The Archive · 1939

Week-end Fixtures

The fixtures are Playing in a cold wind Dwyer won the Shanghai Golf Club Championship over the Seekingjao Course on Sunday by 4 and 2, It was a close match and went to 34th green. In the morning MacDonald was 2 up at the 9th, Dwyer was fortunate at the 2nd where he laid a stymie and in attempting to negotiate it MacDonald holed his opponents ball.

MacDonald had lost his ativantage at the 16th where the match was all square and the position was unchanged at the end of the morning round, In the afternoon Dwyer got off to a good start winning the first three holes and he turned 2 up, At the 10th MacDonald was laid a stymie and the hole was halved as were the 11th, 12th, 13th and Mth, MacDonald met his downfall at the 38rd hole where his tee shot lodged in the frame-work of the wooden bridge over the water, This cost him the hole—he lost the 34th and the match, In the "B" Class final Jourdin had no. difficulty in defeating O. F. Brooks, The latter never settled down and lost by the wide margin of 11 up and ten to play.

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