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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 71, 15 June 1927, Page 9

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LADIES AT MIDDLEMORE PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST ROUND RESULTS THE first eliminating round in the Ladies’ Provincial Golf Championship was played at Middlemore this morning in perfect conditions. It produced no surprises. Play on the whole was fairly good and the results in the first round were: Miss D. Chrystall beat Miss E. M. Upton, 4 up and 3. Mrs. Deighton beat Mrs. Hodges, 3 up and 2. Miss E. Culling beat Miss F. Adams, 6 up and h. Miss M. Ward beat Miss F. ,Tlamlin, 1 up. Miss P. Horton beat Mrs. Marshall, 3 up and 1. Mrs. Hu Faur beat Miss T. Bayly, 6 up and 5. „ Mrs. Russell Grace beat Mrs. G. F. Ferguson, 4 up and 3. Mrs. S. Weston beat Miss M. Cooper, 2 up and 1. A fair example of the sort of thing that was happening was provided at the 10th hole. The first players oyer were Misses Chrystall and Upton, Miss Upton being four down, and was short of the green. Erowever, her approach hit the pin and she was down in three, Miss Chrystall taking three putts, thus losing the hole. Miss Hodges came to the hole all square with Mrs. Heighton and missed a three-foot putt for a win. However, the next pair provided something different, for Miss Adams, who was five down, sunk a 30foot putt for a two. The next pair, Misses Ward and Hamlin, were both woefully short. Miss Hamlin’s approach also hit the pin. Miss Ward was .urther away, but holed her third for ,a win. THE ryiATCHES Miss Chrystall was playing very well but for erratic putting. She was four up at the ninth with a score of 43. Miss Upton won the next two, but Miss Chrystall retaliated with a three against bogey five at the twelfth and also won the thirteenth- The next two were halved. Mrs. Heighton and Mrs. Hodges had one of the best fights of the morning. Both played very steadily. Mrs. Hodges was two up at the seventh, but the match was all square at the turn. Three putts on the tenth and trouble at the eleventh saw her one down. She then took four putts on the thirteenth and after some further even play, Mrs. Deighton won the match on the sixteenth. Miss Culling was five up at the turn and showed signs of being more on her game than recently. Her putting was her principal weakness this morning. She was level fours after the turn until the end of the match. Miss Hamlin was one up on Miss W r ard at the ninth, and all square at the tenth. Miss Ward was one down at the twelfth, but won the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth, and lost the next. Miss Hamlin missed a foot putt on the last green. Miss Horton was weak on the green and was one up at the turn, but she was only two over fours for the next eight, which was too solid for Mrs. Marshall. > Mrs. Hu Faur was six up at the tenth in her match with Miss Bayly and had no difficulty in maintaining that margin. Mrs. Ferguson played well to the sixth, but Mrs. Grace proved far too steady and was five up at the twelfth. Mrs. Ferguson won the next two, but the game ended at the fifteenth. Mrs. Weston and Miss M. Cooper halved the first four and the next five changed hands and Mrs. "Weston was one up at the turn. She won two holes against one on the way in and finished the match, at the seventeenth.