BRINSDEN'S GOLF TITLE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 202, 11 September 1937, Page 8

BRINSDEN'S GOLF TITLE

■ — af ■ H.B. Amateur Championship Decided - CROSSE BEATEN, 3 and 1. The Hawke's Bay amateur golf championship fiiial was played yesterday at Waiohiki between H. D. Brihsden, Titirangi, Auckland, and H. E. Crosse, Napier, the former winuing 011 the 35tli green by 3 up and 3 to play. After luncheon, the finalists hit off promptly for the eecond round, and were followcd by a moderate gallerv, whieh, as tlie game progressed, increased to slightly over a hundred, the majority being women. Brinsden, who was two up on the morniug round, had the honour by virtue of winning the 18th hole in the morning. Botli played well-placed shots to open, Brinsden just failing to reach tho green with liis mashie seeond. Orosso played a littlc strong to run slightly througJi, but field the advantage as the hole was in that quarter. Brinsden ran up a little wide and failed to hole his next. Crosse two-putted to take the hole 4 to 5. Brinsden one up. Crosse led off for the 20th with a fine drive to clear the terrace. Brinsden played a low ball slightly pulled and was lucky to find the opening and run well up te the top fairway, only to land iu a banker with his pitch shot. Crosse landed on the green to run olf ihe back again. Brinsden was short out of the bunker. Crosse went past the piu with his run-up. Two putts each for the hole to be halved in fives. At the 21st, Narrowneck, botli got good drives of equal length. Brinsden found the green with a beautiful brassie shot, but Crosse was a little short of the green to the left. He was short with his run-up, and inissing the next 4 conceded the hole, five to four. Brinsden again two up. At tlie short Riverside, Brinsden was just short of the green with his iron tee-shot, while Crosse pushed his out to find the top of "the terrace opposite the green. He played a nieely-judged pitch to lie handy, but took two putts. Brinsden was too strong with his pifceb and two-putted to halve the hole in fours. Two good drives through the poplars opened up the 23rd, Crosse finding the fairway below tlie terrace, and Brinsden remaining on top to the right to reach the green with a fine shot for his next. Crosse was again a little short of the

green to be past the pin with his runup. Two putts each followed. Brinsden 's 4 to 5, to increase his lead to 3 up. Two equal drives for the 24th, with Crosse finding the green with his mashie, but Brinsden was ten yards off the green to the right to be short with hiis pitch. He just failed to hole a 25-foot for a half by an inch. Crosse two-putted to take the hole, four to five. Brinsden two up. At the short 25th both pushed out to the right to lie a few yards off the green. Brinsden was again short with his pitch to lie his putt dead. CrUsse ran up well to hole out in three and take the hole, 3 to 4. Brinsden 1 up. Two good drives led off for the 26th, with Crosse short of the green by 30 yards, and Brinsden just througn ou the bank with a good brassie seeond. Crosse fluffed his pitch and overran the hole with his run-up to just miss an eight-foot putt. Brinsden was past the hole with his run-in, and holing his next 4 to 6 was again two up. Two equal drives to the 27th. 'Brinsden lay on the slope below the green, and Crosse near the fence to the right, for their seconds. Both were on with their thirds. Each taking two putts a half in fives Tesulted.

At the 28th two equal drives. Crosse was just short of the green and Brinsden found the bunker on the right with their seconds. Brinsden was nicely out ou to the green and Crosse was also on. Both two-putted for a half in five. A Half in Sixes. Both got good drives at tho 29th. Crossoe got a nico straiglit seeond, but Brinsylen was on thc left of the fairway to find two bunkers between him and the green. He played boldly to carry bunkers and also the green to reach the rough at the back. Crosse pitched nicely to the green to run right through and trieklo over the bank bunker. Brinsden was sliort with his pitch and still remaincd in the rough, but found the green with the next. Crosse overshot the hole with his recovery and two-putted to Brinsden 's one — a half in sixes. At the 30th (The Piggeries) Crosse had tlie longor drive and more in the centre. Biinsueii was noarer thc boundary fencc, but his socond was witliiu ten fcct of tho pin. Crosse took the

ground heavily and landed below the terrace, but was lying dead with- his third, and taking one putt to Brinsden 's two halved the hole in four. Two nice driyes and seconds saw both players on the 31st green, with Crosse 25 feet from the pin and Brinsden 20 feet away. Two putts by Brinsden to Crosse 's three for the former to win 4 to 5 and stand 3 up with four to play. At the short 32nd Crosse found the green 25 feet from the pin, with Brinsden 40 ' feet away, just off the left edge. The latter rau up tsplendidly to lie dead. Crosse holed out in three to halve the hole. Two well-placed drives opened up the 33rd, for Brinsden to lie just off the green for his seeond. Crosse, however, topped his and left himself a 100-yard approach shot. He found the green nicely, while Brinsden was short of the pin by 15 feet. Two putts each and a-half in fives for Brinsden to stand dormy three. At the thirty-fourth, again two equal drives aud seconds with Crosse on with liis third. Brinsden fluffed his approach and was short with his run-up, and also his first putt for Cross to win the hole by 4 to 6. Brinsden dormy two. The end carae at the thirty-fifth when Crosse 's tee shot, landing on the green, ran off at the back, yhile Brinsden 's stayed on. Crosse, in trying for the hole with his recovery shot, ran past and left himself with an eight-faat putt to halve, and just failed to accomplish it. Brinsden made no aiistake and was down in three to take the game and the championship by three up and one to play. Figures Not So Good

The figures for the seeond round were not so good as in the first. Brinsden was out in 40 to Crosse 's 41 and both took 36 for the last eight holes. The driving was uniformly good, from 200 to 250 yards, with Brinsden just shading Crosse for length by a few yards in the majority of tho holes. In only two cases were the drives mishit in tho whole 35 lioles, aud tlien at short lioles where recovery was simple. Brinsden won the seeond hole of tlie match and was four up after the ninth, wliieli Crosse again reduced to one up, but at uo stage could ho quite ger square. The game fiuctuated between oue and three up in Brinsden 's favour I for the remainder of the game. Brinsden lield Crosse around and on the greens, where the latter, on too many occasions, left himself with a finisliing putt of yards to Brinsden 's oue of feet. CANDIAN FOURSOME A Canadian foursome played during the apernoon was won by D. H. Graharn and II. G, Carver (Feilding), with a [nett 66. ■ .