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♦ R. H. GLADING ADMITTED TO P.G.A. (PA.) AUCKLAND, February 28. The New Zealand open golf champion cf 1946 and 1947, and runner-up in the amateur championship last year, R. H. Glading, has been accepted as a member of the Professional Golfers’ Association without being required to fulfil the normal requirement of six months’ preliminary service. Glading’s application was accepted immediately because of club-making and other duties which he performed while employed as a youth by G. W. Melvin, the Hamilton professional. Glading will now be eligible to compete as a professional in the annual Victory tournament at the Titirangi club’s course from May 11 to 14. He also intends to compete in a tournament to be promoted at the Kensington course, Sydney, from March 31 to April 2, in which the largest amount of prize-money ever offered in Australian golf, £2500, will be put up ~for competition. . , Glading will take up his appointment as professional and assistant-secretary to the Christchurch Golf Club on April 24.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25741, 1 March 1949, Page 6
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