WET WEATHER CANCELLED SUNDAY GOLF

Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 42, 1 June 1965, Page 12

WET WEATHER CANCELLED

SUNDAY GOLF

Wet weather throughout the weekend marred play at the Taupo Golf Cluh and cymditions were so bad on Sunday after- | noon that the scheduied event, the seventh rouud of the Winter Cup Stableford, was cancelled. It will now be played on j Sunday, June 13. The qualifying round of j the captain's prize match j Iplay event was decided on | Saturday and the 16 qualifiers were: — T. S. Leech 71 nett, J. Sayer, G. F. Fearn, K. j Clark, H. Hawkes 72, M. B. Orr, C. J. Jones 73, W. J. Shaw, H. J. Gowling, L. lO'Conner 74, R. Weir, G. L. | Currie, J. L. Wragge, P. | Potter, B. Harper 75, K. I jjacobs 76. ! - The A grade stableford j J was. won by T. S. Leech, j 1 38 points, with G. F. Fearn j runner-up with 36 points. j H. Hawkes, 36 points, I was successful in the B j grade stableford with W. i J. Shaw, 35 points, in j ! second place. The match of the day j on Saturday was a semi - ; final of the patron's trophy | 1 event, in whieh W. J. and I Mrs Shaw beat T. S. Leech and Miss J. Cooper at the 20th. ! Leech played brilliantly in the first nine holes and | ...

was mainly responsible for Miss Cooper and himself being four up at the ninth. In the second half the Shaws made excellent use of their strokes and had reduced the deficit to dormie two down at the 17th tee. Shaw won the 17th hole with a four and Mrs Shaw squared the match at the 18th hole by holing out a chip shot. The 19th hole was halved and Shaw climaxed a magnifieent recovery by sinking a chip shot from the back of the 20 th green to win the hole and the mateh. On Sunday a Taupo team took part. in the intermediate pennant series at Opotiki. The team gained six wins out of 24 individual matches.