"Borrowed Timers" Golf Club

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 9

"Borrowed Timers" Golf Club

A GROUP of golfers who regard the activities of the Veterans' Association as the frolics ot youngsters will stage its first tournament at Shirley on February 19. This is the Borrowed Timers’ Golf Club, and it is confined to those over 70 years of age. It is going to be a good day for the golfers, no matter what the weather may choose to do. It is a tournament so replete with scratch and handicap events that it seems, to the outsider at least, that nearly everyone will win something. There will be some good golf, too. One of the joint secretaries for the event is Mr

J. A. Clements, three times open champion of New Zealand, and still capable of get-

ting round in fewer strokes than his years. The patron is Mr B. B. Wood, twice national amateur champion, and still playing well The other secretary is one of the most popular and respected figures m Christchurch golf, Mr H. R. Blair. There are events for men and women players, and plenty of them—competitions for the longest drive, the best approach, the best bunker shot, the best round of the putting green, as well as flights, handicap and scratch events in the various grades. Only 10 holes will be played. Mr Wood will give a brief address after the matches have been completed, and prizes will be presented by Mrs T. Hyde, who has been elected the club's mascot. Other members of the Christchurch Ladies’ Golf Club have volunteered for spotting duties and will no doubt be

of considerable assistance. Perhape the most distinctive’feature of the tournament, however, win be the exchange of reminiscence at the nineteenth hole. A tape recording of the discussions would, in all probability, provide a complete and colourful history of New Zealand golf.