CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 4, 27 August 1931, Page 3

CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF

two rounds played MACKNIGHT TAKES THE LAKE HOLE IN EAGLE. BRINSDEN AND GOSS. In excellent golfing weather — there being a slightly overcast sky — with. tbe fairways perfect and the greens putting true, tke first and second rounds of the Rotorua Golf Club's Amateur Open Championship and the Thermal Caoilenge Cup Handicap were played. Bogey handicap matches were also contested in conjuncuon with the two rounds for the cups. Brinsden and Goss, two the foremost golfers, did excellent rounds, tii'3 f m-mer returning in 69 and • both oeating the Colonel whose score stands at 71. Another fine round was that of S. E. Carr in the bogey handicap, wbo went out in 82 and returned in 38, to do a 70. D. Anderson, in his morning round did the 4 last ftve holes m tbrees, wh eh is probably a record. Macknight did a fiulc'e at the Lak'e, 322 yards, by sinking from -t difficult position with his second. There were several otber good scores but many in the cup matches did not return their cards for the bogey match. Following are the results. — CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST ROUND G. Brinsden beat E. Hutchison, 3 and 2. * J. H. Hean beat Barnes-Graham, Jnr., 5 and 4 C. J. Johnson beat H. Troutbeck, 3 and 1. R. C Smith beat Barnes-Graham, Snr., 5 and "4. M. D. Carr beat F. Fryer, 2 and 1. , C. Kusabs beat E. H. Hill, one up at 19tb. Hape beat J. M. Hussey, two up. F. E. Hutchison. beat C. Britton,' 2 and 1. C. Tallis beat H. Bryan, 7 and 6.O'Callaghan beat F. Simpson, 4 and 3. W. Abbott beat Garrard, 2 and 1. G. Powdrell beat L. B. Campbell, 4 and 3. H. B. Luslc beat R. J. Love, 7 and 6. A. H. Nicoll beat H. Tidmarsh, one Up. J. Aruen-Bott beat D. Tatere, 6 and 5 J. Goss beat A. .Walden, 6 arid 5. SECOND ROUND. G. Brinsden b'eat J. H. Hean, 8 and '7. C. J. Johnson beat R. C. Smitb, 4 and 3. C. Kusabs beat M. D. Carr, one up. F. C. Hutchison beat Hape, 2 and 1. G. TaUis beat O'Callaghan, one up > on 19th. W. Abboufc beat S. Powdrell, two up. H. B. Lusk beat A. H. N.coll, 5 and 4. J. G-ss beat J. Ard.n-Bott, 4 and 3. THERMAL CUP FIRST ROUND. J. Harrison beat C. R. Boyes, 2 and 1. G. S. Fry beat W B. Bendall, 3 and 1, at 35th. J. Lutk beai L. R. Curtis, one up W. Dennan beat V/. K s;, two up. H. Gair beat J. W. Armitage, one up B. Peacock beat F. W. Wilkic, 3 and 2 D. Anderson beat Col. J. Hughes, 6 and 5. E. P. York Leat S. E. Carr, by default. H. C. Wells beat C. R. Jones, 6 ana 5. G. B. Ward beat D. Moncur, one up. W arwick-W ilson beat A. G. Lancaster, 4 and 3 L. Norton beat A. MeCulloch, 4 and 3. A: Craig beat F- Bullick, 2 and 1. M. H. Otway oeat Macknight, one up R. S. Baker b: at La Trobe Hill, -me up on 19th. E. C. Hetherington beat D. Gordon, 2 and 1. JECOND ROUND. G. S. Fry beat J. Harrison, 3 and 2, J. Lusk beat W. Dennan, two up. B. Peacock* Deat H. Gair, one up. D. Anderson beat E. P. York, one up. G. B. Ward beat H. C. Wells, one up on 22rid. Warwick-Wi'son beat L. Norton, or.e up on 19th. A. Craig beat M. H. Otway, 4 and 3, R. S. Baker beat E. C. Hetheringt n, 2 and 1. BOGEY HANDICAP. In the bogey handicap compet'tions played in csnjunction with the cup matches G. Brinsden and J. Goss tied for tbe prize in the first with 'scores of four up. In the second S. E. Carr won with three up.