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Australia Thrashes Combined

Like the New Zealand team in individual matches in the centennial golf tournament in Auckland, the Nelson-Marlborough players were no match for the Australian side, except for Combined's No.5, Wayne Maw, who beat Noel Ratcliffe two and one, and Kelvin Gardiner, Combined's No.1, who had a keen tussle with Terry Gale and Graeme Daines; the local players fared badly. Australia won the encounter 5-1.

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Newcomer to representative golf, Peter McMahon, Nelson, lost three and one to Peter Bennett

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Australia's Peter Bennett watches the result of his drive

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Noel Ratcliffe, Australia, lost to Wayne Maw, two and one

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Graeme Daines, Marlborough, puts some effort into this shot. Daines had a tough contest with an in-form Kevin Donohue and lost by one hole

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Among the keen spectators were Les Graham (Australian Golf Union rep), Eric Lusk (Australian team manager), Reg Ford (district co-selector) and Don Harborne (Nelson Golf Club head greenkeeper)

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Wayne Maw was the only Combined player to win his match

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Graeme Lummis did not have a happy day. Here he scoops a shot from a bunker at the sixth

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Bill Britten, Australia, watches the result of his putt

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This will be one event Murray Gyde, Nelson, will want to forget. He had a bad day, to lose seven and six to Britten

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Combined's No. 1 Kelvin Gardiner tees off at the seventh

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Again Lummis is in a bit of bother. Ploughing sand and grass, along with the ball, he recovers after hitting a large mound on the seventh

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Terry Gale, Australia, lines up a putt