt which Horton left him, Britain taking the hole in 3 to 4. Steady play saw the sixth halved in bogey 4. Scott and Duncan hit long drives with the wind off the seventh tee. McLean played a perfect iron second to the centre of the green (444 yards), while Horton pushed his iron eecond out, the ball coming to rest on the mound of the bunker to the right. Duncan chipped to within 10 feet of the pin, but when Horton missed the putt, the hole went to the visitors 'n 4 to 5, and Britain had a commanding lead of 5 up. Steady play against the wind saw the eighth '530 yards) halved In bogey 5. Britain 4 Up at the Turn. A beautiful wooden tec shot by Dunean placed his ball 0 feet from the pin at the ninth. Scott was short, and McLean just managed to chip On to the green. New Zealand got one back with 3 to 4, and the British pair headed for home with the substantial lead of 4 up. Scott and McLean took 37 for the out journey, and Duncan and Horton 42. Both Scott and Duncan were too strong with their mashie seconds at the tenth, but by running down an Sfoot putt Duncan won the hole for New Zealand in 4 to 5. Scott and Duncan hit good drives off the eleventh tee.' McLean’s second was &. trifle strong, and went over the mound at the back of the green. Horton played a magnificent iron second to within 5 feet of the pin. Scott’s third pulled up 7 feet from the pin, and laid McLean a stymie. In attempting to negotiate this, McLean hit the New Zealander’s ball, and knocked it Into the cup for a birdie 3. This reduced Britain’s lead to 2 up.' Horton pushed his drive off the twelfth tee on to the eleventh fairway, but Duncan recovered with a splendid brassie second, which almost found the green. Scott followed up a good drive by his partner by landing his iron second on the green. A perfect approach putt by McLean stymied the New Zealanders, and Duncan, in attempting to get round, hit the other ball. The hole went to the visitors in 4 to 5, and Britain was 3 up again. Both McLean and Horton found bunkers with their seconds near the thirteenth tee. Duncan just chipped out, but Scott made certain of getting out, sending his ball twenty yards beyond the green. McLean made a perfect recovery to within 6 feet of the pin; but Scott missed the putt, and New Zealand took the hole in 5 to 6. Horton found the fourteenth green off the tee, but McLean was short. Scott chipped to ■within 6 feet of the pin, but McLean missed the putt, and the home side took the hole in 3 to 4. Duncan found the green With his tee shot at the short fifteenth, w’hile Scott’s pitch was short, and the ball rdlled back down the bank. To make matters worse for the British pair, they were stymied on the green, and New Zealand drew all square by taking the hole in 3 to 5. “Fun for Your Money.” Horton’s drive off the sixteenth tee hit a tree, and rebounded at right angles. McLean fared worse, however, as he sliced his ball into an impossible lie underneath a big flax bush on the bank of the stream. Scott failed to dig out, and McLean had another try, the ball this time coming out, but trickled back down the bank again. “You get lots of fun, anyhow, for your money here," smilingly remarked Scott, as he took his stance for the fourth attempt to reach the green. The hole went to Duncan and Horton in 4 to 6,

and New Zealand was up for the first tiine in the match. Duncan hit a magnificent drive against the wind off the seventeenth lee, outdistancing Scott by 40 yards. McLean recovered with an iron second to the left of the green Horton sliced bis second and was short to the right. The gallery got a thrill when McLean ran down a putt of 22 feet for a 4, and another gasp of astonishment went up when Horton put down a 14-footer for c half. There was intense excitement ns they proceeded to the eighteenth, Horton and McLean got good drives, and Duncan and Scott played perfect seconds to the green. The regulation two putts were taken to halve the hole in 4, and the New Zealand pair won a tplendid uphill fight by 1 up. Duncan and Horton did the home journey in 35, which gave them 77 for the round, while Scott and McLean took 43 for the run home, making their round 80. A Win for Britain. The feature of the match between L. G. Barnett and T. A. Bourn (Great Britain) and B. M. Silk and J. F. Mortland, which was won by the British pair by 2 up, was the mighty hitting of Garnett. The golf was not of a high standard in this match, the New Zealand pair going out in 40 to their opponents’ 42, to stand I up at the turn. The Englishmen jumped into their stride in the run home, but Silk and Mortland danced to ibe tune, and the game was all square at the sixteenthGarnett drove through the green at the sixteenth off the tee, a hit of more than 286 yards. The Englishmenwfinished very strongly. A magniflcent*ron second by Garnett enabled the visitors to take the seventeenth in 3 to 1, and a drive by Garnett off the eighteenth tee was only 20 yards short of the green. Silk’s second overran the green, and Mortiand duffed his third shot in thick clover. Silk lipped the cup with a beautiful chip, but a good 8-foot putt by Bourn gave the Englishmen the hole in 4 to 5. and the match b.v 2 up. Bourn and Garnett took 35 for the home journey, which gave them 77 for the round, while Silk and Mortland took 40 each way. The British team left by train last night for Auckland, where they catch the Niagara to-day for Honolulu.