PROS. ALL SQUARE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 11

PROS. ALL SQUARE

ANOTHER ROUND WILL BE PLAYED UNINTERESTING GOLF FINAL From Our Own Correspondent AY AX GAXU I, Tocla y. The professional golf championship final began this morning. Moss and Shaw, at the end of IS holes, were all square after Moss had led all the way round. A high wind made good golf impossible and few exciting holes were played. Another round will have to be played to decide the Xcw Zealand champion. The golf up to the turn was hardly up to the standard of a championship final. Shaw was distinctly scratchy, but warmed up from the turn and came home brilliantly in 33. The ISth was spectacular from good drives and both played magnificent seconds to the pin. Shaw was -ft Gins and Moss a few inches further away. Moss lipped for the three, while Shaw canned. The scores were: Shaw 75. Moss 75. MORPETH’S LUCK WINS HARD-FOUGHT GOLF SEMI-FINAL CATHRO’S DOGGED FIGHT From Our Own Correspondent WANGANUI, Thursday. A tingle with the excitement of a closely-fought match, a gallery of 500 today watched every move in the game between Morpeth and Oathro in the semi-final of the New Zealand amateur golf championship at Belmont. Morpeth is invested with the glamour of Australian triumphs, and is well known to Xew Zealand golfers, but Cathro, the Castlecliff champion, is little known outside Wanganui. Ills sterling golf, and his imperturbable defiance of the best Morpeth could do. came as a great surprise to the visitors.

Cathro is a slightly built man. nearly 30, with fair hair and bleached blue eyes. Tie is quiet and hardly talks. He gives serious attention to every stroke in the game. There is nothing spectacular about him. His style makes a striking contrast to the debonair, sporting attack of the Titirangi golfer, who is off the fairways more often than not. Cathro was down the middle all the way round. He played a fine iron straight to the pin and was deadly with his mashie. His only weak spot was putting. Had he sunk two-third's of the four-footers which lie had for wins, the game would have ended in his favour at the 15th in the afternoon. In the morning, the first was halved. Morpeth won the second with a long, straight putt in 4. The third was halved. Cathro missed a long putt at the fourth, making Morpeth t».o up. Cathro took Sea view in 3, Morpeth being short down the bank. There was a rare half in threes at Redan, for which bogey is 5. The seventh was halved in fours. Morpeth missed a putt at Quarries, Cathro taking 4. Morpeth was out of bounds at the ninth, which Cathro, approaching short, took five to six. Cathro took Slope in 2, squaring the game. Cathro missed a putt at the 11th, Morpeth taking the hole in 4. Morpeth sank a 20-footer for 3 at Alma, making Cathro 3 down.. Then Cathro rallied, and took the next two in fours. Morpeth was through the green with his second out of the rough at the 17th, and Cathro took the hole with 4, squaring the game. The 18th Avas halved. Both did 73. LEVEL PEGGING In the afternoon, Cathro took the first with a long putt for 3, and The next in 4. Cathro was short up the bank at Dress Circle, which Morpeth took in 4. Cathro hooked his drive and put his second into The rough at the fourth, Morpeth taking the hole, four to six, and squaring the game. Morpeth made a magnificent recovery at the eighth, where he hooked his drive on to Seaview green. He had to play a. IGOyd iron shot over tiger country. Cathro missed a putt for a 3, and the hole was halved. The ninth was halved in 5, both missing 9ft putts. Turning for home, 1 up, the Castlecliff player made Morpeth think hard. Morpeth won the tenth, through poor putting on Cathro’s part. Morpeth dulled his second at the eleventh, and was short with his third, and Cathro Wbn in 4, ..and took the lead. Terawhiti was halved. Morpeth sank a 20-footer at Alma for 3, again squaring the game. Cathro got into a bunker at the fourteenth, which was taken by Morpeth with a 4. Cathro’s short approach and putting lost him a win at French Pass, which was halved in 4. Cathro omitted to ask for the pin to be taken out, while Morpeth was taking a 40-yard strong chip from the rough with his third, and the ball struck the pin and stopped dead, robbing Cathro of a win, and making Morpeth 1 up. The seventeenth was halved, through a half-hearted approach putt by Cathro, and the eighteenth was also halved. This left Morpeth a winner 1 up. One reason for Cathro’s failure was his putting. He tised a straight-faced putter. He has used this club for the lust two days only—a club which a man of many years’ experience ‘has trouble with. The game between Black and Sime was uninspiring. Although Sime was playing well. Black had it all over him all the way, and proved an easy winner by 5 and 4. Tomorrow morning’s professional final between Moss and Shaw will be sure to attract a large crowd to the links. A professional bogey handicap and an amateur bogey handicap were played today. Results were: Professional Bogey Handicap.—L. Ross. 3 up; J. A. Clements, 2 up: J. Mowat. 1 up; R. C. Butters; A. C. Pass, B. AV. Percy, all square. Second Amateur Bogey Handicap.— .T. Goss. 7 up; O’Callaghan. 2 up: Rielii mond, 1 up.