GOLF.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1921, Page 3

GOLF.

tUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. Kirkwood’s second round was played in warm sunshine and was notable for its brilliancy, the first nine of which took only thirty-four, but homewards he threw away half a dozen strokes, and he took forty. His figures outward are:—s, 5,3, 4,5, 3,4, 2, 3. Homewards he took 4,5, 4,5, 4,5, 4‘, 5, 4. At first Kirkwood began badly. He sliced a drive off the course near the marquee enclosure and had to have a tent-peg removed in order to play. The second he courageously took the wood and recovered finely. Homewards he played with magnificent steadiness, driving splendidly, particularly at the sixteenth, where he took the lire for his drive along the railway trusting to the wind to bring it over. At the seventeenth (465 yards) he had a glorious second with Baffy and finished three yards from the pin. | LONDON, June 23. | Tho leaders in the first round of the golf championship are: Hutchison 72, Kinch 73, Massey, Duncan, Hagari, Kerrigan 74, Herd, Hunter 75, Kirkwood, Havers, White 76, Vat don 77, Mitchell 78, Bull, Ockden 79, Taylor, East 81. The aggregates for the first two rounds are: Hutchison 147, Ray Barnes (African) 148, Duncan, Herd, Massey, McLean 14, Kinch, Kirkwood, Havers 150. Kirkwood is hardly playing with the complete assurance and confidence which characterised his play in Australia. To-day He had a tendency to heel liis drives and spare his approaches. Nevertheless ho is still well in tho picture, though Australian spectators were somewhat disappointed at Kirkwood’s falling away in the last holes this afternoon. All agreed ho has done marvellously well in bringing Australia to the front in tho golf world. Kirkwood is not worried, and is full of confidence for the last rounds, for which Gassiat (Frenchman) is his partner, j LONDON, Juno 23. | Kirkwood was the earliest to commence the first round of tho championship proper. He did not find his top form for the first nine holes, for which he took thirty nine. Coming home he lnttde Ho mistakes and had the hardest luck thrice, in just missing long putts. He began badly at the first hole and fluffed his second shot into the famous Swilcan Burn. At second lip had hard luck to miss a ten yard putt for three. He had his first had drive at the fourth and sliced off the fair way amongst the hummocks. He recovered well hut socketed an approach. At the sixth he sliced his drive into hunker, but recovered well, but in the result took six. The next th Pee were faultless. KIRKWOOD’S GOLF. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 23 Kirkwood in the second round had the green heat him again at the second where lie almost holed his first putt. At the third, after a perfect drive and approach he holed a four yard putt. The sixth was the next eventual hole, where he holed a putt from outside the green, fully twenty yards. There were great cheers at the shot. His eighth tee shot laid him two yards from the pin and lie holed the putt. Homewards 1 iiis troubles began at the eleventh; An it on shot from the toe swerved into a pothole. He niblicked out at right angles, hut found a corresponding pothole on the left side. A fine four at the long fourteenth was due to a. splen- , did second with his baffy. At the . fifteenth he missed a yard putt for four. At the seventeenth lie had to get a niblick chip over a pothole.