RIGHT ON HIS GAME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 6

RIGHT ON HIS GAME

HORNABROOK BEGINS WELL IN MATCH AGAINST KITTO. FINAL OF AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. As a finish to a week's strenuous golf, in every kind of weather, the final thirty-six holes of the amateur championship is being played today between Hornabrook (Masterton), already the new open champion, and A. Kitto, the young player from the Seafield Club, Wanganui. Conditions at Miramar are sultry today with a tempering northerly breeze. The players were' followed by even larger galleries than those at the semi-final matches yesterday. With a possibility of two titles coming his way Hornabrook was right on his game. He began auspiciously to be 3 up on Kitto at the end of the first nine holes, which he covered in 34 (three under bogey) to Kitto’s 37.

Hornabrook finished the morning round by being two up on Kitto. He is 69 to Kitto's 71. Without being brilliant the golf was of a high standard. Kitto played some wild shots off the tee and he did not putt with his accustomed skill, but in the closing stages of the round he fought back tenaciously to be only one down when they went to the seventeenth.