FIRST-RATE GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1932, Page 9

FIRST-RATE GOLF

CLOSE FINAL

MIRAMAR CHAMPIONSHIP

Against a wind that was almost a

gale, h'rsl-rato golf was seen iv the tirst eighteen holes of the 315-holo final of the Mirnuuu- New Year ..championship played this morning between H. A. Black and 13. M. Silk. Barely arc finals so closely contested. Black was 1 up at lunch, but it was- ■ anybody's game, a hole and hole contest with plenty of interest and somo tine holes.. Black was uncannily .accurate with long putts, of which he sank four or five, and lie missed nothing on or round the greens. Silk was perhaps more reliable, with his irons in tho wind, but ho had lost the touch .of his mashie, and putted not so -\vclJ as usual.

Silk drove, into tlio second, green ut tlio first-,, and Black took the hole in 4. Black was three-quarter, stymied at the second, and the ball hit tho back of the hole and turned away, the hole being halved in 5. Silk drove out of bounds at the third, which Black took in 4-5. At the fourth Black/ too carei'ul with the strong wind at the back, ■was only half-way to the green, and. though he chipped up beautifully, missed the long putt, Silk taking the hole in 3. Black was too strong with his second at the fifth, while. Silk was within four foot of tho pin, but missed the putt, stymieing Black, who had played up from the back of the green. Black tried to screw round, but failed, and the gam« was all square again. Sillc played a- beautiful mashie shot at the short hole, four.-."feet away, while -Black's tee :shot' -lay- 15 foot from the ciip. "Ho sank .the''long curly ;. putt-confidently, and Silk .only halved in 2. Black pushed out his drivo at tho seventeenth into tlio rough, but lay well, and played a "beautiful iron just short of the green. Silk from, two good shots laid his third 10 feet, from tho pin. Black was-through'tho green in !3, and;'sh6rt. with" the return, but sank 1 a 12-footer-for 5. •• Silk overran tho l.holo and missed tho return,'taking' 6. Black's drive, taken by tho cross wind, lay behind thb: bunker near the green. He found the Bunker with the next, I and was only just out in 3, leaving himself a 15-foot putt, which ho sank for a half in 4. Silk wason in 2, and took two putts. Blaelc found the bunker near tho green with his second' at the ninth, while Silk lay near him just off tho green. Black played out',to ivitlim eight feet of tlio cup. Silk also approaching well. Black, missed the putt, and Silk took the hole in 4-5. They were all square 'at tho turn; having gone out in .38 each.

Silk found the rough to the left with his drive at-the tenth, but was on in 3. Black with a fine iron, shot into the wind.was just off the green, and approaching well sank a 'nine-footer for a 4 ".to. Silk's .5, standing.! up. Silk played a beautiful" second to th.? eleventh green, while Black''was .just' short, Silk sinking a six-footer, for "a win 4-5, and squaring the game. Silk's nice tee shot at the twelfth was somo twelve feet past the pin", while Black was forty feet short of tho edge- of tho green. Black was too strong with his next,, but' sank a twelve-footer for-a half- in 3. . Silk played a, fine iron from an awkward spot to the green. Black, playing for a pull up by a low bank, carried it, and his ball went into the bunker by tho second green, Silk taking the hole in v pretty i, and standing 1 up. Black, trying for a low shot against the wintl at- the-fourtcenth,-hit'-'it down a trifle/ but "it rah "air the way to within six feot of" the pin, and he sank the putt for.'2, squaring the game. _ The fifteenth was halved in 4. Silk hit a very long drive at the sixteenth, and had only a short chip to the green in.2. Black's second was too strong and found the rough at the back of the green. His third was well up, but Silk took the hole in 4. and. was 1 up again. Silk duffed his third at tho seventeenth short of the bank, whilo Black was nicely 011 iv 3 and down in 5-6, squaring the match. At tho eighteenth both were shy of tho strong wiud behind them. Silk was short of the green, and.Black was hole high, and wide with their seconds. "Silk was short with his'third and short with his fourth, and took 6, Black getting his 4, and standing 1-up. Black's card-read:- 454452545, 38----453524554, 37; t0ta1,.75. . • Silk's figures were:' 555342644,' 38; 5434444G6, 39; total, 78. At the turn this afternoon Silk was 4 up, having gone out in 33, but Black took the next hole and looks like wiuning the next.