GOLFING

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1929, Page 3

GOLFING

KIRK-WINIjEYER oup. FOURSOMES RESULTS. (Aristfalian Presb Association) MELBOURNE,' August 12. Thb Kifk-Wirideyer Golf Cup foursorbes w’efb played at the Metropolitan Links toMay Ift the fifst rdiindj Rdss arid Horton (fteri f Zeiilarid) Were % sijriare with App'erlev ail'd Friwcdtt '(New South Wales).’ Mofipeth arid BI rick (New Zcrilaiid) wefe twtt ftji oil M'drritoii ail'd Hrirris'oh (New iSbrith Wales). In the second round, Fawcett and Apperley (N.S.W.) defeated Ross rind Horton, five up. Morrison and Harrison defeated Morpeth and Black, one up. New South Wales is how leading for the cup. DETAILS OF THE PLAY. . k : MELBOURNE, August 12. At the golf contest there was dull weather for the morriirig play. Dr Jtoss and Horton were throie down at the turn .of the first round, this being due to Apperley’s accuracy with long putts. Horton ivris driving well, arid he took the twelfth and thirteenth holes. A Weak putt at the seventeenth, hole lost an opportunity to square the match, but Ross, with a great second, enabled New Zealand to square at the eighteenth. The approximate figures were: New Zealanders 79, New South Wales 81. Morpeth and Black in their morning game played 'excellently. Both drove long and sure, and they were out in 41, or one stroke less than New South Wales. At the seventh hole, Black’s drive was lying against the ’fence, and it was played out left-handed by Morpeth. At the eleventh hole, Morpeth led Harrison’s drive by fifty yards, but it was not till the sixteenth hole that the 'New Zealanders got one up, when Morpeth left Black a four-foot putt. Morpeth’s approach was too stro.ug ’aft the eighteenth, but .Morrison missed a two-foot putt, leriving the New Zealanders two up. The approximate, figures were: New Zealanders 78, New Soilth Wales ,82. < RAIN tN AFTERNOON.

After lunch, drizzling rain fell. Morpeth was bunkered iii the left oorrier at the nineteenth, arid Black was short. Neiv South Wales scpiarqd witli 1 a four. Morpeth sank a twelve-foo'ter to win the twenty-sixth with a birdie three, and at the twen-ty-seventh he got a twenty-footer for a, birdie four. New Zealand wfis three up 'at the turn, but New South Wales played magnificerifcly at the finish, showing a great sureness in approach, whilst New Zealand failed on the wfet greeris, to firiish one down.

In the other game, Fawcett and Apperly lost tlie nineteenth to New Zealand, where - Horton putted well. New Sdiith Wales took .'the twentyfourth, and at the twenty-seventh Horton was in a cross bunker, the hqie taking six. jTliis made New Zealand oiie down. Fawcett was ijn rare form, and Os Ajpperley was putting well, their play left little doubt ns to the concluding holes, they winning five up.

During the evening the rain increased. The New Zealanders did hot show to advantage.

The singles will !be played to-mor-row, and tlie aggregate wins conclude the Cup event. ADELAIDE, August 12.

Leigh Winsor, a former South Australian amateur golf champion, and the runner-up for the last three years, has Regained the title by defeating A. F. Dye, on 6 up. after being tivo down three holes from home.