GOLFING.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1928, Page 1

GOLFING.

WELLINGTON TOURNAMENT. TO MEET AUSTRALIANS. By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright. WELLINGTON. Jan. 28. The semi-finals and finals in the champinships tournament arranged in connection with the contest for the Kirk-Wihdeyer Cup, were completed to-day the championships being won by Dr Kenneth Ross (Ralmacewan), who defeated another South Islander, Donald Grant (Shirley) by four and three.

The semi-finals were remarkable in that the games went well beyond the eighteenth. Dr Ross defeated A. G. Sime (Westport) at the 22nd., and Donald Grant accounting for the holder of the amateur title, Sloan Morpeth, at the 23rd green. Conditions for golfing were excellent. there being a complete, absence of wind. Following the completion of the championships, it was announced that Dr Ross and Donald Grant would bo the other two members of the New Zealand team to meet Australia in the contest for the Kirk-Windeyer Cup, on Monday. Sloan Morpeth and T. 11. Horton having been selected some considerable time ago. The order of the team is; Sloan Morpeth. Dr Ross, T. Tl. Horton, and Donald Grant. AY. R, Dobson (Concord) who is first emergency for the Australian team, will replace Dr Sydney Jones in the team to meet New Zealand. ROSS AL SIME. By far the better golf seen in the semi-finals was that played by the two South Islanders, Dr Kenneth Ross (Ralmacewan) and A. G. Sime (Westport), the game going to the 22nd green before l a decision was reached. From the start to the finish, these two provided a hole and hole struggle, and at no time during the match were the players separated by more than two holes. At the short sixth, Boss holed out for a. beautifully played two to bis opponent’s three. Ross Turned two up. Sime recovered a hole at the fourteenth, leaving him one down. Sime played two fine gallery shots at the fifteenth. His tee shot landed in the rough of the hillside, obscuring the green from view. AA r ith his masliic he played to within eight leet of the pin and with his next stroke sank the uphill putt to win in three. Sime won the seventeenth in three and squared the game. AA'ell played fours halved the eighteenth and the nineteenth. Sime just lipping the hole for a three at the latter. The twentieth and twenty-first were halved for lour and five respectively. The end came at the twenty-second, where Dr Ross took the hole in three to four, to. win the hole, and with it the match, ono up. Tt was at this hole that Sime pushed his iron shot into a bunker and experienced difficulty in getting out owing to the ball landing behind a, sitone (the only stone in the bunker). Ross overran the hole with Ill's second, but more than redeemed himself by sinking a nine-foot putt, this winning the match.