THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 26, 1988.
Scots' Golf Championship
FIVE WEST PLAYERS
IN LAST EIGHT
E. D. HAMILTON JUSTI GETS THROUGH
R.H.K.G.C MAN REACHES FOURTH ROUND
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Gullane, July 15.
DUKE GOLFS, BEATS
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
Nice, July 11.
The Duke of Windsor beat Douglas Fairbanks at the nine- teenth in a game of golf at Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice.
Douglas Fairbanks and his wife, the former Lady Ashley, are living at Cap d'Antibes, near the Duke and Duchess. It is believed that they will be guests of the Duke on a yacht cruise next month.
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countant with a Shanghai shipping RUTHERFORD IMPRESSIVE FIVE representatives of the Western, district, firm, and home for his first leave since Rutherford in beating Wilson, of where the Cup has been housed continuously Muirfield greenkeeper, and was himself golf, which counted 38 to the turn and 1932, first beat Harry Anderson, the Blairgowrie, again played impressove for the past seven years, have won their way into beaten by Robert Neil.
The first of these matches involved Keeping a good line in the long game,
a commanding lead of four the last eight of the Scottish Amateur Golf Cham-the man from the Far East in a change and missing his second putt only once, pionship on the Honourable Company's course at all putting attack and counter-attack, losing the tenth and fourteenth,
of bombardments. In this case it was he became 4 up with four to play after Muirfield here to-day.
Anderson was twice stymied on the Hastie, who was dismissed by Dall, eleventh green when he looked THEY ARE E. D. HAMILTON AND ROBERT NEILL, THE being three up, and that was
like defeated Cameron Conn in the morning, the though the latter, assisted the pro- CHAMPION AND RUNNER-UP OF TWO YEARS AGO, WHO turning-point. Hunter finished well. CANNOT BOTH EXPECT THEIR FINALIST ROLE THIS TIME, the morning after taking the first Hastic lost the seventeenth to Dall by Neil beat ex-champion Ken Greig in They were vital in a one-hole defeat. cess by missing two putts of two feet.
SINCE THEY ARE IN THE SAME HALF OF THE DRAW; ALIS-four holes. The St Andrews player putting his second in the rough, and TER M'LEOD, INTERNATIONALIST AND TWICE WINNER OF was hitting a long ball, but not always his next through the green, and the THE EDEN TOURNAMENT; DONALD CAMERON, AND R. C. to the right place.
West man, on the lead, laid a very ne M. DAL, BROTHER OF THE TENNENT CUP WINNER OF LAST Macdonald, both of St Andrews, had pin for a half, after being bunkered.
Dowie, the Walker Cup trialist, and cessary chip two feet from the last to play one of those local matches that The following are the day'a are never comfortable in a champion-results:- ship. Dowie was by no means in his eariler form of the week; he twice missed chances of the hole with his putting on the way out, and then in effect gave the match away to a steadi- er opponent by getting off the beaten track with his woods at the eighth, ninth, and eleventh holes. All three holes went in a deadly 'row, and Mac donald rounded off his victory by hol- ding a chip at the fifteenth, to win by 4 and 3. The ex-Boy Champion was afterwards beaten by Cameron..
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David S. Wemyss, the young teenth green, and in the swiftest Turnhouse golfer, who was pro-
possible right-about he was now one down. moted to the Scottish team last year, is Edinburgh's only direct representative left, though R. W. Peattie, who has been most pro- minently identified with Fife, is Edinburgh golfer by adoption, for he is an insurance to win. official in the city.
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Hamilton played a match-winning spoon stroke at the long seventeenth which finished within six yards of the flag. Both hooked at the eighteenth, but Hamilton was better off with a bunker recovery than Anderson from the thick rough, and had difficulty in getting the necessary half
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M'LEOD HARD PRESSED The other member of the last eight M'Leod had a closer call than Hamil- is Robert Rutherford, a London stockton, for Flockhart, his afternoon op- broker, and brother of the well-known ponent, took the vendetta for his fel- golfing minister, who has come North low-Watsonian, George Roberts, golf for this event several times in recent years.
The East v. West issue will be put to the test straightaway to-morrow, when Wemyss meets Hamilton and Peattle plays M'Leod. Play will begin at 10 am.
CAMERON STILL ON THE MARCH
and Rugby internationalist, beaten by Cameron first defeated K. G. Patrick M'Leod in the morning at the nine-last year's runner-up, who, turning teenth hole. Roberts, after an early three down to his opponent's, 86, after lead, made a suicidal mistake, not at stymying himself and losing the eighth, all characteristic, at the seventeenth. made three, mistakes on the way, in With a glorious spoon stroke laid five any one of which might have been de yards from the flag and M'Leod cisive. He used a prodigal putter, CHEERY GOLIATH BEATEN struggling after a half-hit iron stroke, for, missing putts of under a yard at Hamilton, who is his fighting self the Edinburgh player seemed booked the eleventh had twelfth holes, he got only halves where he had the holes at again after his disappointing play in for the lead at the crucial time.
his mercy. But M'Leod made one putt do, a
These were bad enough, the Walker Cup trials, had a narrow enough squeeze through to-night. All whopping 15 yards-one, and Roberts and they are never good for any man's took three putts and actually lost the game, but he crowned his chapter of the other matches were over some
That turn-up came like a errors at the fourteenth. time before we were able, after a last-hole.
Cameron, whose golf had gone green decision, to jot Hamilton down thunderclap. among the winners.
Roberts was then bunkered in front ragged, mishit his second, and then His opponent
into & bunker. was Ian Anderson, the 23-years-old of the eighteenth green, and lost by socketted his next Dunfermline glant, six feet high, and two holes. Flockhart went nobly after Patrick got into the same bunker with turning the scale at 18 stones. Hamil- his man in the afternoon, for he was a stroke to spare, but, after getting He put a out, he completely stymied himself, and ton is one of the smallest players in three down at the tenth. first-class golf.
great second as good as dead at the again halved a hole when all the odds That sort of It was, therefore, a David-Goliath twelfth, after winning the eleventh, were on his winning it. golf story, and though it ended again so that there was only one hole be pitcher thus went to the well too often,
The finish was in and Cameron won by 3 and 2. in favour of David, it was a cheery, tween the pair.
Macdonald threw away four chances
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chubby Goliath who let a great chance terms of really good and exciting golf to win the first half dozen holes again- The next five holes were halved in to win slip through his fingers,
David's sling work was not quite 3 4 4 3 4-the strictly right figures. st Cameron by missing shortish putts, were unforgiving up to specification in the late stages Flockhart had a niblick pitch from a and the fates of the match, which contrasted with bunker face and one putt for his half Cameron, playing steadily, collected his competent wipe up of the morn at the sixteenth, and he got the match four holes in a row from the seventh, both and then holed a five yards putt for a ing, when he was too good for Allan even at the eighteenth, where
A half at the Stevenson. Hamilton, who offered few drove into the
bunker, and 2 at the thirteenth.
West next hole was enough for the The loopholes, cast a very effective stone M'Leod took two to get out.. in the form of a ten-foot putt to bo West player had a lovely spoon stroke player. come 4 up, and missed a short one to three yards from the nineteenth flag, end the matchTM at the fourteenth, and Flockhart's fine effort faded out where he was still 4 up. Stevenson with a topped second. having got a "life," did two good Sa after that, but Hamilton still won by 2 and 1.
THE HOPE OF EDINBURGH Wemyss, after beating D:C. Murray, a fellow-Lothians campaigner, was too straight and steady for the long-hitting Fender, of North Berwick, in the aí ternoon. Fender missed a short putt
TWO SWIFT CHANGES` It looked odds of a field gun to a sling when Hamilton stood three up with eight to play against Anderson to win the third, but it was not there in the afternoon, especially as he had his trouble was. He too often drove settled into his stride again after himself into the rough, and, heroic
THIRD ROUND
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B. Wight (Glencorse) beat J. R. W. Adamson (Royal Burgess), 4 and 8.
R. W. Peattie (Edinburg Insurance beat A. C. Glennie (Romford), 4 and 8. A. S. Flockhart (Royal Burgess) beat J. W. Turnbull (Murrayfield), 8 and 1.
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A. E. M'Leod (Old Ranfurly) beat G. Roberts (Craigmillar Park), two holes.
R. R. Rutherford (Royal Wim- bledon) beat E. C. Hunter (Royal Bur- gess), 2 and 1.
J. Wilson (Blairgowrie) beat J. Gray (Cambuslang), 8 and 8.72
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J. G. Campbell. (Kilmacolm), 8 and 1. I. Hastie (Murrayfield) beat J. C. Conn (Hawick), one hole.
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R. Neil (East Renfrew) beat Greig (St. Andrews), 4 and 8. **
F. D. Hunter (Royal Hong-Kong) beat H. Anderson (Dirleton Castle), one hole,
I. S. Macdonald (St Andrews) beat A. Dowie (St. Andrews), 4 and 3.
D. Cameron (Kirkintilloch) beat K. G. Patrick (Stirling), 3 and 2
J. Fender (Bass Rock) beat R. Mon- tgomerie (Cambuslang), 2 and 1.
D. S. Wemyss (Turnhouse) beat D. C. Murray (Duddingston), 4 and 3. E. D. Hamilton (Ralston) beat Stevenson (Prestwick St Nicholas), and 1.
Ian Anderson (Dunfermline). beat W. L. Dale. (Dunfermline), 5 and 4.
FOURTH ROUND
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Peattie beat Wight, 2 and 1. M'Leod beat Flockhart, at nine-
Rutherford beat Wilson, 4 and 3. Dall beat Hastie, one hole. Neill beat Hunter, 8 and 2. Cameron_beat Macdonald, 5 and 4. Wemyss beat Fender, 4 and 2. Hamilton beat Anderson, one hole,
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