GOLFING

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1929, Page 6

GOLFING

RYAN BEATS MORPETH

(Australian Press. Association)

ADELAIDE, August 29

Sloan Morpeth (N.Z.) lost the amateur golf .championship to Ryan two up and one lo play. Morpetlrv s not quite up to his recent brilliance, and was unlucky with his putting. Morpeth won the first three '-'los. by steady play, but was showing tendency to wander. The pair, at the turn, were thirtynine each. Morpeth was out of bounds at the tenth, and took seven to hole out, and he lost the hole. He had an unplayable lie in a crater in the next. Ryan got an excellent two at the sixteenth. .Morpeth holed in four at the seventeenth, his 500 yards favourite hole. They were square at the end of the morning.

Ip the afternoon, Ryan was one up at the turn. Morpeth’s putting was unlucky. He took six at the twentyseventh. Ryan was one up at the turn, lie got a perfect four at with an accurate 20-foot putt. At the twenty-ninth Morpeth got a birdie three, and t' e match was squared. Morpeth hit the back of the tin with a chip shot at the next, narrowly missing a three. On the next they were par with four. Two holes later, Rvan sank an 18footer for two, making him dormy two. Approaching strongly at the thirty-fifth, Morpeth putted from the hank over 15 yards, and stopped three feet short of the hole, which was halved with a birdie four.