WEEKEND PLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 3

WEEKEND PLAY

INTER-CLUB MATCHES

Inter-club matches, Mary Alward con-1 tests, and club championship play, made j the weekend a busy one in golf; WELLINGTON v. HUTT. Hutt and Wellington drew in au interclub match. The Wellington A team was victorious by 8 games to 4, but the Hutt B team won by the same figures. The following are the details, Wellington players first mentioned in each case:— A Teams at Hutt. D. O. Whyte beat Rana Wagg, 2 up. J. D. G. Duncan beat W. K. Cook,. 2: E. S. Toogood beat W. G. Fisher, 6. and 5." . ■■ \ G. T. Daws'on lost'to W. G. Home, 9 and 7. 0. A. Mills beat C. N. Armstrong, 2; and ]. E. Page beat J. Shelly, 6 and 4. J.'-W. Ward beat H. K. Adamson, 1 up. E D. Blundell beat J. Flanagan, 3 and 2. M. Blundell lost to S. Hogg. 3 and 2. K. D. Duncan lost to I. A. H. Symes, " D. Young beat C. M. Watt, 3 aiid 2. DA Webster lost to D. G. Johnston, 2 and 1. ' B Teams at Heretaunga. R. A. Whyte lost to L. C. Hemery, 3 and 2; V. A. Ward lost to D. McCaskell, 2 and 1; C. Sinclair-Thomson beat H. W. Cormack, 4 and 3; A. de, B. Brandon lost to A. E. Park, i and 3; J. F. Bristed lost to D. J. White, 3-and 2; Q. F. AVilson lost to J. A. Ronald, 3 and 2; E. D. Goodwin lost to R. D. Wraight, 6 and 4; ,R. Welton-Hogg beat L. R. Gilmour, 3 and 2; T. R. M. Hanna beat W. 11. Lees, jun., 3 and 2; F_ A. L. Hunt lost to G. A. H. Field, 2 and 1; H. Manning beat E. Partridge, 4 and 2; C. Howden lost to R. Adams, 3 and 2. NOTES ON PLAY. It was ideal golfing'weather, but there were no sensational scores.. A. D. S. Duncan is in Rotbrua, his place being taken by Whyte. '. . . While both players did occasional good holes, the golf in the match between Whyte and Wagg was not of the best. Wagg was troubled with a.hobk, which betrayed him into a round/of 85. Whyte, has played little golf lately, but would have broken his score of 80 comfortably but for faulty work on short putts, and he was once stymied. Whyte won the first three holes in 4, 5, 3, Wagg going out of bounds at the first. The next was halved in natty 4's. [ Wagg's fine approach gave him the fifth ill 4. Neat 4's were carded at the sixth. Whyte miss-hit his tee shot at the next, and Wagg's second landed in the rough, a half in s's ensuing. From a long straight drive at the eighth, Whyte hooked his iron second behind the ninth tee, and Wagg, from two nice shots, approached dead, and took the hole in 4. Taking the ninth iv 4, ho turned all square, and, lying almost in the narrow entrance to the tenth green in 2, won that also in 4, and was 1 up. The water hole was halved in B's. Wagg missed his three-footer for a 4 at the twelfth, and stymied Whyte, who was practically dead, and a half in s's resulted. Whyte sank a twenty-footer for a half in four at.the next. Wagg was bunkered with his second at the 'fourteenth, and WJiyte took that hole in 4, and the next, where Wagg hooked his drive into the rough, hit his second only twenty yards into another hairy place, was short with his next., and put hie fourth in the bunker, taking 7 to Whyte's 5. The one-shot sixteenth was ingloriouslyi halved in s's. Whyte pushed out his ''tee shot near the fence, into waving whins, barely got out in 2, and reached the green in 3. Wagg hooked into the bunker and was too strong out. The seventeenth was halved in 5, both seconds finding trouble. With Whyte dormie 1, Wagg hooked both drive and second, the latter into the rough, and Whyte, on in two beautiful shots, got his 4 and the match, coining back in 40 to Wagg's 44. Wagg announced on Saturday- morning that he will not contest his national title at Auckland. ■~■■'. Cook was.2.up at the £ourteenth,*but Duncan took the nest four holes in 4, 4, 3, 4. ' Toogood was 'out in. 39, and back in 40. and was 4 up at the turn. Page played his "usual steady game, and had the better of his match with Shelly, whose . unusual length from the tee was not always allied with uefcuracy.