DUNCAN AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 24, 20 April 1927, Page 9

DUNCAN AGAIN

WELLINGTON GOLF PROVINCIAL TITLE HARD FIGHT WITH DRAKE (From Our Resident Reporter ) WELLINGTON, To-day. The veteran golfer, A. D. S. Duncan, captured the Wellington provincial golf championship for the seventh time by defeating J. H. Drake, in the finals at Heretaunga yesterday. Drake, whose capacity to play steady golf in erratic wind is well known, was in good form to reach the final stage, and came very close to capturing the championship. In the outward round Drake took no chances whatever, and appeared

to be favoured with whatever element of luck there was. Although Duncan did the first nine in 41, Drake was four up when the turn was reached. Both continued playing creditable golf, but Duncan’s match temperament asserted itself on the inward journey, and he covered the nine holes in 34. Both took three at the ninth, and Duncan took the tenth with a beautiful 12ft putt for a 3, also getting the eleventh in four. At the fourteenth the pair were all square. The two holes were halved, Duncan winning 1 up. Drake was fighting every inch of the way to retrieve the points he had lost on the inward nine holes. J. L. Black, whose defeat of T. H. Horton in the second round by 1 up fifteenth was halved in four, but a nice approach and putt gave Duncan the sixteenth in three, and the last at the nineteenth, put him well in the running for the championship, met Duncan in the semi-final, but the veteran was too steady for the younger player, and won 2 and 1. J. L. Petley put up a bad round against Drake in the semi-final, and Drake won 5 and 4. PALMERSTON TOURNEY PALMERSTON NORTH, To-day. The final of the Manawatu Golf Club’s Easter tourney was won by Ekstedt, who beat Hutchison, one up, at the twenty-first. Both are members of the local club.