The golfing breed of PNG

They seem to breed good golfers n Papua New Guinea. As in 1969 ind 1971, her golfers cleared the )oard of gold medals, taking the two ndividual events and the two team vents.

No doubt Papua New Guinea is hankful golf was introduced into the James programme in 1969. With uch golfing calibre, PNG can almost uarantee she will have several golds yen before the Games start. J. Wil inson and Mrs J. M. Munden domi ated the golf in 1969/71 but new ames went into the gold list at iuam.

Playing under atrocious conditions, ad rained off several times, John eating, of Lae, brought off a sur rise win. He had been trailing in mrth place but in the final round ; shot a one over par 73 to win

from his team mates, Greg Fennell and Phil Frame. He had six strokes on Fennell and seven on Frame. Gus Gogue, of Guam, led for the first three rounds but faded away under pressure from the PNG golfers.

Guam’s women champion, who rejoices in the name of Jake King, put up a good fight against PNG newcomer Ismay Trevena but Mrs Trevena took the gold with 357 strokes against Mrs King’s 359.

PNG men’s team, John Keating, Greg Fennell and Phil Frame took all three medals in the individual and, with James Wu making the fourth man in the team event, PNG men took the gold with Guam second and Fiji third.

Fiji s Rahmat Ali, the dominion’s open champion, was fancied for a medal but he was well down the list.