GOLF NOTES.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 664, 2 September 1921, Page 6

GOLF NOTES.

SEitlZ-FIftlAL OF CHAMPIONSHIP.

LUSK BEATS BINNEY

RAINGER DEFEATS COLBECK

Weather conditions were ideal on Saturday, August 20, for the semifinal of the club championship of the Auckland Golf Club, which was played at the Middlemore links, Mangere. The course a wsin fine order, the fairways in particular being very good. ‘ “ F. G. Binney, in his match against If. B. Lusk, gave the present champion a much closer game than was expected. Binney won the first two holes, and had a great opportunity tc take the third, but bad putting lost him the hole. He won the fourth with a nicely played 4, but lost the fifth, sixth andi»nintfi, which left him down at the turn. Both players took 43 to go out. Binney made the match all square at the next hole, where he got a 3 to Lusk’s 4. At the eleventh, Lusk 'drove to within a yard of the sand bunker, and laying his approach dead, won the hole with a 3 to Birmey’s 4, making Lusi; one up. The twelfth and thirteenth were halved in 5 and 4 respectively. At the fourteenth Binney holed a wellplayed 4 to Lusk’s 5, which made the match all square. Both got good drives to the fifteenth, but Binney’s bali just found the rough, and Lusk, making no mistakes, won the hole in 5. The latter took the sixteenth with a four, and the seventeenth being halved in 5, Lusk won the game 2 up and 1 to play. R. Rainger won the game against W. B. Colbeck, 3 up and 2 to play. Colbeck did not play up to form, and his short game showing some weaknesses, especially his putting, which lost him several apparently easy halves. Rainger played a very steady game, going out in 41 and home in 40. On Saturday's play he would have been a very hard man to beat. Rainger won the first hole 4 to 5, and the second and third were halved in 5. Colbeck missed an easy putt for a half at the fourth, but won. the fifth with a well-played 4—Rainger 1 up. The sixth was halved in 4, but Rainger increased , his lead at the next with a 3 to Colbeck’s 4. The eighth was halved in 4, the ninth in 6. and the tenth in 4. Colbeck won the eleventh with a 4, which made him one down. Both made mistakes at the twelfth, which was halved in 5. Rainger won the thirteenth and fourteenth with a 4 at each-, Colbeck’s putting at both these holes being; weak. Rainger missed his drive at the fifteenth, and lost the hole to Colbeck, who played a good 4. Rainger made no mistake about the sixteenth, and, holing out in 4, won the game 3 and 2.