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Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1920, Page 3

GOLF.

.DOMINION TOURNAMENT. JOKKWOOI) WINS THE OPEN. . ! A TIE FOE SECOND. i , (By Wire.—Spiral Reporter.) | Hamilton, Last Night. The golf championship meeting was continued to-day under good conditions. The rain held off, but a still north-east made scoring hard. The greens were tricky and rather bumpy. Kirkwood never seemed to master the greens, and threw away several strokes in each round. He finished the fourth round with a lead of two strokes, and wound up an easy winner. He drew the usual gallery, but his play was not so accurate as on the opening day. A three was holed at. the first, followed by a nice four. He badly hooked a shor; at the third, and found the bunker on the flrst fairway. He made a magnificent recovery, and just missed a three. He drove into the bunker at the fifth, and the hole cost him four. Again bunkered at. the sixth he overran the green arid got a horrible lie in the bunker. He' played another brilliant stroke, and followed it by holing out. The seventh green cost him three putts, and holing in four at the following holes he turned in 38. Weak approaching at the eleventh cost him a stroke. Then followed three perfect fours. The last four holes were badly played, and the fifteenth cost him three putts. At the sixteenth he hit a great second, but pulled It into the rough. He recovered splendidly, but missed a two yards putt, and then he made the gallery gasp by missing a putt of a foot. He was weak at the last hole, which cost him five. His round took him 78—38 out and 40 In. Ho seemed afraid of the greens, and was always weak in his chip shots, while on two occasions he narrowly escaped a deep bunker. His recoveries from the rough and the bunkers were beautiful. Morpeth, playing lovely golf, had three fours to secure a lead by one stroke, but ho failed. He played his only really bad strokes on the last three greens He had putts of six feet for fours, but missed each one. His 77 was well played He went out in 38 and returned in 39. Dr., Ross again Improved his position by returning the best score of the morning. Ho played hj3 usual sound golf, and the only mistake ho made was failing to recover from the rough off a pulled brassy at the second. He went out in 38 and returned in the same." Douglas, playing against luck on trfe greens, took 40 going out, but played brilliantly coming home, and finished in 77. In the concluding rcmid, Kirkwood opened by missing a putt less than a foot. All through he was playing short. He topped his second at the sixteenth, but made a great recovery, and got; a four The most wonderful stroke of the match was at the last hole. After a long drive he found his ball In a cup, and taking his iron, he smashed down on the ball, which flew straight for the pin, and rested eighteen Inches from the hole. He holed out in three, and completed the round in 76. The performance was loudly applauded. Morpeth had no chance of beating him. His scores were: Out 39. in 37. Dr. Ross and Morpeth fell away in the final round. Dr. Ross found the bunkers, and ran up his score, while Morpeth seemed to be playing safo. His card contained twelve fives. East, by a fine 75, retrieved the position he lost In the morning, and tied with Morpeth fof" second place. Lusk ran up his figures at the 14th by a visit to the bunker. McEwan and lies, who tied, played off for the place to play the Australians on Friday, and lies won by one stroke. The next championship tournament is to be held at Christchurch. DETAILS. OF THE PLAY. KEEN CONTEST FOR SECOND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. The four rounds of the open championship, were completed to-day, and also the two qualifying rounds for the amateur championship _. Following are [the best scores in the open championship. Kirkwood 72 7S 7S 7C—301 S. Morpeth 75 7S 77 85—315 East 75 77 84 75—315 Douglas 77 85 J7 77—31« lies 80 7i! 80 82—318 McEwan 80 79 78 81—318 Dr. K. Ross 75 85 70 84—320 H. Crosse 82 81 83 82-328 Brooks 83 32 S3 80—328 Clements 78 88 81 81—32S If. B. L'usk S2 80 81 85—32R Butters S3 SI 82 84—3:10 W. Bell 81 88 79 82—330 I. I. Black 80 SO 84 80—330 A. Duncan 84 82 S4 81—331 T. H. Horton 83 78 8S 82—331 R. George 81 7S 85 88—332 Moss 82 80 84 82—334 Blair 84 85 S2 87—338 R. Rainger .... 94 84 82 82—342 I. Forbes 81 SO 84 92—343 A. Ekstedt 90 79 88 85—345 C. B. Wright 340 R. O. Chesney .... 347 Martin 34S A. Clouston :i4B 0. Saunders 348 1. Harold 3r,0 J. Banks 350 J. B. MacEwan ... 350 AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. The following qualified for the play-off in the amateur championship:— * Dr. Ross irjo S. Morpeth 162 H. Crosse „.... 103 A. Duncan ICS H. B Lusk 166 A. Clouston 167 C. Bidwill m R. O. Chesney i;D T. H. Horton ' ,', 170 C. B. Wright ~ 172 H. L. Black 170 E. Hlckson j;.. D. O. Whyte "'. 172 N. Rout 174 R. D. Wright ..." ]74 I. Banks 174 | R. George 175 j I. Harold .-.'..'.', 375 J. Kenny j -,- F. C. Fryer y,r t O. Saunders 175 A. Ekstedt .......'.'...'. no .1. Forbes ..'...'.'. 170 D. McCormick 176 11. Wynburne 276 W. A. Humphreys 17U C. A. Seymour 177 K. Caldwell .'.'.',' 177 3. Goss -[7O 3. B. McEwan 179 Inilay Saunders 1711 .W. B. Colbeck ". 179 Hurst ,'"_" j7|', THE DRAW. Following is the draw for the amateur championship play-off to-morrow:— H. B. Lusk v. G. Saunders. H. L. Black v. J. Banks. T. H. Horton v. D. O. Whyte. J. Fryer v. K. A. Seymour. R. George, v. W. A. Humphreys. j S. Morpeth v. K. Caldwell. j 11. Cros.se V. It. Wybuine. j A. Clouston v. .T. Goss. C. Bidwlll v. R. D Wright. R. O. Chesney v. A. Ekstedt. Dr. Ross v. I. Harold. .1 "V. McCormick v. J. Wright. j E. Hlckson v. Hurst. ] A. Duncan v. .T. Kenny. | 3. B. McEwan v. R. D. Rainger. ,T. -Forbes v. N. Rout.