Ladies' Golf Tourney at Hokowhitu

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7280, 6 October 1933, Page 8

Ladies' Golf Tourney at Hokowhitu

Heavy Wind Makes Good Scoring Difficult

Championship Advances to Semi-final Stage

The ladies’ open golf tournament which is being held on the Manawatu Club’s course at Hokowhitu, was advanced a further stage yesterday, the championship and handicap events decided on match play, having reached the semi-final stages. The c curse was in good order and while the conditions provided a splendid test of golf, the players obviously tired under the strain imposed by the stron g south-westerly wind with which they had to contend.

1 The iirst and second rounds of tho ■ '■championship were played during the day and the semi-finals will be between Miss Oliver Kay. (St. Clair) and Miss ■M. Guy (Manawatu), Mrs. .0. Stout (Hcretaunga) and Miss Bessie Gaisford /Marton). These matches will coin4nence at 9.25 and 9.30 this morning. The winners meet in the final which is -timed to start at 1.30 p.m. The semi-finalists in the Ekstcdt Handicap aro Miss Brinton Smith! (Miramar), Mrs. Jarvis (Miramar), Mrs. Broderick (Wanganui) and Mrs. ran Ascii (Shirley). Those remaining in the Consolation Handicap arc Mrs. ,T. Graham (Feilding), Sirs. M. Gabriel (Manawatu), Mrs. A. J. Kenney (Miramar) and Miss Wanklyn (Manawatu). Well Run Tourney. The players are finding the arrangements, as carried out by the efficient •'secretary, Mrs. L. Seifert, and her assistants,' greatly to their liking and the 'smooth running of this popular fixture is a. triumph of organisation. Following are the results of the day ’s play: — MANAWATU OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. ■ ■ .. ... „ , First Round. - Miss O. Kay beat Mrs. A. E. Ekstedt. ■ Mrs. Kota beat Mrs. J. H. Jennings. Miss M. Guy beat Mrs. -E. A. Blaiu. Miss Hanson beat Mrs. G. Ferguson. Mrs. D. Stout beat Miss E. Barton. Miss I. Seifert beat Mrs. H. C. Collinson. Miss C. Wilson beat Miss A. Ormond. Miss B. Gaisford beat Mrs. J. F. Field. Second Round. Miss Kay beat Mrs. Kota, 6 and 4. Miss Guy beat Miss Hanson, 1 up. Mrs. Stout beat Miss Seifert, 5 and 4. Miss Gaisford beat Miss Wilson, 2 and 1. EKSTEDT HANDICAP CUP. First Round. Miss J. Brinton Smith (13) beat Miss E. West (11). Miss Jepson (8) beat Mrs. L. F. JSpeechloy (12). Mrs. Dorrington (9) beat Miss J. Spring (7) by default. Mrs. Jarvis (10) beat Miss Dalglcish (8). Mrs. Broderick (8) beat Mrs. F. W. Dixon (7). Miss E. Bell (7) beat Miss M. Roberts (7). Mrs. G. van Asch (14) beat Mrs. B. Taylor (9). Mrs. D. Williams (14) beat Mrs. E. 1,. Harding (5) by default. Second Round. Miss Brinton Smith beat Miss Jepgon, 4 and o. n Mrs. Jarvis beat Mrs. Dorrington, o and 2. Mrs. Broderick beat Miss Bell, 4 and ’ Mrs. van Asch beat Mrs. Williams, 5 and 3. , _ CONSOLATION HANDICAP. First Round. Mrs. A. C. Feast (9) beat Mrs. E. Y. Brooker (10). Mrs. J. Graham (13) beat Miss Lucas (S). Mrs. Gabriel (15) beat Mrs. D. • J,Stewart (13). b Miss K. Rutledge-(19) beat Airs. 3v. -Little (12) by default. - Mrs. H. McDowell (14) beat Aliss 'M. McKenzie (7). Mrs. A. J. Kcaney (15) beat Miss .-Harkness (8). « Miss N. Grace (S) beat Mrs. A. Aler * Miss Wanklyn (13) beat Airs. D. "Reid (IS). Second Round. Mrs. Graham beat Airs. Feast, i up. Mrs. Gabriel beat Aliss K. Rutledge on the 22nd. green. Mrs. Kcaney. beat Airs. McDowell, o and 2. '■ Aliss Wanklyn beat Aliss Grace, ana .J. ■ ■ ■ Third Medal Handicap. Three,,net! scores of 79 headed the '■•senior list in the third medal handicap rand' 1 on - the count, back Aliss Jepson ’was the winner, the loading cards beving as under: — Aliss Jepson 90 11 79 ,Aliss M. Guy 87— S—79 Aliss C. Wilson SS— 9—79 , Aliss E. Bell .Aliss AT. Wilkinson .. .. 91— 7—84 Airs. J. H. Jennings .. .. 94 9—-So Junior Grade Won by Miss N. Nash. Aliss N. Nash, with a net score of 75, carried off the honours in the junior grade, the best cards being those of • Aliss N. Nash- 105—30—75 Airs. G. van Asch .. .. 94—.18 —76 Airs. J. Brinton Smith .. 95—17—78 Mrs. T. Buxton 105—27—78 Airs. E. K. Alonteith .... 97 —18—79 Four-Ball Bogey. Tho afternoon competition was a four-ball bogey and the best card (1 up) was returned by Airs. Ekstedt and Miss E. Barton. Next on the list were Alisses A. Ormond and Aliss Dalgleish, from Napier, and Airs. C. G. Aloore and Aliss N. Nash, who /finished square with /the “Colonel,” the count back favoured the Napier pair for second prize. The Championship Games. There was some very fine golf in the championship games and in two of those'played in the afternoon, the issue was in doubt until the rounda had been nearly completed.

Second Round Matches. Aliss Kay beat Airs. Ekstedt in the morning and she met Airs. Kota in the second round, Airs. Rota having eliminated Airs. Jennings. The feature of the game between the Australian titleholder and Airs. Rota was the tremendous driving by both players. Aliss Kay is acknowledged to be one of the longest drivers in New Zealand or Australia, yet Airs. Kota was holding her from her tees and at times it was Aliss Kay who had to play the first second. Aliss Kay, however, was much too good through the greens and sho won fairly easily after an interesting match. The first hole was halved and the driving duel was on at the second where both put (heir tee shots over the cross bunker. Airs. Kota chipped to tho back of the green and Aliss Kay followed with one 15 feet short of the pin. Playing from tho slope, Airs. Kota rimed the cup, the ball staying out. Aliss Kay ran hers down for a birdie three and a win. The third was halved in easy s’s arid the fourth in 3’s. Playing to the fourth, Aliss Kay was on from the tee, but out to the right. Airs. Kota caught the bunker, but chipped on and ran down a 10-footcr for the half.

They were nicely on the green in 3’s at Strang’s, but Aliss Kay laid her approach putt dead for an easy 5. Airs. Kota failed with her approach putt and took 0 to bo 2 clown. She had outdriven the champion, who was one over 4’s at the third and fifth. The next three holes were halved and Aliss Kay increased her lead to 3 at the ninth where she chipped from the rough to the right and ran down a 12-footer for the win in 3. Aliss Kota had found the blinker from the tee and required 3 to Teach the green. Aliss Kay had increased her lead to 5 up at Ti Ti’s and she clinched the match with a birdie 3 at Kraal, where long drives were followed by short approaches to the green. Airs. Rota was just on, but Aliss Kay was about 10 feet from, the pin. Airs. Kota was short with her putt, but Aliss Kay, -with a glance at the line, ran the putt down to finish the match. She meets Aliss Guy this morning.

The other game in the top half of the draw was that between Aliss Al. Guy (Aranawatu) and Aliss E. Hanson (Hcretaunga), and it proved a great tussle, Aliss Guy winning with a per-, feet 4 on the eighteenth green. The first two holes were halved and Aliss Guy then took the next three in a row with good golf. Aliss Hanson recovered her grip on the game with a perfect 4 into the wind at the sixth (bogey 5). Aliss Guy was down in scratch figures, but that was not good enough and her lead had been reduced to 2 up. The. seventh was halved in scratch figure?, mut Aliss Hanson won the next two with 3’s to 4’s and they were again square at the turn. Aliss Hanson had to play her second from loug grass at the tenth and Aliss Guy. making no mistakes, was 1 up. 'The eleventh was halved, but the Herctaunga player rattled down a long putt for a 2 at Lagoon Hill. Ti Ti’s was w r on by Aliss Guy, who laid a long approach dead. Aliss Hanson had played two nice woods, but her third drifted into a bunker. Both approaches were off the line a bit going to Kraal, Aliss Guy being short and Aliss Hanson pin high in the bunker. Aliss Guy approached to within 14 feet of the pin and ran down the putt for a win in 4 to 5. She was 2 up with 4 holes to play, but she failed to get her tec shot away at Barraud’s and Miss Hanson, who was 4 feet away from the pin with her third, own with an easy 5. The sixteenth was slap into tho wind and Aliss Hanson approached to the green and ran down a 12-footer for a win with a birdie 4. They were square with two holes to play. The next was halved in 4. Going to the home hole, the drives were well down the fairway. Aliss Guy was nicely on with her second, but Aliss Hanson failed to reach ! the green from a cuppy lie, and Miss Guy won the hole with a nice 4 to 5 and the match, 1 up. Mrs. D. Stout, of Hcretaunga, was much too steady for Aliss I. Seifert, the game ending on the fourteenth green, the Feilding player having failed to reproduce, the form she showed in tho morning when she defeated Airs. Collinson 2 and 1. Airs. Stout took some time to settle down to her game, but once she did, she played well down to her handicap. At the turn she held the commanding lead of 3 up and she went on to clinch the match 5 and 4. Aliss Seifert, who is practically a newcomer to the game, played good golf coming in, but the match was always in Airs. Stout’s keeping. Aliss Bessie Gaisford and Aliss C. Wilson, of Bulls, figured in the other championship match, and Aliss Wilson took Aliss Gaisford to the seventeenth green before finality was reached. It was level pegging until after the seventh, but Aliss Gaisford found bunk-, ers at the eighth and ninth and was 2 down at the turn. She had evened the score at Land’s End and was 1 up after Ti Ti’s. From that on Aliss Wilson fought doggedly and did well to keep the game alive as long as she did. The position was all square playing to the eighth. Aliss'Gaisford’s tee shot landed in a bunker and she conceded the hole.. At the ninth she found herself in another and took 4. Aliss Wilson was making few mistakes and a tee shot to the green and 2 putts gave her a lead of 2 at the turn. Aliss Wilson failed to find the green with her

second at the tenth and Aliss Gaisford, who played a safo approach from tho left of the fairway, won in 4to 5. She recorded a nice 5 to 6 at Land’s End and they were square. The twelfth was halved in easy 4’s, but at Ti Ti’s, where Aliss AVilson topped her drive into the rough, Aliss Gaisford played two magnificent woods to the edge of the green, and an easy 5 made her 1 up with 5 to play. Both drove well at Barraud’s. Aliss Wilson’s second was short and Aliss Gaisford’s just through the green, the hole being halved in 5. Aliss Gaisford was just short of tho green with, her second at the sixteenth, which she won in 5 to G to become dormy two. Aliss Gaisford covered the pin with a very long drive at the seventeenth, the ball finishing well past the bunker. Aliss Wilson was past the pin with her approach and Aliss Gaisford short, and the hole was halved in 4’s, Aliss Gaisford winning 2 and 1. Her opponent in the semi-final will be Airs. Stout. Surprise Of The Day. One of the surprises of the day was the defeat of Airs. H. C. Colliuson by the young Feilding player, Aliss I. Seifert. Airs. Colliuson had established a lead of two with eight holes played but Aliss Seifert then took charge and had squared the match again at Lagoon Hill. At Barraud’s she had established a lead of 2 up with three to play. Airs. Collinson got one back at the sixteenth, where she was down in an easy 5, Miss Seifert having found a bunker. Aliss Seifert was I up and the match ended on the seventeenth green, where Mrs. Collinson required three putts after they had reached the green with their seconds. DRAW FOR TO-DAY. Following are the starting times and draw for to-day:— Bogey Competition. n.m. 7.5 G: Airs. Ekstedt and Mrs. J. F. Field. S. 00: Airs. J. Fisher and Airs. J. Kirk. 8.04: Airs. H. AlcDowell and Airs. K. V. Stewart. S.OS: Airs. -J. J. Stevenson and Airs. J. V. Stevens. 5.12: Airs. J. C. Young and Aliss Kcarins. 5.16: Airs. K. H. Billcns and, Aliss J. Spring. 8.20: Airs. L. Spceckley and Aliss Jepson. 8.2-1: Aliss E. West and Airs. Dorrington. SYS: Airs. T. E. Farr and Aliss I. Seifert. 8.32: Aliss N. Nash and Aliss Rita . Thomson. S.3G: Aliss M. Roberts and Airs. E. A. Blain. Consolation Handicap, 9.00: Airs. J. Graham and Airs. Al. Gabriel. 9.05: Airs. A. J. Kcaney and Aliss Wanklyn. Ekstedt Handicap. 9.10: Aliss Brinton Smith and Airs. Jarvis. 9.15: Airs. Broderick and Aliss G. van Asch. Championship. 9.25: Aliss Oliver Kay and Aliss AL Guy. 9.30: Aliss B. Gaisford and Airs. D. Stout. Bogey (Continued). 9.40: Aliss E. Bell and Aliss E. Hanson. 9.44: Mrs. J. Stanford and Aliss Harkness. 0.48: Airs. Alan Alarshall and Airs. Kota. 9.52: Aliss AL McKenzie and Aliss Porrett. 9.56: Aliss E. Redwood and Airs. E. K. Alonteitii. 10.00: Airs. E. Fair and Airs. A. AlcKegg. 10.04: Airs. McDoncll and Airs. Alaekay. 10. OS: Aliss Amoii and Airs. AlcKclvie. 10.12: Aliss N. Grace and Aliss C. Wilson. 10.16: Aliss Wilkinson and Aliss Dalglcish. 10.20: Airs. H. Collinson and Airs. Jennings. 10.21: Airs. Harding and Aliss Lucas. 10.28: Aliss Ormond and Airs. Ferguson. 10.32: Airs. Lawson and Airs. C. C. Walker. 10.36: Airs D. Williams and Airs. Raven. 10.40: Airs. Buxton and Aliss Handley. 10.44: Airs. E. Y. Brooker and Airs. N. Taylor. 10.48: Airs. Reedy and Airs. D. Reid. 10.52: Airs. Hunter and Airs. Little. 10.56: Aliss Jean Cousins and Airs. C. G. Aloore. 11.00: Ah-s. A. C. Feast and Aliss E. Barton. 11.01: Airs. Duncan Guy and Airs. S. K. Siddells. 11.08: Airs. Colquhoun and Airs. Anslis. 11.12: Airs. Oram and Airs. T. Green. Afternoon. 1.10: Final Consolation Handicap 1.20: Final Ekstedt Cup. 1.30: Final Championship. MANAWATU CLUB. The October Bogey Handicap will be played at Hokowhitu to-morrow. Starting will bo from Ist. ana ilth. tees from 12.30 in order or the times reserved.