Golf In A “Miner’s Helmet”
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON. July 24. “Golf widows” who moan when the husbands spend the whole week-end on the links don’t know how fortunate they are, says the ‘‘Daily Herald.” American wives, it points out, are facing a much worse hazard—floodlit golf. “It is the biggest thing in sport for years and there are now’ 200 new courses all over
America in which a million men trudge determinedly up midnight fairways. “Some golf clubs have installed floodlights on their ordinary courses and have thus added 30 playing hours weekly. “The thing is perpetrated by placing batteries of lights 40ft high and 25yds apart along fairways. Naturally the bulbs have to be made of unbreakable glass. The Gen-
eral Electric Company, which pioneered night golf, says it costs about £50.000 to floodlight an 18-hole course. “The chief snag at present is trying to find a ball when it veers off into the darkness of the woods, so now they are experimenting with a luminous ball. “They are also working on a golfing hat with a light in the peak—a bit like a miner's helmet.’*
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30192, 25 July 1963, Page 9
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