GOLF TOURNEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 324, 9 April 1928, Page 11

GOLF TOURNEY

PROV. CHAMPIONSHIP MANY GOOD MATCHES TIDMARSH BEATS GEORGE The first roLind of the Auckland provincial golf championship was concluded under good conditions at Middlemore this morning, the nearest to a surprise result being the win of H. W. Tidmarsh against an ex-champion, Rex George. Results in order of the draw: R. D. Wright beat R. O. Gardner, 3 and 1. P. J. Western beat H. Wiggins, 2 ancl 1. E. L. Bartleet beat J. Hockin, 4 and 3. T. A. Goulding beat H. L. Rees,- 4 and 3. H. W. Tidmarsh beat R. M. George, 3 and 1. W. N. Abbott beat H. Plumley, 6 and H. B. Lusk beat H. F. Buckley, 4 and 3. S. Morpeth beat R. H. Menzies, 4 and NOTES ON THE PLAY * Tidmarsh was two up on George in the first three holes, and never let go. Playing good golf all the way, Tidmarsh became three up and four. A desperately long putt gave George a win at the next, and a magnificent recovery shot from the seventeenth fairway saved him at the sixteenth, but the match finished at the seventeenth. Wright started three against Gardner, who has upset the positions of more than one leading golfer, and achieved fame by putting Arthur Duncan out in the first round of the amateur at Middlemore in 1924, Duncaji having qualified first. Wright stymied himself at the second, and after playing the sixth and eighth badly found himself one down to the left-hander. The game was square at the turn, Wright 42 out, Gardner 40. Gardner had a two at the tenth, but the match was square going to the fifteenth, which lie also lost, and followed by losing the next, and the match, two and one, at the seventeenth. Bartleet and Hockin were mixing good and loose play very well, Bartleet being a bit at sea off the tee. Bartleet squared at the short seventh with a two, his tee shot being six feet away, and Hockin profited by the example and put his wood 10 feet from the 26S yard eighth, and was one up again. Bartleet got another two at the tenth, and was two up at the twelfth, going on to win, 5 and 3, with a score littleabove level fours.

Without playing anything sensational, Goulding was five up on Rees going to the ninth. He was playing the shots just when they were required. Rees got a couple back then, but the match ended on the fifteenth. PLAYED GREAT GOLF

Playing great golf all the way, Abbott was three up on Plumley going to the ninth. His start of 444 was too good, and put him two up. "Without being pressed, the doctor won, six and 5. Plumley was not physically capable of playing the stuff required. Dr. Buckley, Whang arei, and H. B. Lusk, holder of the title, staged some fireworks to start, Lusk starting 354 and Buckley 453. The match was still square going to the turn. After that Lusk won fairly comfortably, four and 'three. Western and Wiggins scrapped hard all the way, the sensations being in the short play. Wiggins holing a 50-footer on the third for a win, and Western doing much the same on the twelfth, where he became one up. The match was square at the fifteenth,- Western winning the next two. From all square at the turn, Western came home in 34, and Wiggins in 3-6. Morpeth, out in 39, was three up on Menzies, but he had had to work for his score all the way. The left-hander was hitting very fine long shots, but could not quite stay with the champion. and the match finished on the fifteenth.