WAIKATO GOLF

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21188, 10 August 1940, Page 15 (Supplement)

WAIKATO GOLF

PLAY LAST WEEK-END OPEN DAY AT ST. ANDREWS (By “Fyfe Scot”) Brilliant weather prevailed over the week-end for Waikato golf com- ; petitions, the chief event of the i week-end being the open day held jby the St. Andrews Club. A further j £lO was raised for the club’s fund !to send comforts to ex WaikatoI golfers now serving with the forces. | Mr Ken McLeod, in presenting the I prizes, mentioned that already quite | a number of parcels had been sent | to the .boys in camp but at the same , time the club would be glad to re--1 ceive further names and addresses I of Waikato golfers who had now been ! called up. On the following day the ! St. Andrews women had a very sucI cessful open day and a further £l2 | was obtained for their patriotic fund, i In the men’s open day Glading | carried off the best 36-hole gross again with two well-played 73’s. George Armstrong played a good round in the morning to equal this but with a 79 in the afternoon had to be content with second place while Eric Etheridge was third with two 78’s. In the handicap events J. Anderson, of Ohaupo, took the honours in the net 36-hole medal with 143, while in the morning bogey a tie resulted between C. Sutcliffe, : E. C. Day and G. Armstrong with ■ cards of 1 up. In the afternoon Stableford A. E. McDonald, who has not been showing very good form of late came to light and his card of 39 was a winner with a point to spare.

The best card of the week-end, of course, was Glading’s 5 up bogey card on Saturday, the medal round being 68. Glading’s putting has not been of the best recently. However, a bit of intensive work on the greens at odd times during the week did the trick and his 63 just meant getting those six footers.

The Captain’s and Vice-captain’s Trophies at St. Andrews have now reached interesting stages after five rounds of match play and those now left in the Captain’s Trophy are C. Ladner, G. Marriott, M. A. Kelly and E. Etheridge. Ladner played F. C. Wooller and equalled bogey figures for eight out of the first nine holes to give himself a good lead. Wooller was unable to reproduce the form of the previous week and the game ended in favour of Ladner on the thirteenth. M. A. Kelly had a good tussle with Alan Marcroft and looked at the 16th as if he might suffer defeat. Marcroft was one up going to this hole and was well down in two with an easy shot on to the green for his third with Kelly in trouble. At this point one of the strange things that will always occur in golf happened and Marcroft took another five to hole out, making him seven and Kelly won the hole to bring the game back to square. He eventually won on the 18th.

In the Etheridge-McCaw match, McCaw played well and on the day 1 would have probably won against j anybody else. However, Etheridge I turned on the fireworks, being round ' in 73 and McCaw did well to take I him to the 17th. C. B. Wake played ! a good round of 79 to beat H. F. i Blackie but this form was not forthI coming against Marriott, Marriott | winning comfortably. Wake started i off the first tee with one of the I poorest shots he must have hit for | some time and there is every likeli- | hood that this may have affected ! his confidence for the rest of the | game. The four still fighting out j the Vice-captain’s Trophy are C. Sutcliffe, N. Cann, H. Clarke and S. : Mayes. Progress at Lochiel j At Lochiel two match-play rounds ! of four-ball best-ball handicap trophy 1 were played and those to get through were R. Dennis and P. Gwynne, E. j Murray and S. Lorimer, D. Hemi and j J. E. Murray, and D. McGowan and !C. Cowley. Some of the lower hanj dicap players found it just too tough I to concede some of these improving ' players strokes and it would appear that the McGowan-Cowley combina--1 tion is going to be the most difficult I to concede strokes ,to. j There were quite a few good net I medal cards handed in over the | week-end and H. Hall’s 87 for a net i 67 'was the best, this warranted a I reduction of two strokes in his hanI dicap and we hope to hear in the ! near future that it has been further i reduced. P. Gwynne and B. Vickers

i were also reduced 'a stroke each, j both returning net 69’s. Gwynne is j now 20 while Vickers is now 16. I There were also a few reductions in handicaps at the Narrows Club i last week and they are as follows: ! —W. Sullivan reduced four, J. Adams : three, G. Powell two, while D. Porter and W. Wallace were reduced one. ! Porter had the best Stableford card j in the Camfosa Cup at the week-end, i scoring 33 points, while Wallace was 31. The method of play in this cup is the best two Stablefords out of : three. In the first round D. Coventry did a 33 so it appears now that who puts the best final round in between Coventry, Porter and Wallace will be the winner. In the women’s ! section for the Jones Cup played J under the same conditions, Mavis j Wallace has two good cards in of 1 30 and 32, while Mrs Burton is only one point behind with 32 and 29. Notes From Te Kowhai At Te Kowhai in the women’s section the Frank Herbert Cup went to Mrs Limmer who, after a net 70 from the 28 mark, improved on this in the second round to do a net 64 and won very comfortably, her nearest opponent being Mrs Calder with a net 146. In the men’s section C. Allan and M. Sing improved considerably on their first rounds and at the present moment are tieing for the cup with net 137’s. A. Duncan, who was a net 67 for the first round, still has his final round to play. At Gordonton R. Forsman still continues to show good form and is now in the final of the championship against Henare. Plis victim in the semi-final was Ross Bruce. J. Cunningham, who won the Pascoe Cup a week or so ago has now added the Cann Cup to his collection, while T. Henare and Mrs Vincent, who were in a fairly unassailable position, won the President’s Trophy, the last round of which was played last

week. Jim Ferrier’s total of 278 in the Milwaukee Open, an average of 69£, looked good enough to win anything and it is hard to believe that he was ten strokes behind the winner Ralph Guldahl, who averaged 67’s. Unquestionably the Americans are great golfers. It would be extremely interesting to see the conditions they play under in regard to the run on the ball, greens and length of the course*.