WEEKEND GOLF

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 8

WEEKEND GOLF

OKA HEKETA SHIELD

MASTERTON v HUTT.

EASY WIN FOR HUTT TEAM

The outstanding event on the golfing programme in Wellington during the weekend was the first match ot the season for the Oka Heketa Shield between the Hutt and Masterton clubs, which was played on the Hutt links yesterday, and resulted in a win for Hutt by 27 games to 12, with six games halved. Masterton sent a team 30 strong, and had the good fortune to strike beautiful weather. J. P. Hornabrook, New Zealand open and amateur golf champion, led the Masterton team. W. B. Reilly, the Hutt No. 1, was an absentee through having strained the muscles of a shoulder while playing on the Hutt links on Saturday. G. P. Roberts filled No. 1 position for Hutt, but was beaten by Hornabrook in the singles by 2 and 1. The following are the results, the Hutt players being mentioned first in each instance: —

Fourballs: G. P. Roberts and W. G. Horne lost to J. P. Hornabrook and E. Henderson, 2 and 1; J. F. Pym and E. S. Thomson beat H. L. Esau and E. B. Booth, 2 and 1: G. Y. Berry and R. Adams and G. Falloon and J. Coom. all square; A. R. Corlieson and D. M. Wilson beat L. Connolly and W. E. Holdgate. 2 and 1; P. Ellerm and J. H. Turner beat R. McKenzie and K. D. Duncan, 4 and 2; W. H. Lees, Junr., and D. H. Griffin beat D. Williams and F. J. Miller. 4 and 2; C. A. Burgess and L. Moss beat R. E. Baker and G. Brown, 4 and 3; L. W. Bridge and W. H. Barton beat D. T. Herbert and J. E. Jenkins, 4 and 2; W. H. Lees, Senr. and R. F. Jollands beat J. Dalziell and N. G. Whiteman, 5 and 4; J. F. McLean and W. H. Anderson beat J. Donald and W. Batty, 5 and 4; S. A. Wiren and E. Shields-Brown beat S. A. Mannering and H. J. Nitz, 2 and 1; P. J. R. Fordham and W. C. Wedderspoon lost to J. A. Card and W. G. Rutherford, 2 ana 1; K. R. Davis and M. T. McLean beat L. Pither and J. E. Falloon, 1 up; W. O. Gibb and M. Paulin beat G. R. Joy and F. C. Stowell. 2 up; K. J Caverhill and E. T. Rothwell beat M. Armstrong and G. W. Sellar, 8 and 7.

Singles: Roberts lost to Hornabrook, 2 and 1; Horne beat Henderson, 3 and 2; Pym beat Esau, 5 and 4; Thomson beat Booth, 2 and 1; Berry lost to G. Falloon, 5 and 3; Adams lost to Coom. 2 down; Corlieson lost to Connolly, 1 down; Wilson beat Holdgate, 4 and 2; Ellerm beat McKenzie, 1 up; Turner lost to Duncan, 2 down; W. H. Lees, Junr. beat Williams, 1 up; Griffin and Miller, all square; Burgess beat Baker, 7 and 6; Moss beat Brown, 3 and 2; Bridge beat Herbert, 4 and 2; Barton lost to Jenkins, 3 and 1; W. H. Lees, Senr. lost to Dalziell, 1 down; Jollands beat Whiteman, 4 and 3; J. F. McLean beat Donald, 2 and 1; Anderson beat Batty, 4 and 3; Wiren beat Nitz, 3 and 2; Shields-Brown beat Mannering, 3 and 2; Fordham and Card, all square; Wedderspoon lost to Rutherford, 3 and 1; Davis and Pither, all square; M. T. McLean beat J. E. Falloon, 2 and 1; Gibb and Joy, all square; Paulin and Stowell, all square; Caverhill lost to Armstrong, 3 and 2; Rothwell lost to Sellar. 2 and 1.

Hornabrook, partnered by Henderson, beat Roberts and Horne in - the tourballs by 2 and 1. The New Zealand dual champion went out in 39. and returned in 37. He had birdies at the sixth (400 yards), seventh (420 yards), and fifteenth (505 yards). He was not at his best, however, as he had one 6 and six s’s on his card. This was not good shooting, considering that the weather conditions were perfect, the fairways and greens in ap-ple-pie order, and that placing was permitted on the fairways. Roberts took 78 for the round. 38 out and 40 home.

Horne, who partnered Roberts, took 41 for the out journey, and 40 for the run home. Henderson, a handicap 3 player, who was Hornabrook’s partner, went out in 42 and came back in 39. Hornabrook beat Roberts by 2 and 1 in the battle between the No. I’s in the singles. Roberts drew ahead with 5 to 6 at the second hole, when Hornabrook’s long brassie second found a bunker, and he failed to get out at the first attempt. Hornabrook squared the game with a birdie 4 at. the seventh (420 yards), and turned for home 1 up. when he rang on a birdie 3 at the ninth (377 yards). Hornabrook took 38 for the out journey to Roberts’s 40.

Roberts squared the match at the short eleventh, when Hornabrook popped his tee shot into a bunker; and exploded out into another bunker. They halved the next four holes, and the champion clinched the argument by sinking a 20-foot putt to win the short sixteenth, after having been bunkered from the tee, and then rang on a birdie 4 at the seventeenth (400 yards), which gave him the game by 2 and 1. Hornabrook did the home journey in 38, which gave him 76 for lhe round, while Roberts took 40 each way.

Henderson was 3 up on Horne at the fifth, in the match between the No. 2's, but the Hutt man took the seventh, eighth, and ninth with 4's, to square the game at the turn. Both took 41 for the run out. Horne took the twelfth and thirteenth with 4's to be 2 up, but Henderson got one back wilh a 4 at tiie fourteenth. Horne retaliated with a birdie 4 at the fifteenth (505 yards) to stand 2 up again, and he took the game .by 3 and 2 by winning the short sixteenth with a bogey 3. Horne did the home journey in 37. which gave him 78 for the round, while Henderson took 40 for the run home, making his full journey 81. A fourball handicap bogey played in the morning was won by W. H. Anderson and J. F. McLean. 6 up. Next came L. Pither and J. E. Falloon. 5 up: and C. A. Burgess and L. G. Moss. 4 uo.

A Stableford competition in the afternoon was won by G. Falloon (Masterton). witii 37 points. Next came J. Coom (Masterion). 36: I. A. 11. Symes (Hutt), 36; and K. B. Lockett (Hutt), 35.

MAHU.NGA CLUB WEEKEND RESULTS. LADIES' GAMES. The following were the best net scores handed in on Saturday: —Mrs Perrin, 71; Miss Reed, 71; Miss Calwell, 72; Miss Goodall. 72. The second round of matches in connection with the Mill's Cup was com-

pleted at the weekend as follows: — Miss Samson beat Miss Johnson. 2 up; Miss Polson beat Miss Smith. 5/4; Miss Calwell beat Miss McFarlane. 2/1; Mrs Claridge beat Mrs Hendry, 4/2. men;s bogey round. The best cards returned for the bogey round played on Saturday by members of the Mahunga Club were: W. G. Rew, all square; F. C. Brockett, 1 down: G. R. Beecroft, 2 down; C. Sandbek, 2 down.

RIVERSIDE STABLEFORD ROUND RESULTS. The best cards handed in on Saturday afternoon for a Stableford round played by members of the Riverside Golf Club are as follows:—Men: A. Wyeth 37, N. Hoar 35. H. Wehipeihana 34, Greig Jones 34, A. Bell 34, lan Coleman 34. G. Lambourne 34. Women: Miss Wood 36. Mrs Skeet 35. Mrs Clarke 34, Miss Shearer 33. Mrs Naan 32, Miss Bampton 31, Mrs Connell 31. Mrs Palamontain 30, Mrs Poole 30.

The following is the draw for an L.G.U. medal round to be played on Saturday next:—Mrs Brown v Mrs Rawlins; Mrs Clarke v Miss K. Dixon! Miss Bradley v Miss James; Miss Bampton v Miss Wood; Mrs Palamontain v Mrs Jones; Mrs Pool v Miss Wiggins; Mrs Naan v Mrs Gilliland: Mrs Hayne v Miss Shearer: Miss Nix v Mrs Connell: Miss Selby v Mrs Skeet; Mrs Chapman v Miss J. Dixon; Mrs Emery v Miss Tankersley; Miss Keisenbcrg v Mrs Wearne; Mrs Cross v Mrs Blatchford. As it will be a free day for the men., they may arrange their own partners. )