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OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST ROUND LEADERS. HOLDER SETS NEW RECORD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 5. Leaders in the' first round of the open golf championship at St Andrews are Faulkner, Busson, Burton, Lock 70: R. A. Whitcombe, Davies, Perry, Fallon, Pose, Rees 71; Crawley, Branch, Shankland, Ay ton, Bruen 72. Others include Cotton 74; C. A. Whitcombe 75; Balieu 77. Players had to contend with a thunderstorm. The greens were sodden. Lacey went round in 75, Mitchell in 75, Compston 76, Kyle 77, and Lawson, Little and McLean in 79. The holder of the open championship, Reg Whitcombe, set a St Andrews record with six successive threes from the eighth to the thirteenth holes, four of which were birdies.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 8
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