GOLF.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 85, 21 January 1935, Page 3

GOLF.

THE ASHBURTON CLUB. A Stableford bogey match was played by members of the Ashburton Goli Club during the week-end. , O Gass won the match with a card of 24—14—38, and L, E. Carter,.with one of 34—3—37, was runner-up. THE GAME IN GERMANY. A NATIONAL PASTIME. t "Golfers may breathe again—evidently golf is a thoroughly Aryan and approved occupation," remarks the miseelianist of the "Manchester Guardian." "It is reported that the German State Director of Sport has given his blessing to the German Golf Association and has decreed that the game is to become a national pastime. It is added that new courses are to be made, that schoolchildren are to be given instruction (which might leave them cured for ever of golf when they grow up), and that the game is to appear in the arrangements for university sport. Unfortunately the message does not say whether "any of the Nazi notables are to assist in making Germany golfconscious. Yet the explosive Goering ought to be capable of some good effects in a really deep and sandy bunker, and if Goebbels addresses the ball as he addresses some of his audiences the result should be some astonishing additions to the folklore of the royal and ancient game. However, golf is undoubtedly progressing in Germany ; it was announced some time ago that army officers wore being encouraged to take the game up on the ground that it was conduct befitting an officer and gentleman, so that it may

yet reach the highest ranks of all. But there are difficulties. The novice must begin among the 'rabbits'—and how could Hitler be given a long handicap ? He would have to be an honorary 'tiger' from the first tee."