GUY AND WEIR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 3

GUY AND WEIR

WINNERS OF PROFESSIONAL FOURSOME BRILLIANT TEAM WORK SEEN P. SMITH AND GLADING WIN AMATEUR TITLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Competitors at the New Zealand championship golf tournament on the Miramar links yesterday took part in the foursomes championships. This is a form of competition in which partners play alternate strokes, and team work counts. The weather was the best which has been experienced so far, but the links were turned right round through a light southerly wind succeeding the stiff northerly which prevailed last week. Holes which were reached in the open with a drive and a niblick pitch, yesterday required two full woods.

The feature of the day’s play was the brilliant team work of A. E. Guy (Poverty Bay) and J. Wein (Te Awamutu), who won the professional championship with brilliant rounds of' 70 and 69, seven strokes ahead of the runners-up, A. Murray (Auckland) and A. J. Shaw (Wellington).

The amateurs did not do so well. The honours were taken by P. Smith (Akarana), amateur champion of the Dominion, and' R. H. Glading, the Hamilton champion. This pair did rounds of 74 and 73,,which just beat the Hutt pair, W. B. Reilly and I. A. Ewen, by one stroke. It is interesting to note that the aggregate of Smith and Glading yesterday beat the figures returned by B. M. Silk (Wanganui) and J. P. Hornabrook (Masterton), in taking the amateur foursomes title at Dunedin last year by four strokes. The results were as follows:— Professional Championship. A. E. Guy and .1. Weir 70-69-139 A. Murray and A. J. Shaw .. 70-76-146 J. Lambic and A. 11. Dyke .. 76-75-151 N. H. Fuller and G. Watt .... 74-77-151 T. S. Galloway and James Galloway 78-74-152 W. Allbon and C. C. Clements 77-76-153 J. A. Clements and R. Jackson 75-78-153 B. J. Smith, jun., and E. S. Douglas 77-78-155 H. R. Blair and G. W. Melvin 82-76-158 R. C. Butters and B. Stratmore 78-80-158 J. D. Mclntosh and A. C. Sheriff 80-80-160 F. G. Bryant and P. E. Maughan 84-81-165 B. J. Smith sen., and K. C. Williams 84-84-168 L. Ross and D. M. Boyd 88-82-170 James Watt and John Watt 85-89-174

Amateur Championship, i P. G. F. Smith and R. H. 5 Glading 74-73-147 ? W. B. Reilly and I. A. Ewen 75-73-148 1 G. A. Ussher and J. Shelly 78-74-152 L D. H. Graham and D. C. Collins 77-76-153 j P. Quinn and R. G. Holland 74-81-155 1 J. P. Hornabrook and B. M. Silk 77-78-155 I W. J. Davidge and R. B. Carr 84-72-156 [ I. B. Cromb and E. J. Pumphrey 80-76-156 J. D. Nash and P. F. Francis 76-81-157 11. A. Black and A. E. Doneghue 80-77-157 , J. L. Black and M. R. Moore 80-77-157 . G. P. Roberts and J. P. 1 Mortland 81-76-157 K. Glendinning and J. Goss 83-74-157 11. J. Longstaff and J. B. I Parker 80-80-160 F. W. Dixon and F. B. Kerr 81-79-160 , A. G. Sime and J. H. McDougall 82 79-161 C. G. Swinburne and H. D. Gyles 81-80-161 R. B. Cameron and E. Henderson 80-81-161 A. R. Kitto and R. F. Kitto 78-83-161 E. G. Fletcher and W. A. Robertson 81-80-161 J. Jeffrey and B. Kiernan .... 82-81-163 C. F. Shadwick and L. A. Watson 80-83-163 J. W. Morrison and D. B. Stratmore 87-77-164 D. L. Irwin and J. A. Johnston 82-82-164 E. J. Moriarty and E. Butler 81-83-164 E. S. Thompson and W. H. Dillicar 86-78-164 J. P. Colwill and H. H. McLean 78-87-165 C. J. Hayes and A. Hood .... 88-77-165 T. Gibson and R. F. Thrush 89-78-167 K. J. S. Smith and L. J. Moorhouse 87 80 167 F. W. Huggins and J. M. • Hussey 81-86-167 H. A. Hansen and R. G. Hayward 83-86-169 A. 11. Boyd and D. C. Bennie 82-89-171 BRILLIANT ROUNDS. Guy and Weir showed exdellent team work in taking the professional championship. Starting off with a birdie 4 at the first hole (425yds) against the wind, they notched a birdie 3 at the second (300yds). They had : bogey figures at the next three holes, ■ and recorded a sensational eagle 3 at ! the seventh (420yds). Another birdie 3 at the ninth gave them an out journey of .32, five under bogey. Coming back they notched a birdie 3 at the 1 thirteenth (385yds), but took one over 1 bogey at the fourteenth and eighteenth \ to do a return journey of 38, which j gave them a brilliant round of 70. Their J card read: — ‘ Out: 435343343—32 1 In: 553355345—38 1 — 1 70 — 1 They continued their steady play in i the afternoon, doing the out journey in ] 34, with an eagle 2 at the second (300 If yds), where Weir’s drive found the; I green and Guy sank at 24-foot putt, and birdie 4’s at the third and seventh, i They notched birdie 4’s at the tenth r (490yds),' the eleventh (470yds), and ( the fifteenth (450yds), to do the run 1 home in 35, which gave them 69 for (

the round. Their figures were:— Out: 524344444—34 In: 443444444—35 69 Their aggregate of 139 left the field far behind, their nearest opponents being A. Murray (Auckland) and A. J. Shaw (Wellington), who started off with a brilliant round of 70. Their card read: — Out: 435433444—34 In: 443454345—36 70 They could not maintain this standard in the afternoon. Though they went out in 35. they took 41 for the home journey, Shaw not being at anything like his best. The rest of the professionals were well behind. J. Lambic (Hastings) and A. H. Dyke (Maraenui) and N. H. Fuller (Christchurch) and G. Watt (Wanganui) coming next with aggregates of 151. AMATEUR CONTEST. The youthful pair P. Smith (Akarana) and R. H. Glading (Hamilton) in taking the amateur championship played steady golf. They covered the course in 74 in the morning and bettered this by a stroke in the afternoon. In the afternoon they went out in 35 but took 38 for the run in. Glading missed a 2-foot putt at the twelfth, but Smith made amends for this by sinking a 25footer at the sixteenth. The Hutt pair W. B. Reilly and I. A. Ewen were only one point behind, doing rounds of 75 and 73, but the third pair. G. A. Ussher (Timaru) and J. Shelly (Miramar), wore four strokes further back with rounds of 78 and 74. The best‘round done by the amateurs was the 72 in the afternoon by the Titirangi pair W. J. Davidge and R. B. Carr, who were both at the top of their form. Their 84 in the morning, however, put them out of the running.