GOLF TOURNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 9

GOLF TOURNEY

THE FOURSOMES

PLEASANT CONDITIONS

Competitors from outside centres confess tha they are baffled by Miramar, where the national golf championships are being played. For the three days of the Open which ended or. Saturday strong northerly winds blew and some of the holes, such as the seventh and fifteenth, were made particularly difficult. Today it was different. The, wind blew from the south and those competitors who had regarded both the seventh and fifteenth as traps found they could reach both easily in two shots.

The weather was fine and the breeze, though chilly, was only slight. Consequently things were pleasant for what has always been regarded as the "lazy day" of the tournament, the playing of amateur and professional, foursomes.

The amateurs were first out today r and at lunch time the best cards, had ; been returned by R. H.,Glading; and) i P. G. F. Smith, and P. Quinn and R,j : G. Holland, each combination scoring • 74. W. B. Reilly and I. A. Ewen were • next with 75, find J. D. Nash.and P. s Francis had a 76. J. P. Hornabrook, I the Open. champion, was partnered as ■ usual by B. M. Silk. Two such re- ■ nowned players, should have produced sensational ;scoring, but they have ' never done particularly, well in their combination and this morning both i made costly errors. Their score was .'77.. . . ■ - A i The professionals began later and A. Murray and A. J. Shaw struck form early, covering the first nine in 3.4. Two ' rounds are being played. '■' r It was left to the professionals to >' provide the high lights of the mornl ing play. The hot combination of. i Shaw and Murray, who had shaped sp I well on the first nine,; continued to l play well coming home, and their ' round of 70 represented 'fine play. They might have completed the round in several strokes less but for one or two missed putts. On' the eleventh, for instance, they just missed a putt for an eagle 3. But s's on the fourteenth and seventeenth were expenr sive. / A little later A. E. Guy and J. Weir came in with a. similar score. The. two played like a book over the first nine, which' they scored in the fine total of 32. But again the second half was expensive, and a 5 at the' eighteenth, where an easy short putt ; was missed, and a couple of other greens where- they missed putts brought their total for the half to 38. 1 N. Fuller and G. Watt, with 74, and ■ J, A. Clements and R. Jackson, with . 75, were next best. Reilly and Ewen made a great effort to equal Smith's and Glading's score : when they came in at 2.45. Their round was a 73, which left them one ■ stroke behind Smith and Glading. A < string of 454 at the fourth, fifth, and sixth against the par of 343 ruined their chances. '< The following were cards handed in ; in the first round:— AMATEUR. : P. Quinn and R. G. Holland 74 P. G. F. Smith -/dR. Glading .. 74 W. B. Reilly and I. A. Ewen 75 J. D. Nash and P. F. Francis 76 J. P. Hornabrook and B. M. Silk 77 D. H. Graham and D. C. Collins .. 77 A. R. Kitto and R. F. Kitto 78 A. T. Clelland and B. W. Caulton 78 G. A. Ussher and J. Shelly 78 J. P. Colwill and H. H. McLean .. 78 H. J. Longstaff and J. B. bParker 80 R. B. Cameron and E. Henderson 80 C. F. Shadick and L. A. Watson .. 80 J. L. Black and M. R. Moore .... 80 I. B. Cromb arid E. J. Pumphrey . 80 H. A. Black and A. E. Donoghue .. 80 F. W. Dixon and F. B. Kerr ..'.. 81 J. B. Tunnell and M. Quinn 81 G. P. Roberts and J. P. Mortland 81 C. G. Swinburne and H. D. Gyles 81 F. W. Huggins and J. M Hussey .. 81 E. J. Moriarty and E. F. Butler .. 81 E. G. Fletcher and W. A. Robertson 81 A. G. Sime and J. A. McDougall 82 J. Jeffery and B. Kiernan 82 D. L. Irwin and J. A. Johnston . . 82 A. H. Boyd and D. C. Bennie ... 82 H. A. Hansen and R. G. Hayward 83 K. Glendinning and J. Goss 83 W. J. Davidge and R. B. Carr 84 E. S. Thomson and W. H. Dillicar- 86 K. J. S. Smith and L. J. Moorhouse 87 J. W. Morrison and D. B. Stratmore 87 ; C. J. Hayes and Alex. Hood .... 88 i T. Gibson and R. F. Thrush 89 i PROFESSIONAL. Alex. Murray and A. J. Shaw 70 ' A E. Guy and J. Weir 70 N. H. .Fuller and George Watt .. 74 ( jJ. A. Clements and R. Jackson A: ' 75', IJ. Lambie .and A. H. Dyke ...... 76 « W Allbon and C. C. Clements .. 77 , B.J. Smith, jun., and E. S. Douglas 77 j R. C. Butters and B. Stratmore .. 78 i T. S. Galloway and James Gallo- _ way 78 J. D. Mcintosh and A. C. Sheriff ' 80 1 H. R. Blair and G. W. Melvin .... 82 j B. J. Smith, sen., and K. C. \ Williams A........ 84 j F. G. Bryant and P. E. 'Maughan. . 84 1 James Watt and John Watt .... 85 i Lindsay Ross and D. M. Boyd .... 88 I