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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 24 (Supplement)

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THE HAMILTON CLUB defeat of titirangi NOTES AND COMMENTS ((By “Fyfe Scott”) Of all the games played in the Titirangi-llamilton inter-club match at St. Andrews, the four-ball game between the leading players, W. Davidge and J. 11. Young lor Titirangi versus R. 11. Glading and G. Secoombe for Hamilton, proved to be the most interesting and closest, birdies being the order of the day. .J. H. Young opened proceedings for Titirangi by notching a birdie 4 at the second and 3 at the third to put his side 2 up. The fourth and fifth were halved in 4’s. At the sixth Seccombe got, one back for Hamilton with a birdie 3 and notched another one at the ninth to make the game square. The Hamilton pair, however, lost a hole again at the tenth where they were both bunkered off their tee shots but at the eleventh Seccombe again came to light with another 3 to make, the game square. From there onwards the next five holes were halved in bogey figures, the Hamilton pair getting the lead for the first time at the 17th, where it was Glading’s turn to get a 3. At the last hole each player got his birdie to leave the Hamilton side one up. The medal rounds by the individual players were as follows: J. 11. Young 72, W. Davidge 77, R- H. Glading 75, G. Seccombe 75, this including a 7 at the seventh. Glading’s Fine Round On Young’s morning form it certainly looked as if he would he a tough proposition for Glading in the singles in the afternoon. However Glading was in one of his invincible moods and Young though out in 37 found himself 3 down, Glading being out in 34. This was all the more remarkable in view of the fact that Glading dropped a stroke at the first by being hunkered with his tee shot. His figures out werq 443434 5 4 3 •—34. At the 14th Glading increased his lead to 4 up and finished the game at the 15th where he registered another birdie 3, his medal round being 70, which he could have improved upon by one stroke, where he carelessly missed an 18-inch putt on the 17th when the game was over. Seccombe and Davidge had quite an interesting game, where Davidge, after | winning three out of the first four holes, was eventually brought back to square at .the 16th. Seccombe, however, found bunkers at the 17th and 18th losing both holes to lose his game to Davidge by 2 down. A good round of 75 was also played by G. L. Taylor in his single, this giving him an easy win over H. L. Robson on the 1

In what was described as the finest exhibition of golf in the history of the event, Alan Waterson defeated Jim Ferrier in the final of the State amateur golf championship. When the match ended, Waterson had played 177 holes in 13 under par.

mark. One not so lucky was M. A. Kelly, who played good golf for a 77 and yet lost on the las.t green to 'B. T. Lay cock. At this stage Hamilton had a good lead in the foursomes, each team having two wins in the singles. As the other singles returned, however, it was soon seen that Hamilton would have a convincing win and other Hamilton players to win llicir singles were, J. G. Fergusson, E. Grocott, K. McLeod, R. B. Seabrook, H. K. Liddell, R. McCaw, A. M. Fahey and A. Marcroft, Handicap Reductions In Bogey and Stahleford scrambles certain players seem to have a monopoly over these at the present moment and to be spen in the money again were R. L. McKinnon, E. Zieslcr, G. Armstrong, and G. .Burgess. Each of these players has been reduced in handicap recently but certainly are still in the winning vein. McKinnon >n particular is playing very steady golf at the present moment. A stranger in their midst last week, however, was W. Waring, who broke 00 for his first Lime and on handicap finished 2 up to tie wi-th Burgess and Arms-trong. Maybe lie is a dark horse prospect for the Winter Show Gup. Reductions in handicap since the week-end are G. Armstrong and G. Burgess down to 2.? t. Andrews is certainly holding a stronger hand every day and 1 believe under discussion just now is the arranging of a game between the pick ot‘ the country players against the pick of Hamilton players. Mr Morgan, of the N’gahinapouri Club, is endeavouring to organise this game and I hope to see his efforts successful, he certainly will, however, have to give a lot of thought to the selection of his team Play at Lochlel Last week at Lochiel saw the conclusion of the Jones and Forsyth Gups. L. Brown on a 10 handicap running out the winner in the Jones Cup with a

net 141, his last gross round of 84 being a good one for his'handicap, a couple of steady net rounds of 73 and 70 by E. White giving him the role of runner-UR. In the Forsyth Gup, G. Grace’s first net round of G2 placed him in a practically impregnable position and he continued the good form of the previous week for another net round of 68 to give him a clear-cut victory of 11 strokes. S. J. Walker made a good recovery in this Gup and with a net 67 jumped from seventh place to be runner-up to Grace. In the G Division, J. Bones and J. Markham have now earned their handicaps through their efforts of the last two weeks. Interesting reading is to see that Bobby Locke has arrived back in England for another hid at the British open, Von Nida, in Hamilton recently, should he arriving there also soon and as both these players have been seen in action by a good number of New Zealand players the results of the British Open will certainly be awaited with much more interest this year. Locke is to te*jn up with Alfred Padgham in challenge matches and is being hacked up to the exteat of £IOOO by Mr Norman Erleigh, a Rand mining magnate. Behind him also are Mr Teddy Marks a mining millionaire, and Mr Leonard Oates, a motor magnate. What a pity we haven’t got a few rich golf philanthropists in New Zealand. We might he able to turn out a world beater also.