SLOAN MORPETH BEATEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 15

SLOAN MORPETH BEATEN

FINAL OF AUSTRALIAN AMATEUR TITLE RYAN WINS, 2 UP AND ONE (United P A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) ADELAIDE. Thursday. In the final of the Australian amateur golf championship today Ryan defeated Sloan Morpeth (New Zealand) fry 2 up and 1 to play, over 36 holes. Morpeth was not quite up to his recent brilliance, and he was unlucky with hu putting. Morpeth won the first three holes &y steady play, but he showed a tendency to leave the fairway. At the turi the scores were 39 each. Morpeth drove out of bounds at the hole, and took 7. and lost the Dole. He had an unplayable lie in a cr ** er at the next hole. Ryan had an excellent 2 at the 16th T-.u liJ rpeth holed out in 4at the hole, of 500yds, his favourite hole. A~®y were all square at the end of morning round. *. in the afternoon Rvan was lup at torn. At the 29th hole Morpeth a “birdie” 3. and the match was Roared. Morpeth hit the back of the i with a chipshot at the next hole, G** 1 narrowlv missed a 3 at the next, a Par 4 hole. holes later Ryan sank a putt Vt v* or a making him dormy 2. £t the 35th hole Morpeth’s approach stro He putted from a 15yds away, and bis ball stopuzj 3ft short or' the hole, which was in “birdie" 4's.