Golfer Hall
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Holes In One
New Guinea took all the four gold medals in the Games golf.
Seventy-two holes were to be played at the Lae course but two
days’ play—36 holes—were not
played owing to heavy rains.
Competition among the entrants — NG, French Polynesia, Fiji, BSIP, New Hebrides and Fiji—was closer in the men’s individual event than the women’s individual or the two team events.
Goroka’s John Wilkinson won with a 74 and a 71 for 145, three strokes better than Lae’s John Keating, who had a 75 and a 73 for 148. Fiji’s R. Ali won the bronze with a total of 151.
Miss Jock Munden of Lae easily won the women’s 36 holes by 11 strokes from enthusiastic, Mrs. T.
Bres of French Polynesia.
Play was spirited despite constant heavy ground conditions all over the water-logged course. The Solomons’
John Hall even managed a hole in one!
Mrs. Bres and Ned Peckett, both of French Polynesia, were the only Islanders playing—the rest were all Europeans. Hopes are that French Polynesia’s first course, outside Papeete on Tahiti, will be suitable for competition in the ’7l Games.
• Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl from Daru, in the Golf of Papua, Kito Kaida (right) races away to win the women's 400 metres gold medal for P-NG from favoured Fiji veteran Torika Varo (silver). Sauitia Pepit, of P-NG, was third.