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LACEY BEATS GOLF RECORD

BY 4 STROKES

ROUND OF 67 AT WEST BYFLEET

BRILLIANT PLAY

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THE CHINA MAIL DECEMBER 24, 1987.

TOMMY MARTIN

KNOCKED OUT IN ASSORTED

FIRST ROUND

London, November 23. Heinz Lazek, of Austria (13st 5lb), mock- ed out Tommy Martin (12st- 6ab), the coloured Deptford boxer, in the first round at the National Sport- player ling Club tournament at Earl's Court compiled a last night, writes Peter Lawless. hig short game

A perfectly timed left hook sent Martin down for a count of eight Lacey's chipping, delightfully very early in the proceedings. He (By GEORGE GREENWOOD) executed and perfectly conceived, was muzzy when he got to his feet was backed up by glorious putting land endeavoured to use the ring London, November 19.

Not once in the round did he fail to survive the round. But before Arthur Lacey, of the Berkshire at a holable putt.

he could make the full circuit an- club, a Ryder Cup player, won the The first hole was indicative of other left hook sent him down for Guildford Alliance 18-holes stroke Lacey's play and mood. A drive the full count and more the tournament with a remarkable and a mashie-niblick shot a yard whole fight lasting one and a half round of 67 at West Byfleet yes- from the flag gave him what might minutes. Martin is a clever defen- terday. He also broke the course be termed an “inspirational 5.sive boxer, fast and elusive, but hef record, standing in the name of Despite the adventure in a bush at met his master in this storming Aus- J. Field, by as many as four the 5th he chipped out, pitched the trian strokes.

next shot on to the green, and On a day of drizzling rain and holed the putt for a 4. a piercingly cold wind, this was Though Lacey out his drive to technique will suffice. At the an astonishingly good effort, and, the ninth he chipped to within five short 17th his tee shot was cut to moreover, it was characteristic yards and holed the putt for s 3. glory, but a chip and a putt pro- of the player. Lacey has made 2 And so the process went on.duced the necessary 3. The figures reputation as one of the big hit Bunkered with the second shot to of Lacey's record-breaking round ters of the game who is not afraid the tenth, Lacey's recovery to take reasonable risks.

outside the 20 yards” limit When he really lets go there are the pin, the ball stopping an inch few players in the world who can from the hole. outdrive him. The Americans, Jimmy Thomson and Sam Snead, may do so, but I know of no British player who can give Lacey a yard

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when he is putting everything into the shot and connecting with the middle of the clubhead.

AMAZING SHOTS Wearing mackintosh clothing, an extra jersey and with hands enveloped in mittens, the occasion

was not one for mighty hitting. And yet Lacey hit some amazing shots.

One of them was at the second-- downwind it was true-the drive finishing in a bunker close to the green. This shot measured-some- thing in the neighbourhood of 320 yards.

At the long seventh, where the wind was again helping, he was five yards 'short of the green with two full-blooded wooden

club shots.

BEST EFFORT

But easily the best effort was reserved for the 18th, played in the teeth of the wind. Of all the com- petitors, Lacey and W. J. Cox were. the only two to reach the green in two shots.

Bach took a driver for the second, but while Cox only just scrambled on Lacey, lashing out with great fury, was through the green and in a bunker beyond. -I did not think the shot was possible, and neither did Lacey, but, 28 he explained, “Anything is possible when the timing is right and con- fidence is unimpaired.”

THE FAULTY SHOTS However, not all Lacey's shots were of the immaculate type, far from it. A drive at the dog-legged fifth, obviously intended to reach the green, finished in the middle of a bush on the right.

There was his drive at the eighth, a hole at which a player - the Lacey stamp expects to be ting for a 3. Again the shot fo

a clump of bushes on the right, and as the ball could not be found he had to be content

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bit Out: 3 4 4 3 4 4 5 5 335 In 4 3 3 3 4 4 4 3 4-32 Reckoned on the basis of bogey, Lacey's 67 included one eagle and

One more instance of escape by means of a remarkable short game six birdies.

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