BRINSDEN BEATEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 259, 24 June 1932, Page 5

BRINSDEN BEATEN

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Rec. June 23, 10:30 p.m. SYDNEY, Thursday. In the semi-fmals "of the State amateur championship, Dobson heat Brins den, the New Zealander, -fiye up and four to play. Bettington beat Ferrier, three and two'. The New Zealander, Brinsden, gave Dobson, a great game. He struck' the New South" Welshman right oii his game. Both were in the hunkers at the first. Brinsden played out in the second bunker and halved the hole in fouy. Dobson fopped his second at the next, and Brinsden won in four to five. Dobson took three putts atthe third and Brinsden won in par three to four, • . Brinsden was in the bunker with his second, while Dobson's second was two yards from the pin. Dobson won with a b'irdie three. The match was squared at the fifth. The sixth was halved in par three. At Ihe seventh, Brinsden's approach was nearly buried in the bunker. Dobson winning in five to seven. Brinsden was again in the bunker at the eighth and failed to get out. Dobson two up. Dobson Three Up At the ninth, Brinsden brilliantly negotiated a stymie from six feet to gain a half in par fours. He was again in the bunker at the tenth, but recovered to within .four feet of the pin only to miss the putt. Dobson three up. A great second at the next placed Dobson on the green. Brinsden had a long putt fqr a half, but the ball went in and out again. Dobson four up. The twelfth was halved in par fours, after Brinsden had just misscd a forty foot putt to win. Dobson became five up at the thirteenth taking only one putt. A good approach by Brinsden gave him a win at the next in par three to four. The fifteenth was halved in five. Dodson topped his brassie at the sixteenth, Brinsden winning five to six. Dobson was now three up. Brinsden missed an easy putt at the seventeenth for a win, and a half resulted. Brinsden brushed his second at the eighteenth and Dobson was hole high. The New South Wales player won in four to five, and so was four up at lunch. ' Lead Maintained A good approach gave Brinsden the nineteenth, in three to four. Dobson won the twentieth five to six, and was still four up. The twenty-first was halved in par three. At the twenty-second, Brinsden was deeply buried in the bunker and Dobson won the hole in five to six. Dobson was now five up. Brinsden hooked his drive at the twentythird, and then drove into a deep bunker. He recovered well, however, and downed a 10-foot putt for a win in four to five. Both were on the green at the twenty-fourh with their , tee shos, Brinsden wih a long putt was down in birdie three. Dobson three up. Missing Putts Dobson retaliated at the next by sinking a 15-foot putt to stand four u'p. A the twenty-sixth, Brinsden holed a six yarder for a half. Dobson went five up at the twenty-seventh, when the New Zealander missed an easy putt. The twenty-eighth "was halved in par four. Brinsden won the twenty-ninth, and then the thirtieth in four to five. Dobson three up. Dobson holed ou at the thirty-first for a birdie four and one. The match finished at the thirty-second, Brinsden taking three putts, Dobson won the hole in three to four and the match five and four.