BRITISH AMATEUR

Evening Post, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 10

BRITISH AMATEUR

GOLF AT ST. ANDREWS

FIFTH AND SIXTH ROUNDS

PROGRESS OF EERRIER

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(Received May 29, 8 a.m.)

LONDON, May 28.

Genial sunshine and a light breeze favoured players in the fifth and sixth rounds of the British^ amateur golf championship.

In the fifth round, Ferrier beat C. W. Timmis, 1 up; Cameron (Conn.) beat H. G. McCallum, 1 up; Ewing beat Wethered, 2 up; Thomson beat Brown, 6 and 4; Jamieson beat Dr. Scroggie, 3 and 2; Martin beat Lind,say at the 21st; Middleton beat Arana (Spain), 2 and 1; Walker beat Turnbull, 5 and 3; Peters beat Bentley, 2 and 1; Tolley beat Aitken,' 5 and 4; Dykes beat McKinlay, 2 and 1; Mac- ! Donald beat Lyle, 2 and 1; Kyle beat Ridson, 2 and 1; Haggard beat Fraser Lee, 3 and 2; Hill beat A. S. Anderson, 2 up, Sweeny beat Storey, 2 and 1. . ■ . In the sixth round Ferrier beat Sweeny, at the 21st; Hill beat Haggard, 2 and 1; Dykes beat Macdonald, 3 and 2; Ewing beat Cameron, 5 and 4; Martin beat Middleton, 3 and 2; Thomson meat Jameson, 1 up; Peters beat R. S. Walker, 2 up; Tolley beat Kyle, 2 and The first surprise of the day was Wethered's downfall at the hands of the Irishman Cecil Ewing. Both drove a prodigious length but when 1 -up with five to play Wethered developed a disastrous hook whereas Ewing's long approach play was immaculate. The English champion Bentley was 2 down at the turn against Peters. Ha putted brilliantly on the homeward journey, but his second shot landed in the roadway at the seventeenth and cost- him the match. Both Ferrier and Timmis played a little wildly in their match. Ferrier turned 1 up after going out in 37, his figures being 545444434. Timmis took üB. Ferrier was 2 up at the tenth but Timmis squared the match at the thirteenth, where he holed a 20-yarder for a3. Ferrier became dormie 2. At the seventeenth he played a wild second which ran through the green, acoss the road, and jumped the railway wall Timmis won the hole easily. The last hole was halved. The match was not notable for quality.- Ferrier's homeZ a£hHZ'? te Was 39< the figures hehl S 444444474, g lv ing him an aggregate of 'o. limmis had an aggregate of 75. PERKIER IN HARD FIGHT. The Ferrier-Sweeny match attracted a large gallery. The first four holes were halved. Ferrier's short ■ game was faulty. Sweeny twice visited the rough. Ferrier won the fifth. Sweeny picking up after failing to get out of a bunker. Ferrier turned 1 up. The 'out-journey scores were: Ferrier 454554434—53, Sweeny 454574-134—40. i Ferrier was too strong with -his second shots at the tsnfh and eleventh and Sweeny won both holes and took the lead. Ferrier, however, "squared the match at ■ lha twelfth with a! birdie 3 and took the lead, again at the Ihirtacenth, where Sweeny was in the rough. The next' two holes were halved. The Australian won the sixteenth, to become dormie 2. Then at the dog-leg seventeenth fie tried to cut offi the comer and dreve into the! railway sheds. He teed up again, and. i again landed out of bounds. His third was all right but Sweeny's drive "was down the fairway arid when Sweeny played a safe second Ferrier picked up. He would probably have taken Ferrier hit a colossal tee shot to the eighteenth, outdistancing the American by 40 yards, but Sweeny had the better approach, landing three yards from the hole. He sank the putt for a 3, squaring the match. The homeward scores .were: Ferrier 443454494 41. Sweeny 435454553—38. - The nineteenth and twentieth were halved in par figures but the Australian won at the twenty-first when he sank a long putt. . , ■ i ■ Ferrier' is the. only overseas golfer remaining in, the others being three Englishmen, one Scot, and one Irishman. He meets Dykes intiie quarterfinal tomorrow. The best golf today was played by I Hector Thomson. Ewing, also, con- j j tinues to display sensational form. j Thomson is now favourite for the j title, with Tolley and Ferrier equal j ias second fancies. Tolley's colossal driving today thrilled the spectators.! He hit some shots which, aided by the "j wind, were 340 yards long. Such mighty hitting has not previously be^'i ■seen at St. Andrews. *: '