GOLF TOURISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

GOLF TOURISTS.

Australian Professionals on

Way to America.

Efforts to complete the £1000 estimated to be necessary for the Victorian share of the professional- tour of America, upon which Ted and George Xaismith embarked from Melbourne recently, are to be continued, writes J. M. billon.

The Xaismiths, with Lou Kelly, Sam Richardson, "Billy" Bolger and Joe Cohen, of New South Wales, left Sydney on the Monterey on December 17. They will arrive in Los Angeles on December 31, after playing in Honolulu on the way over.

According to the programme of winter series open meetings, as set out in the San Francisco ''Examiner" of October 27, which announced that the misunderstanding between the California Association and the P.O.A. of America, had been been amicably settled, the principal events in that State will be: December 27-30, Passadena, 400 dollars open; January 4-0, Los Angeles, 5000 dollars open; January 10-13, Riverside, 3000 dollars open; January 15-19, San Diego, 3000 dollars open; January 24-20, Sacramento, 3000 dollars open; 'February 1-3, San Francisco, 4500 dollars match play; February 5-7, Santa Catalina, 5000 dollars open. Thence the army of crack golfers will go to Florida and other States, and will compete in events in Mexico, including a notable one at Agua Caliente.

The Australian tourists may on the way back play a series of games in Japan.