GOLF IN FIJI
CROMPTON WINS CHAMPIONSHIP The Fiji golf championship was won last week by Hollins Crofnpton. who is well known in Auckland, having studied law here. He was the defender of the title, and in the final beat Oscar Stevenson, 4 and 3. When Hagen was arranging his visit to Australia, afterwards cancelled, he offered to play an exhibition at Fiji for £SO, and the Fiji club scored by offering to back Crompton for £lO. In last week’s final the golf was sparkling from the time that Stevenson holed a pitch shot with a mashie at the first. The course is over nine holes, and in the second nine in the morning Crompton did at 32, against a bogey 36. The better ball of the pair over the first IS was 62 against bogey 72. with two twos and eight threes in it. CYompton was then 2 up. Stevenson won the first hole in the afternoon, and the game was square at the third, where Crompton’s ball hit his caddy. However, he won three of the next four, and was 4 up at the end of the first nine, increasing this to 5 at the 10th, and holding his lead to win as stated.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 12
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