GOLF

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1932, Page 5

GOLF

NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIPS,

RESULTS OF YESTERDAY’S PLAY

(Per Press Associations— Copyright.)

WELLINGTON, November 9

The of the results of the day to-day in the Amateur Chairipionehip, third round, are: Wagg heat Silk 9 and 7. Parker beat Whyte 1 up. Dr. Ross 'beat ‘Sime at the 40th. hole. A. T). S. Duncan heat B. J. Smith j.itnr. at the 38th. Oook beat Goss at the 37th. Horton beat H. A. Black 3 and 2. J. F. Black beat Reilly 8 and 7.

Collins beat Fryer 6 and 5. The Amateur Bogey Handicap was won by W. E. C. Gregory 3 up. P. W. Blundell was second with 1 up. A. H. Warren and V. A. Ward 1 returned cards of all square. The Ross-Sime match provided wonderful golf. Ross set out in the afternoon two up. Sime .squared the seventh, and he was two up at the ninth, partly due to Ross’ putting lapses on the greens, but mainly to his own brilliance. He went to three up at the tenth by a brilliant chip, which found the eup. vfrom a hunker for a three. The thirteenth was halved in lives, the fourteenth in threes, the fifteenth in fours, both missing short putts.

Ross squared the match at the sixteenth, where Sime-’s drive was bunkered. The last two were halved in the regulation figures, and four extra holes were required to decide the issue. The first was halved in bogey fours, the second in fives. Here the bogey is four. Both tee shots at a .short third were too strong. Sime sank an eight footer for a half in three. At the fourth both seconds were short. The approaches were good, hut pime missed a five foot putt, and Ross holed in four, thus ending a classic struggle.