AUSTRALIAN GOLFERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 17, 13 October 1937, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN GOLFERS

-PreBs A8sociation.)

Appearance at Wellington Tournament WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP ;

(By Telograpfa-

T "WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Wellington women 's provincial golf championship opened at Heretaunga to-day in fine weather. The course was in perfect order. The large entry was auginented by members of the visiting Australiau team, all " of whom qualified to play off in the championship. The best six scores in the Wellington provincial championship were: — . Miss Y. Fleming (ChCh.) 81—75—156 Miss B. Cheney ' (Aust.) 77—84—161 Mrs. S. Morpeth (Aust.) . 81—82—163 Miss E. Hutton (Aust.) . 78—85—163 Miss H. Buchanan (ChCh) 82—81 — 163 Miss B. Kernot (Aust.) . 85—79—164 Miss S. Tolhurst (166) and Miss Wray (170) both of Australia, also qualified. Miss Fleming and Miss Kernot went round in the morning, the former play|ing steadily to get out in 42 and back in 39. She maintained her steadinoss in the afternoon and with Miss Hutton 'returned cards of 37 and 38. Miss Cheney went out in, 41 in the morning and did a good home journey of, 36. She was not so steady in the afternoon, howcver, when she took seven more strokes to cover the course. Mrs. Morpeth and Misses Hutton and Buchanan played consistently. The former seemed to pick up the pace oi' 'the greens better than Miss Hutton. The latter, however, played inspired ,gol£ in the morning, reaching the turn in 34, three under bogey, but had a stormy passage home, which cost her 44. ' Miss Buchanan handled her clubs stylishly all day and covered the course in 82 in the morning and a stroke • better in the afternoon. Miss Wray did a steady 85 iu the morning and the same in tlie afternoon. Miss Kernot could not gauge the strength of the greens in the morning taking 40 for the outward journey and , returning in 45. She improved in the afternoon and went round in 79. " There 's no excuse for playing -such bad golf on such perfect links," she said. "It's simply that I can't play to-day." The trophy for the best gross score in the qualifying rounds went to Mis3 Fleming. The teams mateh was won by Christchurch (Misses Fleming and Buchanan, Mrs. McKillop and Miss E. White Parsons) with an aggregate of 333. ; Wellington B was next with 345.