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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 101, 31 May 1930, Page 13

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golf matters of interest. p, THE • GAME IN BRITAIN

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Great mterest of late 1ms been centred 111 golf activities at Home, where tlie ontish prestige has suffered yet w°n ®evere blow m the recent Walker Cup contest, the United States pioving tlie victors by ten games to V°i. , w 110 set golfing seribes busy with theories of the why and wherefore of British defeats at the nands of American rivals for golfing honours. great achievement. There is one yery bright star, however> .hi the British firmament and 1 1 1 ^ Miss Diana, Fishwick, who upheld Britain's claim to supremacy among lady golfers in the world in remarkable fashion by defeating Miss Glenna Collett in tlie final. Miss Enid Wilson, a strong British challenger and also Miss Molly Gourlay, a seasoncd cxponent of the game, went down before tlie American champion and it

was left to Britain's ilnieteen-vear-old Diana to pull the title cut of the fire, which she did in a wonderfuh game. The winner should have a great future 111 golf, for besides being a very fine player, she is blessed with a real golfing tempernment, a very necessary possession fpr anyone aspiring to bigli honours. n.z. championships. It is now stated that the New Zealand Golf championships this year will take place at Palmerston North, not at Titirangi as was previously reporfced. There has heen a great deal of uncertainty as to where this event would be held but this latest and. apparently final decision came from a special meeting of the golf council held this week. Previously a message was received from Wellington to the effect that it would he Titirangi's turn this year.