PUTTS AND

NZ Truth, Issue 1191, 27 September 1928, Page 16

PUTTS AND

Ladies' Golf Title ■• Prospects (From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) Middlemore links will be a blaze of color this week. The ladies will decide who will be champion of the year. CONTINUAL rain this last three weeks has tended to make the course soft, and In the event of a continuation of ■ moisture the scoring will be kept high. There is not a large entry m the main event, yet the cream of ladies' golf will play. Mrs. Collinson, who Is -defending her title, has been playing well recently, her latest win being m the Southern Hawkes Bay tournament. A most steady player she should be suited by the Auckland links, as conditions there are. similar to her home course and she is going to fight, hard to retain the cup. Miss Culling is the local hope and her territorial knowledge should be of great help to her. ; /Middlemore Is trjeky without It and a player has to play to the left of the pin m numerous holes to play the hole correctly. Miss Culling is playing m good style at present and she may again figure m the final. Miss Upham will battle for Wellington, as will also Miss Gambrill and on recent form the younger player will have to do better to have a chance. . Miss McCrystall will be Canterbury's hope and good judges say she will go to the final. She is playing extremely well at present and has improved her game this year. OLIVER KAY'S CHANCE An early arrival on the course was • Miss Kay fresh from her triumphs m Australia. She has been pottering abound "getting distances" and though she has had two scores m the low eighties, she has not been worrying much about figures' in' practice. Playing a round with Mrs. . Hosklngs, the Titirangi champion, the Dunedin girl was out-driven, but her short game was the better of the two. With her experience and past perfornmhees, form says Miss Kay should win and Jf she has not gone stale after her strenuous month m Sydney, then it Is fcoingr to take something near par - to defeat her. Bobby Jones knocked at the door for many years before- he wop his first open, then went on to win all the great honors.. Miss Kay has been Jn the same street and next week may be the time when the door will be opened. ■ -. . ■ H. B. Luak has: just ended a nice winter season. His victories include the Auckland provincial championship, the . Rotorua championship and the Hawkes Bay honor. This wonderful player, m spite of being -well into the veteran stage, goes on winning against all-comers. His records should make him a serious consideration for a place In the next Kirk— Windeyer Cup team. • , •"One could well say a golfer is not a golfer until he has defeated H. B. Lusk ' m a championship match. That, to "Truth," is the eighteen- carat stamp of a golfer. E. S. Douglas has decided to go to , Dunedin for the "open." He has had little play since arriving here, his whole time recently having been booked up with lessons. However,; a week's practice should do wonders.