REMARKABLE GOLF FEATS.
I was the harder hit, since both fell to the ' gTound together. A correspondent sends us .an account of what is perhaps the strangest golfing feat on record. On a northern links a player lately made a drive, and, owing to a miscalculation, the ball struck a boulder and bounded on to the roof of a cottage situated on the links, finally lodging behind the chimney. The player, being of the pertinacious sort, climbed on« to the roof, and, sitting astride it, took careful aim, driving the ball from its hiding place, and thereby finishing a long hole in *ix strokes.—Englisch exchange.
To the achieving of remarkable feats in golf there is no end. The other day a modest-looking Scotsman—for some Scotsmen can look modest even when they are playing golf—stepped up with a driver and made a fine drive over a bunker on a golf course near London, the ball going straight into the hole. The other day a sparrow happened to be in full flight across a golf course in the Midlands just as a player had sent his ball on a long drive. The bird and the ball came in contact in mid-career; and it is difficult to determine which
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 173, 22 July 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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